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The hunt seat discipline offers both over fences classes and flat classes, judged on the riders equitation. Within hunt seat 11 divisions are offered. High school members can compete in either Varsity Open over fences (fences set at 2'6), Varsity Intermediate over fences (fences set at 2ft), or Junior Varsity Novice over fences (cross rails).
Hunt seat is a popular form of riding in the United States, recognized by the USHJA (United States Hunter/Jumper Association) and the United States Equestrian Federation, and in Canada. While hunt seat showing per se is not an Olympic discipline, many show jumping competitors began by riding in hunter and equitation classes before moving into ...
The hunt seat style of riding is derived from the hunt field. In equitation competition, flat classes (those that do not including jumping) include judging at the walk, trot, and canter in both directions, and the competitors may be asked to ride without stirrups or perform assorted other tests or patterns. It is correct for the riders to have ...
Saddle seat riding. In the United States and Canada, there are two broad categories of English riding: Hunt seat, which is an overall term used in the United States to describe forward seat riding, used both on the flat and over fences. This is the style most commonly associated with the term "English" riding.
"English pleasure" is the generic term for a number of different English riding classes seen at horse shows in the United States, where the horse is ridden in either hunt seat or saddle seat tack. In the average English pleasure class, the horses perform as a group, exhibiting the natural gaits of the walk, trot, and canter, and may also be ...
By 1952, Morris was training with coach Gordon Wright and riding his first great horse, Game Cock. [1] At age fourteen, Morris won the 1952 ASPCA Maclay Horsemanship Finals and AHSA Hunt Seat Equitation Medal Finals, making him the youngest rider to do so. [2] [8] [3] Morris tried out for the 1956 Olympic Games team, placing second in the ...
Littauer at a riding clinic he conducted at Sweet Briar College in February 1953. Vladimir Stanislavovitch Littauer (January 10, 1892 – August 31, 1989) was an influential Russian and American horseback riding master and the author of books and films on educated riding and the training of horses. As a riding instructor, Littauer was in great ...
In the United States, horses used in hunt seat and show hunter competition are often classed as sport horses, whereas the British show hunter is classified as a "show horse." Horses used for western riding disciplines, Saddle seat , or any form of horse racing are generally not described as sport horses.