Equestrian Sport

The equestrian sports gather equestrian disciplines various and varied whose finality first is not to gain a race, unlike the horse-races.

The formation and the practice with the equestrian sports generally proceed in a Riding school. Certain disciplines are practiced nevertheless in nature.

Principal equestrian sports

The equestrian sports among most usually practiced are:

attachment : discipline in which a leader led of the horses harnessed to a car, the latter also being able to take along grooms.
Attachment of tradition : discipline whose objective is to maintain the art traditional of the attachment and the horse-drawn safeguard. The car must belong to an old model;
complete Contest of horsemanship (the CEC): also called by “complete” short cut or “complete contest”, this discipline is practiced only in contest as its name indicates it. It gathers a test of raising, cross-country race and of jump of obstacles, specifically called horse within the framework of the complete contest;
Doma will be occupied : horsemanship of origin adalouse and related to the guard of the fighting bulls. It requires a fine and particular raising;
raising : discipline mother of all horsemanship because she judges quality of the communication of the rider with her horse. The training of horsemanship always starts with raising;
endurance : the objective of the discipline is to traverse long distances with its horse, or without speed limit. Since the end of the Years 1970, this type of horsemanship knew a true rise to power in the European countries and Arabic;
horsemanship the Camargue : born from the work of the Guardian vis-a-vis the Bull X, horsemanship the Camargue is practiced on horses the Camargue, with a specific material and tests which call upon competences of raising;
Icelandic horsemanship : horsemanship practiced with a Icelandic horse. This last lays out in addition to the three usual paces of the Tölt and the Amble.
horsemanship Western or American horsemanship : as its name indicates it, it is about the horsemanship applied to the origin by the “Cow-boy S”. It now developed on all the continents and of the competitions exist. Disciplines like the reining or the rally are particularly practiced;
Horse-ball : collective sport of which the roots come us from an old Asian equestrian play. Two teams of four or six riders clash and must send a balloon with an unfavourable aim after a set of master keys. The horse-ball is a kind of basketball adapted to horsemanship. The teams clash on a delimited ground, and must defend their basket (a vertical hoop placed at 3,5 bills of quantities of the ground) against the goals of the other team. The balloon is maintained in arnachement leather including/understanding of the solid handles which allow at the same time pulling up and its recovery on the ground without going down from horse, but while leaning.
hunter : usually practiced with the the United States, intermediate discipline between the jump of obstacles and the raising in which the couple rider-horse is noted compared to their style;
rides sidesaddle : only horsemanship where the rider has its two legs on the same side of the horse;
Oulak : equestrian collective sport Kyrgyz in which a goat or a decapitated sheep is used as ball. Two teams of five riders are opposed to seize the carcass and to put it with an unfavourable aim a maximum of time over one 20 minutes duration.
Sports shirt : the collective equestrian sport oldest in which two teams of four riders clashes by sending a ball with unfavourable aims thanks to a long mallet;
Polocrosse : mix sports shirt and Amerindian play lacrosse. Each player uses a racket comparable with a scoop in which the light and elastic foam ball is carried. The objective is of launching the ball with unfavourable aims;
Pony ranges : plays with Pony practiced by young riders in team, with foot and/or horse. A version for adults also exists;
equestrian excursion : quite simply to travel to horse, the excursion is recognized as a discipline by the French federation of horsemanship even if it is free from competition. This activity, very practiced, has as a characteristic to be able to be exerted " at soi" , apart from any bond with a professional equestrian organization;
Chilean rodeo : the second most popular sport in Chile after football. The Rodeo consists of will stick , made up of two Huaso S, farm laborers Chilean, assembled on their horses which must stop the bull.
Jump of obstacles : Olympic equestrian discipline the most practiced in competition and in which a rider and its mounting jump of the mobile bars of obstacles. Its ludic and spectacular aspects as well as the simplicity of its rules are there for much;
Ski joëring : a skier is tractor drawn by a horse which it must direct. This discipline draws its originality to be a feature union between two sports which could seem not to have any common point;
TREC : TREC means Techniques Equestrian Excursion of Competition . This discipline makes it possible in love with the “natural Cheval” to be measured in competition in tests which call upon same qualities as at the time of the excursions;
stunt-flying rings of it: between horsemanship, the gymnastics and acrobatics, this discipline consists in carrying out, individually or in team, of the figures on a horse with the three paces.

International equestrian sports

Olympic Games

The Olympic disciplines are the raising, the complete Concours of horsemanship and the Saut of obstacles.

At the time of the Olympic Games of summer of 2004, by preoccupation with a profitability and to facilitate the televised retransmissions, the complete contest was reduced of two tests: the steeplechase and the truck driver. Since then the number of international and national contests using this new format increases and tends to replace the traditional standard.

World equestrian plays

In addition to the three Olympic disciplines, the International Equestrian Fédération (FEI) recognizes as international disciplines the attachment, the reining in horsemanship Western, the endurance and the stunt-flying. The Horse-ball has the statute of regional discipline.

The FEI organizes every 4 years, in alternation with the Olympic Games, an international competition joining together on the same place the seven major disciplines that she recognizes. They are the world equestrian Jeux (JEM). The last disputed in August and September 2006 in Aachen (Germany).

Sporting federations

international equestrian Federation (FEI)
French federation of horsemanship (FE) Equestrian France
Federation of Quebec Quebec, Swiss Canada
Federation of the Equestrian Sports Switzerland

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