ABSTRACT
Since the 1960s, there has been a strong development of practices involving Equidae and people with physical and/or mental troubles in the western world. First used as an adapted version of horseback riding for people with mobility disabilities, such practices have progressively integrated rehabilitation purposes, then clearly therapeutic purposes. In the process, such practices have gradually taken their distance from horseback riding as a sport or a leisure activity to the benefit of a new relationship with the horse—one that was relatively emancipated from the frame of the equestrian social world.
