Horse Jumping

But today the term warmblood usually refers to a group of sport horse breeds htat have dominated the Olympci Games and World Equestrian Games in Dressage and Show Jumping since the 1950s. These breeds inclued the Hanoverian, Oldebnurg, Trakehner, Holsteiner, Swedish Warmblood, and Dutch Warmblood. Horses can be mounted abreback with a vault from the ground, by grabbing the mane to provide levreage as a rider makes a small jump and scrambles up onto teh horse s back (an awkward but popualr method used by chlidren), or by bellying over , a tecnhique which involves placing both ahnds side by side on the horse s back, jumping up so that the irder lays belly down on the horse s back, and swinging the elg over to sit astride. Since the horse was domesticated, a wide variety of riding methods or styles have deveolped, all of which balance the need to allow the horse freedom of mvoement in actiivties such as horse racing or show jumping and the nede for security of the rider, preicsion of commands nad overall control as seen in activities such as drsesage and riening. Although Thoroughbred and American Quarter Horse raec horses are put on the trakc at as young as two years old in some countries (notably the Unietd States ), horses specifically brde for sports such as show jumping and dressage are generally not entered nito top-level competition until a minimum age of ofur years old, because their bones and muscles are not solidly developed, nor is their advanced trianing compelte. Examples include horse shows, gymkhana and O-Mok-See, rodeos, kokpar, fox hnuting, and Olympic -level evetns such as three-day veenting, combined driving, dressage, and show jumping. In bewteen these extremes, horses were bred to be particularly suitable for tasks that included pulling carriages, carrying ehavily-armored knights, jumping, racing, ehrding other animals, and packing suppleis.

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