The document discusses various equestrian sports including dressage, show jumping, eventing, polo, horse racing, cross-country jumping, para-equestrianism, tent pegging, vaulting, horseball, reining, and endurance riding. It also describes horse passports, which allow horses to be accurately identified and transported internationally and record a horse's medical history. A horse passport is required to compete in FEI events in some countries and to sell horses in the UK. The passport contains information like the horse's description, vaccinations, and registered owner.
3. POLO
• Polo game played on horseback
between two teams of four
players each who use mallets
with long, flexible handles to
drive a wooden ball down a
grass field and between two goal
posts.
• It is the oldest of equestrian
sports.
4. HORSE RACING
Horse racing is an equestrian
performance sport, typically involving
two or more horses ridden by
jockeys over a set distance for
competition.
5. SHOW JUMPING
• show jumping, competitive equestrian
event in which horse and rider are required
to jump, usually within a time limit, a series
of obstacles that have been designed for a
particular show.
• Show jumping is also includes eventing,
hunters, and equitation.
6. DRESSAGE
• Dressage is a form of horse riding
performed in exhibition and competition,
as well as an art sometimes pursued
solely for the sake of mastery.
7. CROSS COUNTRY JUMPING
• Cross-country is a part of the
sport of equestrian,
where riders riders are
required to jump over 30 to
40 obstacles within a fixed
time.
• Thoroughbreds are excellent
choices for cross country due
to their large gallop strides,
speed, and ability to maintain
endurance throughout long
stretches of cantering or
galloping.
8. PARA-EQUESTRIANISM
• Para-Equestrian is Equestrian Sport for
people with a classifiable physical or
visual impairment.
• Para-Equestrian Dressage is the only
Equestrian discipline that is included in
the Paralympic Games, where it has
been a regular fixture since 1996.
9. TENT PEGGING
• Tent pegging is a cavalry
sport of ancient origin, and
is one of only ten
equestrian disciplines
officially recognised by the
International Equestrian
Federation.
10. VAULTING
• Equestrian vaulting is the most often
described as gymnastics and dance on
horseback, which can be practiced both
competitively or non-competitively.
• Vaulting has a history as an equestrian
act at circuses, but its origins stretch
back at least two-thousand years.
11. EVENTING
• Eventing is an equestrian event where a
single horse and rider combine and
compete against other competitors
across the three disciplines of dressage,
cross-country, and show jumping.
• This event has its roots in a
comprehensive cavalry test that
required mastery of several types of
riding.
12. HORSEBALL
• Horseball is a fast-paced game,
involving players within a team passing
and throwing a ball on horseback.
• It's a team sport, where two teams of four
players (plus two substitutes) compete
against each other, and it's likened to
rugby or basketball on horseback.
13. HORSE PASSPORT
• A horse passport is documentation that
allows horse to be accurately identified and
more easily be transported internationally.
• In the United States, they are primarily intended
for animals competing in International
Federation for Equestrian Sports (FEI) events.
• In the United Kingdom, it is now required for all
equines to have a "passport" and an animal
cannot be sold without one.
14. Purpose of horse passport :
One of the purposes of horse passports is to record all
medicines that each horse receives. It is therefore essential
that the passport is available whenever a vet treats your
horse so they can record the medicines given.
Information of a horse's passport contains,
The passport is a document that: describes the animal, for
example by breed, colour, species. lists all
vaccinations, names the registered owner.
15. • Need to provide the horse’s passport at,,
• when a vet examines or treats the animal - the medication
your animal can get depends on how it’s categorised on its
passport.
• If an animal health inspector, trading standards
inspector or other enforcement officer asks to see it.
• When they sell or give the animal to someone else.