Hobby horsing contestant Marleen Gresmeier, 14, eyes the track before her, calculating how she and Brumsel can clear the jump ...

The sports hall in Vantaa, outside Helsinki, is packed with nearly 1,000 people seated on the benches, eagerly watching the court. Awaiting the riders, an equestrian course is set up in the middle, ...

A thunderous click, then clack, then click again reverberated through the wooden gym floors on repeat. Bleacher seats shook with the sounds of hundreds of elated girls as they ran a lap together, each ...

Hundreds of athletes brought their horses to Almont, Michigan, last month for an American championship event. But the horses weren’t flesh and blood — they were stuffed heads on sticks that 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.

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. The riders ...

Almont — They’ve heard all the jokes and jabs: how they need to grow up, how they should find a real horse to ride, how they look like a sketch from “Monty Python’s Flying Circus.” But the 280 girls ...

Imagine this: You just got home from school, and drop your backpack on the floor. Bad day, good day, it doesn't really matter. You're focused on one thing — riding your horse. You go out back to your ...

Hundreds of competitors gathered in Frankfurt for Germany’s second Hobby Horse Championship, taking part in jumping, dressage and timed obstacle events using hobby horses. Video showed participants ...