{"id":9805,"date":"2025-09-19T19:17:45","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T19:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/?p=9805"},"modified":"2025-10-25T18:36:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T18:36:21","slug":"jaf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/jaf","title":{"rendered":"Jaf Horse"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Intro<\/h3>\n<p>The Jef Horse is not an official breed, but a strain of the Persian Plateau Horse which has obvious <a href=\"\/breeds\/arabian-horse\">Arabian<\/a> influence.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>Origins<\/h3>\n<p>Raised in Iran, particularly in Kurdistan which stretches across southeast Turkey, northeast Iraq, northwest Iran and northern Syria. Their native cradle is believed to be in Iranian Kurdistan. As they aren&#8217;t an official breed, there are no centralized studbooks. There is very little available about this strain.<\/p>\n<h3>Features<\/h3>\n<p>Average height 14.8-16.2 hands<br \/>\nMane and tail hair are fine<\/p>\n<h3>Physique<\/h3>\n<p>Head is has a straight or slightly concave profile<br \/>\nNeck is high set<br \/>\nBack is straight<br \/>\nHindquarters are inclined<br \/>\nLegs are muscular<br \/>\nHooves are small<\/p>\n<h3>Traditional Colors<\/h3>\n<p>Generally <a href=\"\/colors\/modifiers\/greying\">grey<\/a>, but can be found in <a href=\"\/colors\/modifiers\/bay\">bay<\/a>, <a href=\"\/colors\/modifiers\/brown\">brown<\/a>, <a href=\"\/colors\/base\/chestnut\">chestnut<\/a> and <a href=\"\/colors\/base\/black\">black<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Temperament<\/h3>\n<p>Intelligent and kind<br \/>\nSpirited and brave<\/p>\n<h3>Use<\/h3>\n<p>Riding<br \/>\nTransportation<\/p>\n<h3>Video<\/h3>\n<div class=\"flex-video widescreen\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8ns0NRFZsnM?si=aOejMtEHzR0gjICm\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intro The Jef Horse is not an official breed, but a strain of the Persian Plateau Horse which has obvious Arabian influence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10120,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5,4,118,11,15],"class_list":["post-9805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iran","tag-bay","tag-black","tag-brown","tag-chestnut","tag-grey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9805","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=9805"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9811,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9805\/revisions\/9811"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}