Zoe Brown's daughter Elowen loves hobby horsing so she set up Hobby Horse Adventures for her friends. Now they've been invited to Bramham Horse Trials as the unusual hobby - which can be taken very seriously on the continent - sees a sudden surge in popularity.
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00:00So my name's Zoe and my daughter's Elowen, she's 10. These are three of her multiple horses that
00:05we've acquired at the hobby horse events that we've been running. We've been running them
00:10around Yorkshire and the Midlands, we've been to Birmingham, Nottingham, we're going to Blackpool,
00:16we're at Todmorden, we're at Bramham Horse Trials, we're trying to get to as many festivals
00:22and equestrian venues and agricultural shows and country shows as possible. Our newest thing is
00:28trying to get into schools, so we'd like to do after school clubs or PE lessons or summer fairs.
00:36So we started in early January and we're called Hobby Horse Adventures. We run hobby horse events
00:41that are like pony competitions but therefore both people who ride ponies and people who've
00:46never had anything to do with ponies. It can be as young as three years old or as old as 18 years
00:50old. And in the competitions we do pony-like show jumping, we do dressage to music, we do
00:58kind of fun games and we hope to keep expanding on that. We have a high number of children who
01:04are neurodivergent and that's a really interesting avenue for us, so we're definitely looking at
01:09expanding that and maybe looking into some SEND schools and seeing if anybody would like us to
01:14come and work with them.