Barrel racing is an equestrian event during which a horse and rider endeavor to complete a cloverleaf pattern around three preset barrels in the quickest time. The barrels are set in a triangle in the center of the ground. The sport tests the combination of the horsemanship skills of the rider with the athletic ability of the horse.

It is among the fastest growing equestrian sports amongst women. It is usually an enormously rough sport on both the horse as well as the rider, so having the proper equipment is vital for the health of everyone involved.

The actual saddle is among the main pieces of horse riding apparel, so there are several things what you must be aware while choosing horse saddles for sale. 1st, your riding style has to be identified. Generally, this can be either English or Western, even though there are specialty saddles for activities like polo, dressage, jumping, as well as racing.

In English riding, the rider keeps one reign within each hand and tells the horse to turn through smoothly pulling one reign, which applies pressure to a bit in the horse’s mouth.

Equestrian sport has got to be one of my favourite “horsey” related sports. My main reason for becoming fascinated with this was I enjoyed watching Princess Anne, HRH of Great Britain competing, and subsequently her daughter Zara Phillips. What I didn’t realise for a while was just how long equestrian sport has been around and how it began. The history of this sport dates back over 2000 years and began with the Greeks using dressage to train their war horses.

War horses continued to be trained by using dressage and later on three day events were introduced to test their stamina further. These events consisted of Show Jumping, Cross Country and Dressage.