{"id":8145,"date":"2025-01-24T13:09:12","date_gmt":"2025-01-24T13:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/?p=8145"},"modified":"2025-09-19T21:05:50","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T21:05:50","slug":"pakistani-mountain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/pakistani-mountain","title":{"rendered":"Pakistani Mountain Horse"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Intro<\/h3>\n<p>Admittedly this is not a recognized breed, in fact there isn&#8217;t really any information about them.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>Origins<\/h3>\n<p>In our searches for breed examples in Pakistan, we found many images of a mountain pony that is obviously important to the people who raise it. In fact, they look healthier than most of the lighter riding horse examples that we found. This is a small horse, more pony in stature but closer to a small horse in conformation. They are not particularly handsome animals, but distinct for their &#8216;normal&#8217; ears in a land of extreme horse ear shapes and tied together by the mountains they inhabit.<\/p>\n<p>They could be a type of <a href=\"\/breeds\/makra\">Makra Horse<\/a>, however they don&#8217;t seem to carry the same <a href=\"\/colors\/white-patterns\/pinto\">pinto<\/a> type <a href=\"\/colors\/white-markings\">white markings<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Example Notes<\/h3>\n<p>Likely related to animals from India or Nepal, they show Asian pony and saddle horse influence. Not to mention the people with these animals look so happy and handsome that we had to share them. As we have no real information to go on, we&#8217;ve taken a stab at describing them (with a little help from ponies of neighboring nations). The examples we&#8217;ve selected are all over the place in terms of conformation (one in particular is more clearly a pony), but they show that there are a variety of interesting bloodlines in the country that deserve mention. <\/p>\n<h3>Features<\/h3>\n<p>Average height 14 hands<\/p>\n<h3>Physique<\/h3>\n<p>Head is light with a straight or slightly convex profile<br \/>\nNeck is thin<br \/>\nChest is deep<br \/>\nLegs are thin and strong<br \/>\nHooves are hard<\/p>\n<h3>Traditional Colors<\/h3>\n<p>Solid <a href=\"\/colors\">colors<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Temperament<\/h3>\n<p>Spirited and intelligent<br \/>\nSurefooted and hardworking<\/p>\n<h3>Use<\/h3>\n<p>Racing<br \/>\nRiding<br \/>\nTransport<br \/>\nPack animal<\/p>\n<h3>More Images<\/h3>\n<div class=\"grid-two\">\n<div class=\"grid-two-one\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/pakistan-mountain-horse-2.webp\" alt=\"Pakistani Mountain Horse\" load=\"lazy\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"grid-two-two\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/pakistan-mountain-horse-3.webp\" alt=\"Pakistani Mountain Horse\" load=\"lazy\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"grid-two\">\n<div class=\"grid-two-one\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/pakistan-mountain-horse-4.webp\" alt=\"Pakistani Mountain Horse\" load=\"lazy\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"grid-two-two\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/pakistan-mountain-horse-5.webp\" alt=\"Pakistani Mountain Horse\" load=\"lazy\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h3>Video<\/h3>\n<div class=\"flex-video widescreen\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dhfEYzVBPuc?si=psRQ_j2ObVO9cmDs\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class=\"flex-video widescreen\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xLQXE3utW18?si=MNgt4M_w69F3yrZX\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intro Admittedly this is not a recognized breed, in fact there isn&#8217;t really any information about them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8147,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-8145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan","tag-solid-colors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8145"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9823,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8145\/revisions\/9823"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}