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Western dressage. A horse and rider performing western dressage. Western dressage is an equestrian sport that combines the principles of dressage riding and the use of western tack. Riders typically wear western attire, such as button-up shirts, cowboy boots and jeans. All horse breeds are permitted to compete in western dressage.
Western pleasure. Western pleasure is a western style competition at horse shows that evaluates horses on manners and suitability of the horse for a relaxed and slow but collected gait cadence, along with calm and responsive disposition. The horse is to appear to be a "pleasure" to ride, smooth-moving and very comfortable.
April 25, 2024 at 1:57 AM. For the fourth consecutive year, Texas Tech's Ranch Horse Team has claimed the national championship title once more at the National Intercollegiate Ranch and Stock ...
Ranch Sorting is an event that pits a team of two riders on horseback against the clock. Teamwork is the key with both riders working in harmony to cut out the correct cattle and drive them to the pen while keeping the wrong numbered cattle back. There are several variations of ranch sorting with one, two or three riders on the team, but all ...
Reining is a western riding competition for horses where the riders guide the horses through a precise pattern of circles, spins, and stops. All work is done at the lope (a version of the horse gait more commonly known worldwide as the canter ), or the gallop (the fastest of the horse gaits). Originating from working cattle, reining requires ...
Colorado Ranger. The Colorado Ranger is a horse breed from the Colorado High Plains in the United States. The breed is descended from two stallions imported from Turkey to the US state of Virginia in the late 1800s. These stallions were then bred to ranch horses in Nebraska and Colorado, and in the early 1900s the two stallions who every ...
Equitation – Art or practice of horse riding or horsemanship. Horse show – A judged exhibition of horses. Icelandic equitation – Form of horse riding traditional to Iceland. Jineteada gaucha – Traditional sport of Argentina and the Cono Sur. Mounted orienteering – Sport of orienteering while riding a horse.
Paralympic. 1996. Dressage ( / ˈdrɛsɑːʒ / or / drɪˈsɑːʒ /; French: [dʁɛsaʒ], most commonly translated as "training") is a form of horse riding performed in exhibition and competition, as well as an art sometimes pursued solely for the sake of mastery. As an equestrian sport defined by the International Equestrian Federation ...