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Equestrianism refers to the skill of driving and riding horses. This broad description includes the use of horses both for practical, working purposes as well as for recreational activities and competitive sports. Horses are trained and ridden for practical working purposes. These works are used in police work or for controlling herd animals on a farm. They are also used in competitive sports including. Equestrian does not limited their horses in dressage, eventing, endurance racing, horse racing, reining, tent pegging, vaulting, polo, show jumping, driving, and rodeo.
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Some popular forms of this sport are grouped together at horse shows, where the horse perform on a wide variety of disciplines. Horses are also used for non-competitive recreational riding such as trail riding, fox hunting or hacking.
There is a public access to horse chases in almost every part of the world. There are many parks, ranches, and public stables that offer both guided and independent riding. Horses are also used for therapeutic purposes, both in specialized paraequestrian competition as well as non-competitive riding. In non-competitive riding horse riding is specially helpful to improve human health and emotional development. Horses are also driven in harness racing, at horse shows and in other various types of exhibitions. Historical re-enactment or ceremony, often requires pulling carriages. In some parts of the world, horses are still used for practical purposes such as farming.
Horses continue to be used in public services as in traditional ceremonies like funerals, parades police and volunteer mounted patrols, and also for bestrode search and rescue. Equestrian events were first included in the Olympic Games of 1900. By 1912, all three Olympic disciplines visible today were part of the games. The following forms of competition are recognized worldwide and are a part of the equestrian events at the Olympics:
Dressage: is called “training” in french. It includes the continuous training of the horse to a high level of impulsion, collection, and lastly obedience. Competitive dressage has the goal of showing the horse carrying out request in and through natural movements.
Show jumping: is the timed event judged on the ability of the horse. It also includes the rider's ability to jump over a series of obstacles, in a given order and with no or fewest knockdowns or refusals of portions of the obstacles.
Eventing: is also defined as the combined training of the horse. The horse trials, the complete test, the Military, or the three-day event, puts together the obedience of dressage with the athletic capability of show jumping. The fitness of the horse demands the cross-country jumping phase. In the last-named, the horses jump over fixed obstacles, such as stone walls, ditches, logs, banks, and water, trying to finish the course within the optimal time. There was also the “Steeple Chase” Phase, but is now excluded from major competitions to conform with the standards of Olympic.
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