A “hobby horser” – who gallops and jumps hurdles with the children’s stick toy – fired back at critics who dissed the activity as “easy” in a video that has since gone viral.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

A Lancashire schoolgirl has competed in numerous hobby horse competitions - where she takes part in show jumping with a stick pony. Tilly Norris, 11, has miniature pet horses but took up the sport ...

Hobby horses are made up of a toy horse’s head mounted on a long stick. The idea is that you put the stick between your legs and pretend you are riding the horse. You might have even had one ...

An owl has kicked off Halloween by stealing a toy stick horse (also known as a hobby horse) and riding it around like a witch on a broomstick. The great horned owl took the horse from an unknown ...

KINGSPORT, Tenn. (WCYB) — Kingsport’s first-ever Hobby Horse Derby took place this weekend at Allandale Mansion, bringing the community together for a fun and unique event. The Kingsport Parks ...

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 ...

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.’ ...