{"id":998,"date":"2010-08-09T14:05:04","date_gmt":"2010-08-09T14:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theequinest.com\/breeds\/?p=998"},"modified":"2025-10-30T00:30:33","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T00:30:33","slug":"pleven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/pleven","title":{"rendered":"Pleven Horse"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Intro<\/h3>\n<p>Also called Plevna and Pleveska, the Pleven is a half-bred horse that comes from Bulgaria.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>Origins<\/h3>\n<p>Development began in 1898 by crossing the best local animals with <a href=\"\/breeds\/arabian-horse\">Arabian<\/a> and <a href=\"\/breeds\/anglo-arabian\">Anglo-Arabian<\/a> blood. Later <a href=\"\/breeds\/gidran\">Gidran<\/a> stallions were introduced and by 1951 there had become a fixed type as the breed was officially recognized.<\/p>\n<h3>Features<\/h3>\n<p>Average height 15.3 &#8211; 16 hands<\/p>\n<h3>Physique<\/h3>\n<p>Head has a straight profile<br \/>\nNeck is long and muscular<br \/>\nChest is broad and deep<br \/>\nShoulders are sloped<br \/>\nLegs are well shaped and muscular with broad joints<br \/>\nHooves are hard and sound<\/p>\n<h3>Traditional Colors<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"\/colors\/base\/chestnut\">chestnut<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Temperament<\/h3>\n<p>Calm and willing<\/p>\n<h3>Use<\/h3>\n<p>Sport horse<br \/>\nRiding horse<\/p>\n<h3>Video<\/h3>\n<div class=\"flex-video widescreen\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_ZS3eZ08faE?si=RbafNX-ykehEnwKI\" 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 Also called Plevna and Pleveska, the Pleven is a half-bred horse that comes from Bulgaria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6754,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bulgaria","tag-chestnut"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998","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=998"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10343,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998\/revisions\/10343"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}