Writing
Horseball Writing
Longer pieces on the parts of the sport that a rulebook summary leaves out.
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How Horseball Is Refereed, and Why One Official Is Mounted
Two referees, one mounted and one seated, connected by radio. Horseball refereeing is unusual, and the reason is a five-metre circle around the ball.
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What a Horseball Horse Actually Needs to Do
Stop, turn, accept contact from another horse, and stay straight while the rider hangs off the side at a gallop. What horseball asks of a horse.
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The Pick-Up: Horseball's Hardest Skill, and Its Strictest Rule
Lifting the ball off the ground at a gallop is the skill horseball is built on. Rule 15 governs it in more detail than any other single action in the sport.
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Where Horseball Is Played: the Nations on the Record
France, Spain, Portugal, Belgium and Italy carry the sport, with Argentina, Brazil and Canada arriving in 2008. What the record shows about its geography.
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Horseball for Children: What Annex A Changes
The Sport Rules carry a full annex adapting horseball for young riders and ponies: smaller pitch, lower goals, a different ball, restricted tackling.
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How to Read a Horseball Result
Roman numerals, a host city and three nations. Horseball results are recorded in a compact format that carries more information than it looks like it does.
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Sixteen From Sixteen: Why France Wins Every European Title
France won all sixteen European Senior Championships on record. The explanation is not talent, it is a fifty-year head start inside riding-school teaching.
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Horseball Equipment: the Ball, the Strap and the Host List
Six handles, 65 centimetres of circumference, and a strap between the stirrups. The horseball equipment list is short, and one item created the sport.
Elsewhere
Equestrian sport news elsewhere
- Facebook seller mis-sold me an unsafe horse that kicked my daughter in the head
- From saddle to paddle for woman with spine injury
- GB eventing team claim record-breaking world title
- Fry and Glamourdale complete historic double-double
- GB's Fry claims historic double-double at Worlds
- Fry and Glamourdale win world individual dressage gold
Headlines from BBC Sport, equestrian.