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 (AP) — 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 ...

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 ...

Riding an imaginary horse is a galloping success with young girls in the Nordic country – and the trend is taking off elsewhere Perhaps one of the more surprising articles to be widely circulated this ...

Who said you need to own a fancy, expensive horse to compete in show jumping or dressage? Definitely not Waiheke High School student Emma Wilton - who is bringing New Zealand's first-ever organised ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sporting dyed red hair 20-year old Alisa Aarniomaki holds her hobby-horse, during the hobby-horsing Finnish championships in ...

It is hot to trot! Teen girls in Finland are going buck wild for the sport of “hobbyhorsing” — yes, those stuffed horse’s heads on sticks you played with as a kid. As the horse hobby sweeps the nation ...

Elsa, on the right, is one of the thousands of teenage girls in Finland who are into hobby horses Hobbyhorse Revolution/Tuffi Films It's hard to watch images of teenagers prancing about on homemade ...

FRANKFURT, Germany — Germany’s first hobby horsing championship will gallop through Frankfurt this weekend, with hundreds of young riders competing in time jumping, style jumping and dressage on their ...