Riding Styles and Classifications

• Racing

  Track Racing	Kentucky Derby
  Timber Races:	Four foot jumps, ditches, and six foot brush.
  Steeple chases:	Three and a half foot jumps, ditches, and four and a half foot jumps.steeplechase

  
  Point to point:
  
  Has three foot jumps, three and a half foot brush and ditches. Jumps are twenty feet wide so that many horses can jump over at the same time.
  
  
  Chariot racing
  Wyoming Chariotracing
  
  

• Huntseat

  Equitation
  Hunter
  Jumpers
  Eventing
  
  

• Dressage

  Dressage
  
  
  In Dressage, horses perform elegant and graceful
  steps that look a lot like a fancy dance.
  
  
  

• Vaulting

  Acrobatic Riding
  British Vaulting
  Connecticut Vaulting

  Polo

  Polo originated in Persia in the middle ages.
  Polo is played on a grassy field 300 yards long with goal posts at both ends.
  The players use a mallet with a long handle to hit the ball.
  Polo

  Other

• Western Riding

  Trail Riding
  Roping
  Rodeo Riding
  
  Junior Rodeo Assoc.