Dressage

                                                                 Dressage.

Friesians are commonly used horses for dressage. I think they

suit best for dressage.

               

Dressage is often referred as ''Horse Ballet''. It started during the Renaissence and is a very disciplined sport. The rider must balance the horse and aim to give lighter aids to gain a better result. Dressage encourages the horse to take strong upward steps with bounce.

Dressage is a French term meaning "training," and in the horse world it is a method for teaching horses to be obedient, willing, supple and responsive to their riders.

Horse Parts

                                                            Parts of your horse.

To be able to know your horse better you need to know the parts of your horse:

Show jumping

Show Jumping

Horses show jumping became more popular in the 1900s when show jumping was included in more important horse shows. There were separate classes for men and women where they could ride side saddle. Horses were of course jumping long before there was a horse show to include it in and when the forward seat was developed riders leaned how to aid horses in clearing obstacles.

An Italian man named Captain Caprilli watched horses at liberty and began a natural method of show

jumping , people to this day still use his teachings.

The birth place of show jumping was in Paris , France in 1886. When show jumping was introduced to the English it was known as Lepping competition. Show jumping became a very popular sport in the 1900's.

The show jumping style called Grand Prix originated in France and in 1912 it was finally introduced into the Olympic Games.

Show jumping is an exciting sport and also a dangerous sport but entertaining enough for people to watch it , there is a lot of effort put into the show by both the rider and the horse. They must both have an athletic sense of balance. Horse and rider have to have a connection and trust in order to be able to complete a course of fences because they have to be able to read eachothers thoughts before going into a fence and the rider must go with the horse and not rush into it otherwise the horse panicks and either runs out iof the jump or the rider could end up falling off. There needs to be 100% focus for the whole time they're in the arena.

This is the world's highest jump at 2,47 m

info

The horse (Equus ferus caballus)^[2][3] is one of two extant subspecies of Equus ferus, or the wild horse. It is an odd-toed ungulate mammal belonging to the taxonomic family Equidae. The horse has evolved over the past 45 to 55 million years from a small multi-toed creature into the large, single-toed animal of today. Humans began to domesticate horses around 4000 BC, and their domestication is believed to have been widespread by 3000 BC. Horses in the subspecies caballus are domesticated, although some domesticated populations live in the wild as feral horses. These feral populations are not true wild horses, as this term is used to describe horses that have never been domesticated, such as the endangered Przewalski's Horse, a separate subspecies, and the only remaining true wild horse. There is an extensive, specialized vocabulary used to describe equine-related concepts, covering everything from anatomy to life stages, size, colors, markings, breeds, locomotion, and behavior.

Introduction

Hello , I'm Holly Kelly. I am a student of Wesley College Dublin , I am in Transition Year. I am going to do a blog about horses and their culture. I will post about different types of information I read up about onto my blog each week. I am choosing horses to write about because I feel I will do a good report on them because I already know a lot about them.