Horse racing has ancient roots with humans wanting to determine the fastest horses and gambling on races having a long history. Dressage involves progressively training horses to perform natural movements like collection, impulsion, and obedience on command. Equestrian events were first included in the modern Olympics in 1900 and by 1912 included the three main disciplines seen today - eventing, show jumping, and dressage. Eventing combines dressage, show jumping, and cross-country jumping. Show jumping tests the ability of horse and rider to jump obstacles in sequence with the fewest mistakes. The FEI governs international equestrian competition including Olympic events plus combined driving, endurance, reining and vaulting at the World Equestrian Games

1. Breaking in

2. The origin of the sport

3. Horse racing origin
Humans appear to have long expressed a desire to
know which horses were the fastests, and horse racing
has ancient roots.
Gambling on horses races appears to go hand-in hand
with racing and has a long history as well.

4. DRESSAGE
Dressage involves the progressive training of the horse
to a high level of impulsion, collection, and obedience.
Competitive dressage has the goal of showing the horse
carrying out, on request, the natural movements that it
performs without thinking while running loose.

5. Olympic games
Equestrian events were first included in the modern
Olympic Games in 1900.
By 1912, all three Olympic disciplines still seen today
were part of the games.
The following forms of competition are recognized
worldwide and are a part of the equestrian events at
the Olympics.
They are governed by the rules of the International
Federation for Equestrian Sports (FEI).

6. FORMS OF COMPETITION
Eventing, also called combined training, horse trials,
the three-day event, the Military, or the complete test,
puts together the obedience of dressage with the
athletic ability of show jumping, the fitness demands
the cross-country jumping phase.

7. Show jumping
Show jumping comprises a timed event judged on the
ability of the horse and rider to jump over a series of
obstacles, in a given order and with the fewest refusals
or knockdowns of portions of the obstacles.

8. Show jumping (2nd part)
In the last-named, the horses jump over fixed
obstacles, such as logs, stone walls, banks, ditches, and
water, trying to finish the course under the "optimum
time."
There was also the 'Steeple Chase' Phase, which is now
excluded from most major competitions to bring them
in line with the Olympic standard.

9. International
disciplines
The additional internationally-sanctioned but non-
Olympic events governed by the FEI as international
disciplines are: combined driving; endurance; reining;
and vaulting.

10. International
disciplines (2nd part)
These events are recognized internationally and are
part of the FEI World Equestrian Games every four
years, and hold their own individual World
Championships in other years.
The FEI also grants regional recognition to horse-ball
and tent pegging