We knew a former basketball donkey named Barbara. She was so very sweet. We would stop to give her a carrot or apple, she was very used to people and very old.
Does the horse ride along in the car with its head sticking out of the roof, or do multiple horses carry each car around the course? Or! Do horses pull a wagon with the car on it?
The title of this post can be inferred that is what was meant. Inference: “Hockey is great, but when you add horses and create polo then it’s better. What else is better?”
I wanna see two nerds trying to castle while riding at a full gallop, trying to juggle the board on the back of a saddle like a first-time dad trying to tell his wife to hold on until they get to the hospital.
You should check out chessboxing it's actually very entertaining
They dont actually fight and play chess at rhe same time, they alternate, but the whiplash is wild. And you've got high-level players completely shook making blunders cause they were fighting 30 seconds ago
Not horses, but there’s a version of bullfighting in japan which is basically just a couple of bulls pushing each other around. If all goes well, neither gets hurt.
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Water Polo
With seahorses.
That's a big seahorse.
Dude, they're self conscious. Not cool.
Chess without horses is just lacking something
Swords would be a great addition too!
Knights usually.
Diving. I'm still not convinced that this is real: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diving_horse
TIL
It absolutely was. ☹️
It was and it was horrible. Horses have been, and still are, incredibly mistreated and it's sickening some practices that are still allowed today
:( indeed
Texas Hold 'Em
Five-card stud suddenly takes on a new meaning.
I am now imagining Greg Raymer in a horse with matching reptile glasses
Basketball
It kind of already exists
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buzkashi
Oh, oh, let's have human basketball played with a goat carcass, we could call it Buzbasket.
There's this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donkey_basketball
We knew a former basketball donkey named Barbara. She was so very sweet. We would stop to give her a carrot or apple, she was very used to people and very old.
Awww, she sounds darling. I absolutely love donkeys
Archery
That’s actually a thing in some asian countries.
Cool. That takes a lot of skills at once.
Not quite a horse
Dudes will see this and be like "hell yeah!"
It's straight out of Hexbear so indeed Hell Yeah
hobby horsing
Ski jump, obv.
Biathlon. Would love to see a horse fire a rifle.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horse_artillery
Now that I would watch
Damn, look at that thing go! Those bois are galloping, too
Nascar
Does the horse ride along in the car with its head sticking out of the roof, or do multiple horses carry each car around the course? Or! Do horses pull a wagon with the car on it?
The horse is in the driver seat.
I believe you just re-invented the chariot race.
This thread is terrible, the obvious answer is surfing.
Skydiving.
Most sports are worse when you add in animal cruelty imo
I'd argue that most equestrian sports would be better with bicycles. Bicycle polo is apparently a thing.
Horses are social animals that enjoy being active. I don't know where animal cruelty was mentioned here?
I do not enjoy hockey, but let's not for a second pretend that Polo is better than hockey.
I enjoy hockey, but I agree here.
I don't see anywhere that was said.
The title of this post can be inferred that is what was meant. Inference: “Hockey is great, but when you add horses and create polo then it’s better. What else is better?”
Is English your first language?
Curling, ice skating, synchronized swimming. It'd be hard to find a sport that wouldn't be improved by horses.
Greco-Roman wrestling.
I wanna see a horse get suplexed.
That's on the shirt I'm wearing right now.
I wanna see a horse DO a suplex
Chess.
I wanna see two nerds trying to castle while riding at a full gallop, trying to juggle the board on the back of a saddle like a first-time dad trying to tell his wife to hold on until they get to the hospital.
You should check out chessboxing it's actually very entertaining
They dont actually fight and play chess at rhe same time, they alternate, but the whiplash is wild. And you've got high-level players completely shook making blunders cause they were fighting 30 seconds ago
So what we're saying is: chess jousting
That one season of Yu-Gi-Oh where they rode motorbikes for no reason
Polo is Croquet on Horseback
Um… 🤯
Ice Dancing
Underrated comment.
Pole dancing?
Water polo seems cruel to the horses.
Then we should hippos instead
So water polo with murder cows?
Sure I’d watch that.
Hey there Georgie.
I love me some George Carlin.
Extreme ironing - and yes it is a sport. WE WILL NOT BE MARGINALISED!
Tennis
Them poor horse knees.
Snooker.
Ping-pong
Is your question implying that you think polo is better than hockey? No way!
Rugby
I vote paintball with horse armor.
Also the markers are mounted on the horse, turning them into agile paint tanks.
Shooting. Preferably with an equestrian event style course. Would be rather entertaining I think but spectator seating would be…. Complicated.
does exist! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy_mounted_shooting
Bowling
Baseball
Equine baseball would be awesome if the field was double the size. The speed involved in base running and outfield would be awesome
You better not bean the horse.
Imagine their strike zone.
Synchronized swimming.
Ice hockey. I mean, ice polo. The fights would be wicked.
Taekwondo
I read through all of these suggestions and up voted many. But even after reading all the others, yours still made me audibly chuckle.
Hobby horsing
That's just horsing around.
Ice hockey
Bobsledding.
"Feel the horses, feel the rhyme, get on up, it's bobsled time"
Fencing or pole jumping
Congratulations! You've re-engineered Jousting with that first one
EDIT: This is why I should't comment on things before I've had my coffee. Jousting, not Fencing
I have? How so?
One is foot-pokeystick. The other is mounted-pokeystick
EDIT: I'm a moron
Gymnastics already has horses
and then there's also this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equestrian_vaulting
Gymnastics is dressage...
Until dressage involves a backflip landing in the splits, they have a long way to go
acrobatics on horseback is most definitely a thing. and it's absolutely crazy the stunts they can pull off.
Gonna have to see the backflip before you convince me :D
KICKboxing. Obviously.
Math Olympiads (if the horses had to answer the questions, like Clever Hans).
Donkey basketball is enough of a thing that I’ve seen it played multiple times with my own eyes.
Although it’s mostly for comedy rather than genuine sport.
That was a major annual fundraising event at my extremely rural high school.
Sumo wrestling
Not horses, but there’s a version of bullfighting in japan which is basically just a couple of bulls pushing each other around. If all goes well, neither gets hurt.
Eta they call it bull sumo
Baseball
Archery
Pretty sure horse archery is still done in Mongolia
And in Japan.
Heliskiing
Diving. No...wait...they did that already.
Baseball
Politics
I agree. A good jousting tournament in place of traditional votes would be great. Put up or shut up.
Supermarket Sweep, insofar as that can be considered a sport.
bowling
Chess.
Bowling
Baseball
Cliff diving Trampoline Chess Laser tag Rugby