{"id":8889,"date":"2025-02-12T17:56:29","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T17:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/?p=8889"},"modified":"2025-02-12T17:56:29","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T17:56:29","slug":"new-olexandrian-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/new-olexandrian-draft","title":{"rendered":"New Olexandrian Heavy Draft Horse"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Intro<\/h3>\n<p>The New Olexandrian Draft is not particularly new anymore and come from a base of Western European cart horses crossed with local mares.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>Origins<\/h3>\n<p>Breeding began in the mid 19th century when heavier stallions were imported into the Poltava region. These were mainly <a href=\"\/breeds\/belgian-ardennes\">Belgian Ardennes<\/a>, but there was also some <a href=\"\/breeds\/belgian-draft\">Belgian Draft<\/a> and <a href=\"\/breeds\/percheron\">Percheron<\/a> influence. They were crossed with local mares of various bloodlines.<\/p>\n<p>Notably, the New Alexandrian is used to improve other breeds and adding their genetics routinely helps smaller breeds produce larger and stronger animals. They were named for the New Olexandria Village where the stud was located. <\/p>\n<p>According to the DAD-IS this breed is critical ans as of 2022 there were only 86 left.<\/p>\n<h3>Features<\/h3>\n<p>Average height 14.8-15.3 hands<\/p>\n<h3>Physique<\/h3>\n<p>Head is light and dry<br \/>\nEyes are lively<br \/>\nNeck is long and muscular<br \/>\nChest is rounded<br \/>\nWithers are wide<br \/>\nBack is wide and long<br \/>\nHindquarters are wide and muscular<br \/>\nLegs are dry and strong<br \/>\nMane and tail are thick<\/p>\n<h3>Traditional Colors<\/h3>\n<p> Dominating colours are red and red-roan, bay and bay-roan.<br \/>\nGenerally <a href=\"\/colors\/base\/chestnut\">chestnut<\/a>, <a href=\"\/colors\/modifiers\/brown\">brown<\/a>, <a href=\"\/colors\/modifiers\/bay\">bay<\/a> or <a href=\"\/colors\/white-patterns\/roan\">roan<\/a> <\/p>\n<h3>Temperament<\/h3>\n<p>Calm and tractable <\/p>\n<h3>Use<\/h3>\n<p>Draft<br \/>\nTransportation<\/p>\n<h3>More Images<\/h3>\n<div class=\"grid-two\">\n<div class=\"grid-two-one\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/new-olexandrian-draft-1.webp\" alt=\"New Olexandrian Heavy Draft Horse\" load=\"lazy\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"grid-two-two\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/new-olexandrian-draft-2.webp\" alt=\"New Olexandrian Heavy Draft Horse\" load=\"lazy\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"grid-two\">\n<div class=\"grid-two-one\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/new-olexandrian-draft-3.webp\" alt=\"New Olexandrian Heavy Draft Horse\" load=\"lazy\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"grid-two-two\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/new-olexandrian-draft-5.webp\" alt=\"New Olexandrian Heavy Draft Horse\" load=\"lazy\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intro The New Olexandrian Draft is not particularly new anymore and come from a base of Western European cart horses crossed with local mares.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8891,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[167],"tags":[126,134],"class_list":["post-8889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ukraine","tag-at-risk","tag-critical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8889","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=8889"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8892,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8889\/revisions\/8892"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}