Also called the Mur Island Medjimurski, Murakoz and the Murakosi, the Mura was once quite a popular working horse in Hungary, however today their numbers are very low.
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Developed around the start of the 20th century primarily in southern Hungary near the river Mura. Created by crossing native Hungarian mares with Percheron<\/a>, Ardennais<\/a>, Noriker<\/a> and Hungarian Half-bred stallions. <\/p>\n The second World War was particularly hard on this breed and their numbers becomes dangerously low. Belgian Ardennes<\/a> stallions were introduced in an attempt to preserve the few pure numbers left. <\/p>\n There are two recognized types within the breed, one slightly taller and more robust and the other smaller with more refined conformation. <\/p>\n Average height 16 hands<\/p>\n Head is long and heavy with a slightly convex profile chestnut<\/a> with flaxen<\/a> mane & tail | grey<\/a> | bay<\/a> | black<\/a><\/p>\n Stable and kind Agriculture Intro Also called the Mur Island Medjimurski, Murakoz and the Murakosi, the Mura was once quite a popular working horse in Hungary, however today their numbers are very low.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7601,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[5,4,11,42,15],"class_list":["post-885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hungary","tag-bay","tag-black","tag-chestnut","tag-flaxen","tag-grey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885","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=885"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10207,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885\/revisions\/10207"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Features<\/h3>\n
Physique<\/h3>\n
\nEyes are large and expressive
\nEars are long
\nNeck is short, muscular and crested
\nBack is short and broad
\nLegs are short and sturdy with large, tough joints
\nFeet are round and well shaped<\/p>\nTraditional Colors<\/h3>\n
Temperament<\/h3>\n
\nIntelligent and docile<\/p>\nUse<\/h3>\n
\nTourism<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"