The horse subsequently galloped towards the side of the arena, where he stopped suddenly, throwing Von Eckermann forwards, head over heels into a piece of apparatus. The rider seemed to hit the ...

By Sarah Maslin Nir As show jumping ... going over set time allowed can add a fault per second over. While speed is the goal, it can also become an obstacle: a 1,200-pound horse going too fast ...

Heath Ryan has been provisionally suspended from national and international competition after a video surfaced on social ...

On a crisp, clear morning, a chestnut thoroughbred thundered down the dirt strip at Churchill Downs, his exercise rider ... jumping and pulling as humans bred and trained them for various purposes ...

The Badminton Horse Trials ... stamina and jumping ability. The aim is to negotiate every obstacle in the optimum time, but the jumps are huge, and to the less experienced rider, utterly terrifying.

Other horse-and-rider pairs followed ... Horses honed skills such as running, jumping and pulling as humans bred and trained them for various purposes over millennia. And the 151st Derby ...