Most classic form of riding is Dressage. They traced it all the way back to the 15th century. it comes from the word dresser. They use it to enhance the performance of  there horse. This is the 2ed most popular form of riding. This became a part of military training by the 20th century.

Show jumping is a frailty recent thing to the category of horse sports. France 1788 was the first time and place when show jumping was introduced into the sports . But it was another 100 years until it was official and they used  it in a lot of competitions.

Racing is a very hard sport. it takes a lot.  of time and practice to learn all the particulars. There are a lot of different types of racing such as flat racing , jockey club racing , jump racing, points to point and so much more like track racing the type you see on TV or when you go watch a horse race.

Endurance racing. Endurance racing is over 100 miles on the back of a horse. The endurance is not only with the horse it is also with the person riding the horse . They stopped doing this  until the 20th century because they say that it is really curl to the animals.

Polo is a stick and ball game.  Originated over 2000 years ago. The solders played this game to keep themselves busy after a hard day at battle .They had a horse limit the horse that they were riding had to be 13.2h/h to 15.1 h/h tall the taller the horse the more advantage you have of winning .

Hunting  is a great way of finding people. They can find people more easily and more freely they can cover more ground and everything around then they can smell things out with dogs besides them. They find it to be more interesting. They don't do this kind of hunting much anymore most people go in cars and other transportation not on horse back but it was mostly the only thing that they could do back in the day. But some people who don't live in big cities still use horses today.

Western sports are very interesting. There is a lot of different activities. This has been going on for a really long time now. They used to not only do it for competition but also for just for fun with all there friends to show off there talents on horse back. This kind of sport is trying to get into the Olympics but most people highly doubt the fact that that will happen any time soon. But they think it might. Only some people are able to do the hard working and training. It takes a really long time to train for something like that. Every day from dawn to dusk the cowboys get up and do this hard work every morning.