{"id":847,"date":"2010-08-09T12:35:34","date_gmt":"2010-08-09T12:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theequinest.com\/breeds\/?p=847"},"modified":"2025-01-09T12:56:56","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T12:56:56","slug":"megrel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/megrel","title":{"rendered":"Megrel Horse"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Intro<\/h3>\n<p>Also called the Megrelakaya and Mingrelian, the Megrel breed is bred in the region of Kolchida in western Georgia and they are the smallest of the Caucasian horses.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>Origins<\/h3>\n<p>Perhaps the most ancient of the Caucasian horses as well, they are direct descendants of the ancient Kolchida horse. This high moisture lowland of Georgia&#8217;s Black Sea Coast has been known for breeding great horseflesh since the 12th century. <\/p>\n<p>More recently attempts have been made to create a larger animal using these hardy and adaptable bloodlines. However crosses have been largely unsuccessful as the Megrel characteristics tend to be dominant. <\/p>\n<h3>Features<\/h3>\n<p>Average height 112.2 hands<\/p>\n<h3>Physique<\/h3>\n<p>Head is large with a straight profile<br \/>\nEyes tend to be small<br \/>\nNeck is short and thick<br \/>\nBack is straight<br \/>\nLegs are long and strong &#8211; hind legs can be cow hocked<br \/>\nHooves are well shaped and hard<\/p>\n<h3>Traditional Colors<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"\/colors\/base\/black\">black<\/a> | <a href=\"\/colors\/modifiers\/greying\">grey<\/a> | <a href=\"\/colors\/modifiers\/bay\">bay<\/a> | <a href=\"\/colors\/modifiers\/brown\">brown<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Use<\/h3>\n<p>Pack horse<br \/>\nRiding horse<br \/>\nAgriculture<\/p>\n<div class=\"grid-two\">\n<div class=\"grid-two-one\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/megrel-horse-1.webp\" alt=\"Megrel Horse\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"grid-two-two\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/megrel-horse-2.webp\" alt=\"Megrel Horse\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"grid-two\">\n<div class=\"grid-two-one\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/megrel-horse-3.webp\" alt=\"Megrel Horse\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"grid-two-two\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intro Also called the Megrelakaya and Mingrelian, the Megrel breed is bred in the region of Kolchida in western Georgia and they are the smallest of the Caucasian horses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4753,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[5,4,118,15],"class_list":["post-847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-georgia","tag-bay","tag-black","tag-brown","tag-grey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847","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=847"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7329,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847\/revisions\/7329"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}