During past centuries the Army has been worldwide the main promoter of “equestrian art” as consequence of the need to use Cavalry’s Units as a more and more fast and effective war tool. Nowadays Cavalry’s traditional function belongs to tanks and helicopters Units. Nevertheless, in some Countries horse riding is still practiced by military personnel as sport discipline and excellent riders compete at the highest level. In spite of a progressive reduction of the practice of horse riding inside modern Armed Forces (within European ones in particular) our sport competitions are being held with frequency close to those of other CISM very popular sports. First CISM World Championship in Jumping was held in Vienna (AUT) in 1969. Jumping has been and continues to be the most practiced discipline among equestrian disciplines still present inside Armed Forces. Most of past championships have had Jumping as only discipline. Only few editions hosted, as additional disciplines, Eventing and Dressage both included in our sport Regulations together with Endurance, fourth discipline. Till the year 2002, the organization of World Championships was exclusive property of European continent except for Syria 1996 and Lebanon 1998. Participations of former Championships were almost continental (except for very few cases) as consequence of high costs of horses transport and different climatic conditions. When Chile with his 14th Championship opened in 2002 the way to South America, in order to reach minimum participation foreseen for all sports in CISM World Championships (8 Nations) and to encourage participations from other continents, we turned to new formulas and innovations. Possibility of hiring of horses locally, either through the Organizing Committee or from private suppliers, was introduced for participants coming from far Nations. Following the success of these initiatives, we confirmed them in 2003 (BEL), 2005 (ARG) and 2006 (BRA). During these last years, military horse riding has received severe downsizing and reshaping everywhere. In many Countries, some of them with long and important traditions, military horse riding has disappeared. Innovations have allowed us to increase the number of participants and even to reach level of participation never reached before. Organizational continuity and increase of participants represent for a great success, in spite of actual “environmental conditions”. Further innovations have been recently introduced: regional competitions (Luxemburg 2006) and special competitions for Cadets (Brazil 2006). From a sport point of view, Regional and Continental Championships must be promoted and encouraged as they allow riders to take part with their own horses and to show the very good technical level of military horse riding.