Hobby Horse Adventures, Colton Leeds

Yorkshire Post

Zoe Brown's daughter Elowen loves hobby horsing so she set up Hobby Horse Adventures for her friends. Now they've been invited to Bramham Horse Trials as the unusual hobby - which can be taken very seriously on the continent - sees a sudden surge in popularity.

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00:00So my name's Zoe and my daughter's Elowen, she's 10. These are three of her multiple horses that

00:05we've acquired at the hobby horse events that we've been running. We've been running them

00:10around Yorkshire and the Midlands, we've been to Birmingham, Nottingham, we're going to Blackpool,

00:16we're at Todmorden, we're at Bramham Horse Trials, we're trying to get to as many festivals

00:22and equestrian venues and agricultural shows and country shows as possible. Our newest thing is

00:28trying to get into schools, so we'd like to do after school clubs or PE lessons or summer fairs.

00:36So we started in early January and we're called Hobby Horse Adventures. We run hobby horse events

00:41that are like pony competitions but therefore both people who ride ponies and people who've

00:46never had anything to do with ponies. It can be as young as three years old or as old as 18 years

00:50old. And in the competitions we do pony-like show jumping, we do dressage to music, we do

00:58kind of fun games and we hope to keep expanding on that. We have a high number of children who

01:04are neurodivergent and that's a really interesting avenue for us, so we're definitely looking at

01:09expanding that and maybe looking into some SEND schools and seeing if anybody would like us to

01:14come and work with them.

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