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Off we trot: craze for hobby horses comes to Britain
The Guardian
|April 08, 2024
It was a story that many people thought was a quirky April fool when it appeared on the website of Horse & Hound magazine.
But it is no joke that the British Show Pony Society (BSPS) is to "embrace the hobby-horse craze" by introducing a competition with £300 prizes for the young winners.
The sport, which is popular in Finland but spreading across the world, involves riding a toy horse made from a wooden stick with one end decorated to look like a pony's head.
Riders usually young girls compete by trotting, galloping and cantering around a ring, sometimes leaping over jumps.
At the BSPS championships children will each perform a short freestyle show with 50 marks for coordination, balance, energy and body control and a further 50 will be awarded for "overall performance of the show with energy and appeal".
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