{"id":9687,"date":"2025-09-15T18:58:30","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T18:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/?p=9687"},"modified":"2025-10-19T02:37:34","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T02:37:34","slug":"hack-horse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/hack-horse","title":{"rendered":"Hack Horse"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Intro<\/h3>\n<p>Not an actual breed, the Hack Horse is essentially an <a href=\"\/breeds\/anglo-arabian\">Anglo-Arabian<\/a> and there are several different strains associated with the variety.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>Origins<\/h3>\n<p>Not to be confused with the <a href=\"\/breeds\/hackney-horse\">Hackney Horse<\/a> which is bred mainly for harness work, the Hack is bred to ride. <a href=\"\/breeds\/anglo-arabian\">Anglo-Arabian<\/a> animals are a cross between <a href=\"\/breeds\/english-thoroughbred\">Thoroughbred<\/a> and <a href=\"\/breeds\/arabian-horse\">Arabian<\/a> bloodlines. Arabian bloodlines were a foundation for the English Thoroughbred and the two breeds cross beautifully. <\/p>\n<h3>Features<\/h3>\n<p>Average height 14.5-15.7 hands<\/p>\n<h3>Physique<\/h3>\n<p>Head is small with straight profile<br \/>\nEyes are large<br \/>\nNeck is long<br \/>\nBack is short<br \/>\nLegs are thin<br \/>\nHooves are strong<\/p>\n<h3>Traditional Colors<\/h3>\n<p>Generally <a href=\"\/colors\/modifiers\/bay\">bay<\/a> or <a href=\"\/colors\/modifiers\/brown\">brown<\/a>, <a href=\"\/colors\/modifiers\/greying\">grey<\/a>, <a href=\"\/colors\/base\/black\">black<\/a> or <a href=\"\/colors\/base\/chestnut\">chestnut<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Temperament<\/h3>\n<p>Calm and docile<\/p>\n<h3>Use<\/h3>\n<p>Show horse<br \/>\nRiding<br \/>\nHunting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intro Not an actual breed, the Hack Horse is essentially an Anglo-Arabian and there are several different strains associated with the variety.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9688,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,65,8],"tags":[5,4,118,11,15],"class_list":["post-9687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-canada","category-england","category-usa","tag-bay","tag-black","tag-brown","tag-chestnut","tag-grey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9687","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=9687"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10008,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9687\/revisions\/10008"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}