The sport is called Hobby Horsing and it’s real.

It’s an equestrian sport with an artificial horse head on a stick.

Watching a hobby horse tournament feels silly and fascinating at the same time. It’s like nothing you’ve ever seen, watching serious faces pretending to gallop on a stick with a toy horse head on the end of it.

• Origin = Finland in 2012
• Played across Europe, Australia, and some in the US
• Yearly tournaments