Working equitation

Working Equitation became an organised competitive sport in 1996, when the first European championship was held in Italy.

[citation needed] Competition events may be individual or for teams, and are in three or four parts, in this order: The Team event at the 2010 European Working Equitation Championships was won by riders from Portugal.

[4] In the second Working Equitation World Championship in Lisbon from 26 to 29 October 2006, there were teams from France, Italy, Mexico, Portugal, Spain and the United Kingdom.

[6] The third World Championship was held five years later, from 26–30 October 2011, in Lyon, France.

[7][8] At the fourth World Championship, held at Ebreichsdorf in Austria from 5–8 June 2014, there were 28 individual entries from 10 countries, but only four national teams.

Equitação de Trabalho, Portuguese working equitation