Frankfurt hosting first German hobby horsing championship

A participant clears the bar during the first German Hobby Horsing Championship in Frankfurt (Michael Probst/AP/PA)

Germany’s first hobby horsing championship will gallop through Frankfurt this weekend, with hundreds of young riders competing in time jumping, style jumping and dressage on their wooden stick horses.

Roughly 300 riders — mostly youngsters, but there are about 20 adults enrolled — are expected to canter around a gymnasium on Saturday and Sunday, watched by 1,500 spectators.