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Hobby horsing is a sport and a hobby with gymnastic elements which uses hobby horses, also known as stick horses. [1] [2] Movement sequences similar to those in show jumping or dressage are partly simulated in courses, without real horses being used. The participants predominantly use self-made hobby horses. [3] [4] [5]
From the term "hobby horse" came the expression "to ride one's hobby-horse", meaning "to follow a favourite pastime", and in turn, the modern sense of the term hobby. [59] The term is also connected to the draisine, a forerunner of the bicycle, invented by Baron Karl von Drais. In 1818, a London coach-maker named Denis Johnson began producing ...
William Wallace Denslow's illustrations for a variant of Ride a cock horse, from a 1901 edition of Mother Goose. A hobby horse (or hobby-horse) is a child's toy horse. Children played at riding a wooden hobby horse made of a straight stick with a small horse's head (of wood or stuffed fabric), and perhaps reins, attached to one end.
NAN cards are also sought after. These pink and green cards allow a particular horse to enter the North American Nationals (NAN), a yearly show organized by the North American Model Horse Show Association (NAMHSA). The show and the qualification cards carry a lot of prestige in the hobby world - a model which is "NAN qualified" goes up in value.
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Model horse showing is a hobby built around the collection of scale model horses, with equal focus on honouring the (real) horse show industry as well as the artistic merit of the miniatures. Classes & Divisions
Expensive Hobby (1971–2003) was an outstanding Quarter Horse reining horse, working cowhorse, and cutting horse. [1] Expensive Hobby was a 1971 buckskin gelding, sired by Hobby Horse, and out of a daughter of Stormy's Sugar named Jan's Helen. [2] Expensive Hobby was shown in reining 120 times, and won the class 110 of those times. [1]
A hobby horse is a costume or character involved in traditional customs such as the morris dance and mummers' play. Hobby horse or hobbyhorse may also refer to: Hobby horse (toy), a toy horse, consisting of a model of a horse's head attached to a stick; The Hobby Horse, the magazine of the Century Guild of Artists from 1886 to 1892