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 ...

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.

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 ...