{"id":8423,"date":"2025-01-30T16:02:46","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T16:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/?p=8423"},"modified":"2025-01-30T16:02:46","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T16:02:46","slug":"soviet-heavy-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/soviet-heavy-draft","title":{"rendered":"Soviet Heavy Draft Horse"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Intro<\/h3>\n<p>The Soviet Heavy Draft is a breed of Russian heavy draft horse with an outdated title. It&#8217;s likely they kept the name to distinguish them from the <a href=\"\/breeds\/russian-heavy-draft\">Russian Heavy Draft<\/a> which was developed independently.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>Origins<\/h3>\n<p>This breed was developed in the former Soviet Union specifically for heavy agricultural work. Established with <a href=\"\/breeds\/belgian-draft\">Brabant<\/a> animals crossed with a variety of European draft breeds, they were formally recognized as a breed in 1952. <\/p>\n<h3>Features<\/h3>\n<p>Average height 15.7-16 hands<\/p>\n<h3>Physique<\/h3>\n<p>Head has a straight or slightly convex profile<br \/>\nNeck is short<br \/>\nChest is wide and muscular<br \/>\nBack is wide<br \/>\nCroup is sloping<br \/>\nBelly is rounded<br \/>\nLegs are short and sturdy<br \/>\nHooves are broad and round<\/p>\n<h3>Traditional Colors<\/h3>\n<p>Generally <a href=\"\/colors\/base\/chestnut\">chestnut<\/a> | <a href=\"\/colors\/modifiers\/brown\">brown<\/a> or <a href=\"\/colors\/modifiers\/bay\">bay<\/a> <\/p>\n<h3>Temperament<\/h3>\n<p>Calm and tractable<\/p>\n<h3>Use<\/h3>\n<p>Draft work<br \/>\nAgriculture<br \/>\nMeat production<br \/>\nMilk<\/p>\n<h3>Video<\/h3>\n<div class=\"flex-video widescreen\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4g-BUVZine4?si=Ds3_By57mItn1Oqe\" 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\/UftAUUaL_GM?si=6DawSgQao4T2jQZx\" 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 The Soviet Heavy Draft is a breed of Russian heavy draft horse with an outdated title. It&#8217;s likely they kept the name to distinguish them from the Russian Heavy Draft which was developed independently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8424,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[5,11,15],"class_list":["post-8423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-russia","tag-bay","tag-chestnut","tag-grey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8423","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=8423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8425,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8423\/revisions\/8425"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}