At a training session for the hobby horse competition in Eumundi, Queensland are, top left to right: Natalie, Adelaid, Khloe, Lily. Front left to right are: Asha, Jasmine Oakes and Jasmine Francis. Photograph: Paul Hilton/The Guardian
One has a rainbow mohawk; another sparkly eyes. There are colourful bridles and noble forelocks and funky ear covers. There’s even a dragon among the wondrous creations of Hobby Horse Riders Australia . Back in 2017, Coralie Kedzlie and Matti Somani saw videos of the Finnish championship. It’s a serious spectacle, with athletic riders clearing higher and higher obstacles in serious kit.“From there, we realised how much enjoyment people were getting from it and how useful it was in all sorts of ways,” she says.
“It’s so much easier carting a hobby horse to an event. You don’t need feed, a float, you don’t have to clean up after it,” Kedzlie says. The first known written record is in a Welsh poem by Gruffudd Gryg in the latter half of the 14th century. Hutton says Gryg was mocking the horses as a novelty and “a miserable pair of lath legs, kicking stiffly”, when he wrote: “Hobi hors ymhob gorsedd / A fu wych, annifa’i wedd”.The May Day Padstow Obby Oss festival still happens in north Cornwall, in the UK. It involves a children’s parade of their own hobby horses, before the main event of two dancing obby osses.
And there’s fantasy. Riders can make their own horses, learning to sew and create, to make characters, even play out games.
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