They might call it a hobby, but the girls and young women who competitively prance and jump around holding stick-mounted felt horse heads ride with a certain passion. To an outsider, hobbyhorsing ...

In the Finnish championships, point penalties can be levied for everything from trotting instead of cantering to having your hobby horse’s head come off the stick. And riders can be disqualified ...

Germany’s first hobby horsing championship got underway in Frankfurt on Saturday, with hundreds of young riders competing in time jumping, style jumping and dressage on their wooden stick horses.

a sport that involves participants riding stick horses while navigating various courses. “On the internet I saw a video of someone at the hobby horse championships, which is an event that occurs ...

Mica Zandstra has twice traveled 4,000 miles to Finland to compete in equestrian contests. Now the Chicago teen is putting on a similar event much closer to home—inside at a middle-school ...