Not an officially recognized breed on their own, the Diligencier is a variety of the handsome Percheron<\/a> breed. This lighter, taller strain of Percheron were appreciated for their strength and flashy movement. Their strength allowed them to pull a large French stagecoach called a diligence, from which they take their name. Popular during the late 18th and early 19th century, they were primarily used for pulling this specific type of coach. <\/p>\n Average height 16.7-18.2 hands<\/p>\n Head is large with a straight profile Traditionally they are only found in black<\/a> or grey<\/a>, in the US, bay<\/a> is also accepted.<\/p>\n Hardworking and gentle<\/p>\n Harness Intro Not an officially recognized breed on their own, the Diligencier is a variety of the handsome Percheron breed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9950,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[5,4,15],"class_list":["post-9948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-france","tag-bay","tag-black","tag-grey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9948","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=9948"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9952,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9948\/revisions\/9952"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/p>\nOrigins<\/h3>\n
Features<\/h3>\n
Physique<\/h3>\n
\nNeck is medium in length
\nShoulders are long
\nChest is wide
\nHindquarters are muscular
\nLegs are lean
\nTail is high set<\/p>\nTraditional Colors<\/h3>\n
Temperament<\/h3>\n
Use<\/h3>\n
\nRiding
\nPolice
\nMeat production<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"