I enjoy horseback riding(equestrianism)!  Do you ride?
police work or for controlling herd animals on a ranch. They are also used in competitive sports including dressage, endurance riding, eventing, reining, show jumping, tent pegging, vaulting, polo, horse racing, driving, and rodeo (see additional equestrian sports listed later in this article for more examples). Some popular forms of competition are grouped together at horse shows where horses perform in a wide variety of disciplines. Horses (and other equids such as mules) are used for non-competitive recreational riding such as
a long investigation into the practices of professional riders, including photographs and autopsies of high-level horses with physical damage due to equestrianism. While the subject was taboo until 2015, a growing number of riders do not ride (or no longer ride) on horseback, believing that this is a source of discomfort for the animal. The sociologist Jérôme Michalon suggests that "this development is in line with that of society". However, Laetitia Bataille calls the idea that all forms of riding are abusive "extremist".