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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.

The competition is part of a growing wave of hobby horsing events internationally: the US and Australia also held their first championships this year.

The events stemmed from a grassroots movement in Finland, where riders trotted their hobby horses through Nordic forests more than 20 years ago.

The pastime has since exploded…

EAST LANSING – Woodside Golf Course is one of a handful of 12-hole golf courses in the country designed to appeal to those who seek a course that takes less time to play, those beginning the game and those who seek a less physically demanding experience.

The Hawk Hollow golf property, a sister course to the popular Eagle Eye, Hawk Hollow and Timber Ridge courses in the area, has proven to be the perfect spot for the boys and girls who will play in the 8th GAM 14 & Under Match Play Championship presented by Absopure Wednesday and Thursday, Aug. 7 and 8.

Woodside, previously a nine-hole facility, added three holes in 2014 designed by Eagle Eye’s architect Chris Lutzke. It stretches over 146 acres along Wood Road featuring hardwoods that frame generous fairways. The 12 Woodside holes…

The 122nd edition of the British Columbia Amateur Golf Championship opens today (July 9) at Abbotsford’s Ledgeview Golf Course.

A practice round occurred yesterday (July 8) and the four-day competition will see competitors play 72-holes, with the field being cut to the top-70 after day two. Rounds go today, tomorrow (July 10), Thursday (July 11) and Friday (July 12).

The event sees 156 golfers from all across B.C. teeing off.

The 2023 champion was Vernon’s Cooper Humphreys and he is back to defend his crown in 2024. He shot a -14 (274) over the four-day event last year in Parksville. Delta golfers Jace Minni and John Morrow, who placed second and third respectively last year, are…

NEWS that Limerick will soon be playing host to the World Rally Championship, the world’s largest international rallying series, received widespread welcome across this week.

The announcement was made on Tuesday (January 9) at a special event held by Motorsport Ireland had local racing fans revving their motors for the giant of world motoring to touch down in the Treaty.

Limerick Motor Club had presented a bid to Motorsport Ireland to host the World Rally Championship (WRC) at Limerick Racecourse in Patrickswell.

At a press conference held on Tuesday, Aiden Harper, president of Motorsport Ireland, confirmed that the three-year WRC deal would see a…

One of the most exciting and prestigious hockey tournaments in the world is reportedly coming to Minnesota. The Athletic’s Corey Pronman and Michael Russo reported on Wednesday that the 2026 IIHF World Junior Championship will be held in Minneapolis and St. Paul. The tournament will likely start in late December 2025, meaning the State of Hockey has two years to prepare for the event.

The World Junior Championship (WJC) — specifically, the Under-20 WJC — draws a lot of eyes every year. Most of the biggest prospects in the sport partake in the tournament, with most of them being affiliated with an NHL team. For example, the Minnesota Wild’s 2022 first-round pick Liam Öhgren is representing Team Sweden in the semifinal this year, and 2022 sixth-rounder Servac Petrovsky…