ALMONT, Mich. — The day before the Closing Ceremonies at the Paris Olympics, more than 100 competitors gathered for a group trot to kick off the first competition of its kind on U.S. soil.

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 ...

Welcome to the world of hobby horse competitions, where human athletes play the part of both horse and rider. The strange equestrian-inspired sport, first popularized in Finland, has spread to the ...

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 ...

KINGSPORT, Tenn. (WJHL) — The Allandale Mansion in Kingsport hosted a hobby horse derby on Sunday. Jennifer Henry, the program leader at Allandale Mansion, said that the mansion was once a horse ...

An 8ft (2.5m) long hobby horse has emerged from its stables in Somerset to celebrate the start of May. Each year the horse, as it is known, frolics through the streets of Minehead, Dunster and ...