The topic of this paper is "Therapeutic riding and children with developmental difficulties". After the introduction, in which the personal motives of selecting this topic are indicated, the paper explains who the children with developmental difficulties are and what kinds of developmental difficulties there is. Children with disabilities are children with persistent special needs, and are related to innate and acquired damage of different types and degrees. This may be: hearing impairment, visual impairment, various brain, muscular and nervous disorders, disability, etc. In addition, the paper explains in detail the therapeutic riding, in which cases of developmental difficulties we use therapeutic riding and the positive aspects of therapeutic riding. Therapeutic riding has been used for many years as a proven method of rehabilitation for people with special needs, physical or mental disabilities in developing and improving their skills and general physical and mental health. Therapeutic riding is best defined as horse rehabilitation using horses and activities involving horses. This type of rehabilitation achieves a wide range of behavioural, social, emotional, physical, cognitive, mental and educational advances in the treatment of handicapped persons, especially children. People of all ages can benefit from therapeutic riding, with different forms of physical, mental and / or emotional impairment. Therapeutic riding achieves significant progress in a large number of disorders, conditions and illnesses (Down syndrome, autism, hyperactivity (ADHD) and many others).