But it wasn’t that kind of a toy horse. She rides a hobby horse — the one with a head and a wooden dowel poking out. She made it herself and used it to take part in the Finnish Hobby Horse ...

A gaily trimmed wooden hobby horse to capture the heart of any little boy or girl and many a grown-up is the product of the ingenuity of a sister-brother team who say that it all goes back to ...

Julia Mikkonen, head of the Finnish Hobbyhorse Association, said hobby horsing combines Finnish handcrafting culture — some riders make and decorate their own sticks and stuffed horse heads ...

Popular in Finland and most recently spreading to other parts of the world, it is a sport which involves riding a wooden stick ... plans to embrace the ‘hobby horse craze’ by introducing ...

Germany’s first hobby horsing championship got underway in Frankfurt on Saturday, with hundreds of young riders competing in time jumping, style jumping and dressage on their wooden stick horses.

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A 19th-century wooden hobby horse, believed to have been made in Germany, also was among the hundreds of items offered for sale. Auctioneers Kathy Maurer Wilson and Curtis Wilson, who donated ...

Padstow's two 'Obby 'Oss - wooden hobby horse - costumes have been parading for the first time since 2019. The ancient tradition, believed to welcome the coming of summer, saw thousands of people ...