{"id":9668,"date":"2025-09-15T00:07:26","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T00:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/?p=9668"},"modified":"2025-09-15T00:07:26","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T00:07:26","slug":"frencher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/frencher","title":{"rendered":"Frencher Horse"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Intro<\/h3>\n<p>The Frencher Horse is not an actual breed, but rather a strain of <a href=\"\/breeds\/canadian-horse\">Canadian Horse<\/a> developed after the late 18th century.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>Origins<\/h3>\n<p>A variety of breeds were imported to Canada during the late 18th and early 19th century. Many of these breeds were crossed with the Canadian horse, particularly the <a href=\"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/american-standardbred\">American Standardbred<\/a> and <a href=\"\/breeds\/american-thoroughbred\">Thoroughbred<\/a>. This combination produced a hardy type with great endurance and larger size. <\/p>\n<p>Today the strain is considered extinct, but they were once well known in Montreal (probably how they got their Frencher name) as a fast and powerful saddle horse. They were popular enough, they could also be found in Massachusetts and Maine in the US. <\/p>\n<h3>Features<\/h3>\n<p>Average height 15.7 hands<br \/>\nMane and tail are fine<\/p>\n<h3>Physique<\/h3>\n<p>Head has a straight profile<br \/>\nNeck is long<br \/>\nBack is long<br \/>\nLegs are solid and strong<\/p>\n<h3>Traditional Colors<\/h3>\n<p>Generally <a href=\"\/colors\/base\/chestnut\">chestnut<\/a>, <a href=\"\/colors\/base\/black\">black<\/a>, <a href=\"\/colors\/modifiers\/bay\">bay<\/a> or <a href=\"\/colors\/modifiers\/brown\">brown<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Temperament<\/h3>\n<p>Energetic and adaptable<\/p>\n<h3>Use<\/h3>\n<p>Trotter<br \/>\nRiding<br \/>\nTransportation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intro The Frencher Horse is not an actual breed, but rather a strain of Canadian Horse developed after the late 18th century.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9669,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[5,4,118,11,125],"class_list":["post-9668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-canada","tag-bay","tag-black","tag-brown","tag-chestnut","tag-extinct"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9668","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=9668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9670,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9668\/revisions\/9670"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}