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Types of Horse Riding

Barrel Racing
Barrel Racing

Barrel racing is a rodeo event in which a horse and rider attempt to complete a cloverleaf pattern around preset barrels in the fastest time. Though both boys and girls compete at the youth level, in collegiate and professional ranks, it is a rodeo event for women.

Classical Dressage
Classical Dressage

Classical dressage evolved from cavalry movements and training for the battlefield, and has since developed into the competitive dressage seen today. Classical riding is the art of riding in harmony with, rather than against, the horse.

Competitive Trail Riding
Competitive Trail Riding

Competitive Trail Riding measures the fitness of a horse or pony as they travel over a marked trail of 20 to 120 miles. Horses are examined thoroughly before, on the trail and after finishing, by qualified judges and veterinarians.

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Conformation
Conformation

The conformation of your horse refers to the correctness of its bone structure, musculature, and its body proportions. Both horse conformation and knowing the points of the horse are important to horse owners that want or have to to care for a horse; or are involved in the equestrian industry or…

Cutting
Cutting

In 1898, the first cutting horse competition was held in Haskell, Texas. On March 14, 1908, the Old North Side Coliseum, now known as the Cowtown Coliseum in Fort Worth, Texas, hosted the first indoor cutting horse contest which grew into the Southwestern Exposition and Fat Stock Show.

Dressage
Dressage

Dressage encourages the horse to take strong upward steps with bounce. The whole training process is designed to gradually strengthen the horse to be able to do a range of movements that require great physical strength and a good partnership between horse and rider to perform in natural beauty.

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Dressage IMAGE SOURCE: BOB HAARMANS VIA FLICKR
Dressage IMAGE SOURCE: BOB HAARMANS VIA FLICKR

IMAGE SOURCE: BOB HAARMANS VIA FLICKR. The purpose of dressage is to develop a horse’s natural athletic ability and ... English riding, horse, horses, riding styles

Driving
Driving

Driving, when applied to horses, ponies, mules, or donkeys, is a broad term for hitching equines to a wagon, carriage, cart, sleigh, or other horse-drawn vehicle by means of a harness and working them in this way.

Endurance
Endurance

Endurance riding is an equestrian sport based on controlled long-distance races. It is one of the international competitions recognized by the FEI. There are endurance rides worldwide.

English Pleasure
English Pleasure

English pleasure is generic term for a number of different English riding classes seen at horse shows in the United States, where the horse is ridden in either hunt seat or saddle seat tack.

Eventing (see FEI, Above)
Eventing (see FEI, Above)

Dressage is also very important to the three-day event horse, as it helps to develop the muscular strength and suppleness needed the other two days of competition, endurance day and show jumping, where the horse must be unbelievably fit and strong, and able to lengthen and shorten stride at a gallop.

Eventing IMAGE SOURCE: RAYAND VIA FLICKR
Eventing IMAGE SOURCE: RAYAND VIA FLICKR

Mar 28, 2017 11 Different Riding Styles For Your Horse. Dressage. IMAGE SOURCE: BOB HAARMANS VIA FLICKR. Eventing. IMAGE SOURCE: RAYAND VIA FLICKR. Show jumping. IMAGE SOURCE: DWAYNE MADDEN VIA FLICKR.

Field Hunter
Field Hunter

The judging of the American show hunter is based on the requirements of a horse in the hunt field, focusing on the horse's manners, movement, jumping form, rhythm, and smoothness around the course. Show hunters in the US are usually warmblood or Thoroughbred types.

Foxhunting
Foxhunting

What is Foxhunting or Riding to Hounds? If you love the fresh air, riding horses and adventure, I can tell you it is the most fun you will have on a horse, bar none. Foxhunting is the sport of mounted riders chasing wild quarry with a pack of hounds. It is a union of humans and animals in the beauty of nature's setting.

Gymkhana
Gymkhana

Gymkhana is an equestrian event consisting of speed pattern racing and timed games for riders on horses. These events often emphasize children's participation and may be organized by a recognized Pony Club or a 4-H club.

Hunt Seat
Hunt Seat

Hunt seat horseback riding is a style of forward seat riding whose roots are based in fox hunting. Hunt seat is an extremely popular sport of horseback riding in the US. Hunt seat is an extremely popular sport of horseback riding in the US.

Racing
Racing

Horse racing is an equestrian performance sport, typically involving two or more horses ridden by jockeys (or sometimes driven without riders) over a set distance for competition.

Reining IMAGE SOURCE: EDWARD DALMULDER VIA FLICKR
Reining IMAGE SOURCE: EDWARD DALMULDER VIA FLICKR

IMAGE SOURCE: EDWARD DALMULDER VIA FLICKR. ... in reining competition riders guide horses through a precise pattern ... English riding, horse, horses, riding styles, ...

Show Jumping
Show Jumping

Show jumping, also known as "stadium jumping", "open jumping", or simply "jumping", is a part of a group of English riding equestrian events that also includes dressage, eventing, hunters, and equitation. Jumping classes are commonly seen at horse shows throughout the world, including the Olympics.

Showmanship
Showmanship

Showmanship is an event found at many horse shows. The class is also sometimes called "Fitting and Showmanship", "Showmanship In-Hand", "Showmanship at Halter" or "Halter Showmanship" It involves a person on the ground leading a horse, wearing a halter or bridle, through a series of maneuvers called a pattern.

Vaulting
Vaulting

Equestrian vaulting, or simply vaulting, is most often described as gymnastics and dance on horseback, which can be practiced both competitively or non-competitively. Vaulting has a history as an equestrian act at circuses, but its origins stretch back at least two-thousand years.

Western Pleasure
Western Pleasure

Western Pleasure is a western style competition at horse shows that evaluates horses on manners and suitability of the horse for a relaxed but collected gait cadence and relatively slow speed of gait, along with calm and responsive disposition.