Barrel racing and dressage, on a stick Many competitors spent double-digit hours traveling to Almont, a small agricultural town 50 miles north of Detroit and the home of 14-year-old organizer ...

At a new contest in Michigan, stick-horse enthusiasts will be judged on dressage, jumping and other equestrian disciplines. ‘It’s so much more difficult than people think.’ ...

By The Way A new breed of horse girls gets its first U.S. championships. Hobby horses aren’t real, but the competition is: More than 100 gallopers gathered with their trusty steeds-on-a-stick.

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 ...

Mica Zandstra, 18, who lives in a South Loop high-rise, helped organize the first U.S. Hobby Horse Championships, held this month in Michigan. That was after making a nice showing in a competition ...

A schoolgirl has competed in hobby horse competitions - involving show jumping with a stick pony. Tilly Norris, 11, has miniature pet horses but took up the sport earlier this year as she likes ...

Paris 2024 Olympics - Equestrian - Dressage Individual Grand Prix Freestyle - Chateau de Versailles, Versailles, France - August 04, 2024. General view of the Dressage competition.

The main dressage competitions begin on July 30, and that star musical turn is scheduled for Aug. 4. The horse whipping scandal forced Charlotte Dujardin, a top rider on the British team, to withdraw.

The dark heart of dressage: What really goes on behind the stable doors? It is dubbed ‘horse ballet’, the most delicate of Olympic sports. But, as Charlotte Dujardin is banned from competing ...