{"id":9511,"date":"2025-08-05T06:22:45","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T06:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/?p=9511"},"modified":"2025-08-05T06:24:39","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T06:24:39","slug":"basseri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/basseri","title":{"rendered":"Basseri Horse"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Intro<\/h3>\n<p>Like many of the strains found in Iran, the Basseri is not an official breed. Rather they are a variety of Persian Plateau Horse and a sister to the <a href=\"\/breeds\/bakhtiari\">Bakhtiari<\/a>, Darashouri, Qashqai and Sistari types.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>Origins<\/h3>\n<p>A large percentage of horses found in Iran possess some degree of <a href=\"\/breeds\/arabian-horse\">Arabian<\/a> blood. The Basseri is a light saddle type which is fast an possesses amazing endurance.<br \/>\n . <\/p>\n<h3>Features<\/h3>\n<p>Average height 14-14.4 hands<\/p>\n<h3>Physique<\/h3>\n<p>Head is long with a straight profile<br \/>\nNeck is high set<br \/>\nBody is slender<br \/>\nBack is short<br \/>\nLegs are long<br \/>\nHooves are small<\/p>\n<h3>Traditional Colors<\/h3>\n<p>Generally <a href=\"\/colors\/base\/chestnut\">chestnut<\/a>, <a href=\"\/colors\/modifiers\/bay\">bay<\/a>, <a href=\"\/colors\/modifiers\/brown\">brown<\/a> or <a href=\"\/colors\/modifiers\/greying\">grey<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Temperament<\/h3>\n<p>Highly energetic<br \/>\nIntelligent and brave<\/p>\n<h3>Use<\/h3>\n<p>Riding<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intro Like many of the strains found in Iran, the Basseri is not an official breed. Rather they are a variety of Persian Plateau Horse and a sister to the Bakhtiari, Darashouri, Qashqai and Sistari types.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9512,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5,118,11,15],"class_list":["post-9511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iran","tag-bay","tag-brown","tag-chestnut","tag-grey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9511","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=9511"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9514,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9511\/revisions\/9514"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}