There are many fans that enjoy witnessing horse equestrian sports. There is one of particular harmony and precision, which is tumbling. It consists of exercises on the back of a horse galloping in circles, which requires great skill, strength and harmony. It is a team discipline. The exercises are performed by one, two or even three people. It is a sport in which you can see, in addition to performing and artistic projection, harmony with the horse.

Jumping, one of the youngest equestrian sports is a discipline on the presumed ability of the rider and the horse to jump a series of obstacles that have been placed in a certain order. This is a spectacular and exciting discipline. Once men started jumping over obstacles, it joined the swim and run on the back of a horse as a sport. Not long after that initiated varied skills competitions in large and irregular areas of land. Today there are millions of fans of this sport.

There are other equestrian sports, with greater or lesser number of fans, all focusing on the animal considered among the most beautiful, strong and noble in the world.

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There are several equestrian sports in the Olympics, including the hitch or harness, which is managing a team of horses hitched to a carriage, and drivers must demonstrate their proficiency in driving. The team of horses may be one, two or four horses.

Another sport recognized by the International Equestrian Federation is the reining, also known as western riding or cowboy riding and in which horse and rider must perform a series of maneuvers that demonstrate the ability of the horse. The rider must be concerned also by the speed which is a requirement in all maneuvers.

Raid races are equestrian endurance races, also known as endurance riding or endurance racing. Because they are drag racing it is done in phases or stages, at the end of each veterinary control is carried out to ensure that the horse is able to continue.

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Eventing is another of the Olympic equestrian events and takes place over three days, with different skills each day: dressage, equestrian background and jump. The rider must ride the same horse every day and the purpose of the test is to demonstrate the harmonious development between horse and rider.

The first day is dressage or training and is intended to determine the degree of understanding between horse and rider.

The equestrian background of the second competition day is intended to check the strength, speed and jumping ability of the horse and rider’s ability to use the horse in rack-country skiing. It consists of four phases: roads and trails, obstacle course, back roads and trails and finally, cross country.

The jump test on the last day takes place in irregular tracks with changes in direction and is intended to check if the horse maintains the flexibility and power and their ability and obedience. The obstacles used in this phase must not exceed a height of 1.20 meters.

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In 1900 the equestrian sports became Olympic sports, including jump, dressage and eventing. With the proximity of the Olympics this year, it is worth noting what each one is.

The jump is a discipline in which the judges measure the synchronization between horse and rider to jump over a series of obstacles in a given order. This is one of the most popular disciplines of equestrian sport and most riders use it today, having become the most modern specialty of the sport.

Dressage, also called training, is another of the Olympic disciplines of riding. Is the development of the horse through a rational, methodical and balanced workout, in which the rider makes the horse do all his orders with harmony, balance and activity. The horse grows into a binomial with the rider, as it becomes more confident and aware of his orders.

The other Olympic discipline is eventing, which because of its complexity, we will see in a separate article.

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Horseback riding is an activity that dates back centuries. The horse has been used as draft animals, to load, ride, and hunt and even in earliest times, he was caught for use as food. There was a time when riding was almost exclusively military. The riding itself is an art, the art of maintaining control over a horse and the different ways to handle it, plus the knowledge to care for and the use of adequate equipment.

When we talk about horses, our minds usually think on horse racing at racetracks and rodeo in western United States. However, by 1912 the horse becomes an Olympic sport including jumping, dressage and eventing.

It is said that in the Middle Ages appeared two typical forms of riding: the mount to the mounting flange and the genet, which led to the equestrian sport. The first riding school ever recorded was founded in 1539 by Count Fiaschi in the Italian city of Ferrara.

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