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Episode: Germany’s first hobby horsing championship gallops through Frankfurt
Description: Germany's first hobby horsing championship got underway in Frankfurt, with hundreds of young riders competing in time jumping, style jumping and dressage on their wooden stick horses.
Roughly 300 riders—mostly youngsters, but there are about 20 adults enrolled—are expected to canter around a gymnasium, watched by 1,500 spectators. The competition is part of a growing wave of hobby horsing events internationally: the United States and Australia also held their first championships this year.
"Hobby horsing just gives me self-confidence, and I just enjoy doing it with other people," said Max Gohde, a 15-year-old competitor from Gifhorn, Germany, who has been practicing sinc...