Horse riding as a sport has been known since antiquity, and Xenophon wrote the first treatise on its art, "On Horsemanship". In athletic competitions, the horse featured prominently in the contests of the ancient Greeks, taking part in two of the ten events of the Olympic Games. In athletic competitions, the horse featured prominently in the contests of the ancient Greeks, taking part in two of the ten events of the Olympic Games.
Today, horse riding, with three of its eight disciplines —Show Jumping, Dressage, and Eventing— has been an official Olympic sport since the Stockholm Games in 1912. It is one of the few sports in which women and men compete on equal terms, and the only one that involves two athletes: the horse and the rider.
The Hellenic Riding Club develops the two most widely practiced equestrian disciplines —Show Jumping and Dressage— at a high level.
