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Landsmót in Iceland!


  • Reykjavik Iceland (map)

Join us in Iceland for a week long icelandic horse competition to watch the best of the best horses and riders compete!

The National Icelandic Horse Competition, known to Icelanders as the “Landsmót” is the largest outdoor sporting event in Iceland showcasing Iceland’s best horses and riders.

The main theme of the event is an all Icelandic Riding Horse Competition where riders of all ages and their horses compete in an event composed of showing all five gaits of the Icelandic horse,  Tölt, trot, walk, gallop and Pace.  The parallel theme is a competition and show of breeding horses, were the best stallions and breeding mares are shown and rated.   As Tölt is the most treasured gait of the Icelandic horse, the highlight of the Landsmot is always the Tölt Competition where the best Tölt horses and their riders compete for the Landsmot Tölt Champion Title.