{"id":9472,"date":"2025-07-01T19:08:41","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T19:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/?p=9472"},"modified":"2025-07-01T19:59:21","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T19:59:21","slug":"angevin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/angevin","title":{"rendered":"Angevin Horse"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Intro<\/h3>\n<p>Now extinct, the Angevin Horse was bred to be a robust riding type and their hardiness made them popular as military mounts. Never an officially recognized breed, they are named for the Angevin region where they were bred.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>Origins<\/h3>\n<p>Bred to be strong, beautiful and fast, this riding type carried the blood of <a href=\"\/breeds\/arabian-horse\">Arabian<\/a>, <a href=\"\/breeds\/english-thoroughbred\">Thoroughbred<\/a>, <a href=\"\/breeds\/breton\">Breton<\/a> and <a href=\"\/breeds\/percheron\">Percheron<\/a>. While at one time popular for military, as the 20th century became more mechanized Angevin breeding stock was merged with several other riding types and became the <a href=\"\/breeds\/selle-francais\">Selle Fran\u00e7ais<\/a> studbook in 1958. <\/p>\n<h3>Features<\/h3>\n<p>Average height 14.7-15.5 hands<\/p>\n<h3>Physique<\/h3>\n<p>Head is handsome<br \/>\nEyes are large<br \/>\nears are well-set<br \/>\nWithers are mild<br \/>\nTail well-set<br \/>\nLegs are dry<br \/>\nHocks are flat<br \/>\nHooves are sound <\/p>\n<h3>Traditional Colors<\/h3>\n<p>Generally <a href=\"\/colors\/modifiers\/bay\">bay<\/a> <\/p>\n<h3>Temperament<\/h3>\n<p>Strong and obedient<\/p>\n<h3>Use<\/h3>\n<p>Cavalry<br \/>\nHunting<br \/>\nRacing<br \/>\nAgriculture<br \/>\nRiding<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intro Now extinct, the Angevin Horse was bred to be a robust riding type and their hardiness made them popular as military mounts. Never an officially recognized breed, they are named for the Angevin region where they were bred.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[5,125],"class_list":["post-9472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-france","tag-bay","tag-extinct"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9472","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=9472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9474,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9472\/revisions\/9474"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}