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, ...

The bar is almost 1.4 metres high. Hobby horsing contestant Marleen Gresmeier, 14, eyes the track before her, calculating how she and Brumsel can clear the jump. They are keenly watched by spectators ...

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.

FRANKFURT – 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 ...

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 ...

Spending time with your equine partner, training, competing – it’s what we all love doing. And no less so when that partner is made of wood. Hobby horsing has exploded in popularity in the UK in ...