News / Life Competitors jump into hobby horse championships Germany’s first hobby horsing championship has got underway in Frankfurt this weekend with hundreds of young riders competing in time ...

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 ...

Hobby horse competitions are a real thing -- seriously, a real thing -- and not just in Finland. The strange equestrian-esque sport, in which competitors jump, race and perform while astride the ...

Thousands galloped their way into Finland's eighth annual Hobby Horse Championships. ... Teens Compete in Hobby-Horse Jumping Competition. Offbeat. June 16, 2019.

"I do like jumping but I don't like jumping on a horse." Tilly started hobby horsing in January this year after she was approached to be an ambassador to promote it to her 24,000 Instagram followers.

07/20/2023 July 20, 2023. Dressage or show jumping on a hobby horse? What sounds like an activity for imaginative little girls is in Finland an international competitive sport called "Hobby Horsing".

Despite facing some ridicule, Finns are dead serious about the sport, which involves equestrians leaping athletically over fences just like in horse jumping.