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Lusitano-Gestüt Quinta do Sol is a Lusitano stud in Mariatrost, Graz, describing itself as Austria's first Lusitano breeding operation. It breeds Lusitanos and keeps several breeding stallions that are also available to outside mares of any breed. The stud brokers and sells horses, offers riding lessons and courses, and runs a riding and boarding stable.
Reitstall Rath is a show jumping and training stable in Kaindorf near Hartberg, Styria, founded in 1982. The facility has an indoor arena, a large outdoor arena, boxes and paddocks. It teaches riders from beginners to competition riders, with lunge lessons, dressage and jumping lessons, courses, children's camps and rental horses. The stable also offers schooling, boarding and loading training, works with the Parelli system, and trains and sells horses from leisure to competition level.
Gut Fronleitenhof is a family-run stud in Krumbach, Austria, breeding purebred Arabian horses for sport. Breeding is led by Petra Dries and uses performance-tested stallions and mares, with quality checked through competition results. The stud keeps breeding mares and stallions, has horses for sale, and trains its young horses. The team also competes with the horses.
Islandpferde Gestüt Faltensteffl is an Icelandic horse stud in Graz Andritz, Austria. Its breeding specialises in the pure Hornafjördur line, with breeding stallions and broodmares. The horses live in groups, on pasture in summer and in an open stable in winter, and young horses spend their first summers on an alpine pasture. The site also covers riding, polo and horses for sale.
Haflinger Telser is a family-run Haflinger breeding farm, the Tröghof, in Laas in South Tyrol's Vinschgau. The family has bred Haflingers for more than 30 years, runs a stallion station with licensed stallions and trains horses. Horses are offered for sale, and riding lessons are given for children and adults. The farm also lets two holiday apartments.
Haflinger Royal is a purebred Haflinger breeding operation run by Katja Müller at the Schloss Baslan stud in Tscherms, South Tyrol. It stands Haflinger stallions at its covering station and breeds from its own mare herd, with home-bred horses carrying the suffix Royal. Young horses are reared in a herd on about two hectares, and horses are prepared for shows and licensing. The business also cares for livery horses, markets horses for sale and runs a riding school with its Haflingers for children and adults.
Marty Stables is a training centre for horse and rider in Rüti ZH that teaches classical riding in the tradition of Manuel Jorge de Oliveira. It has a 20 x 40 m indoor arena, a 20 x 60 m outdoor arena, 35 boxes with paddocks, pastures and a riders' lounge. The programme includes the Escola training courses, weekend workshops, private lessons and schooling of horses. It also runs events, sells horses and has a shop for riding clothing and books.
Reiten & Yoga organises riding holidays for adults that combine trail rides with yoga sessions designed for riders. Retreats run in the Engadin and the Jura as well as abroad, including Iceland, the Azores, Sicily, Morocco and Namibia. Rides without yoga and English-language rides are also offered, for beginners and experienced riders. The business was founded in 2014 by Catherine Lippuner.
Reithof Staubli is a training and schooling yard for Icelandic horses in Horgenberg near Zurich, run by Mara and Lisa Staubli. It offers riding lessons, horse training and correction, and children's lessons on its own Icelandic horses from about age four. The yard has an indoor arena, oval and pace tracks, boxes, paddocks and turnout stables for boarders. It breeds Icelandic horses in Switzerland and Iceland and has horses for sale.
Stall Moser is a riding yard in Rothenthurm, Switzerland, run by show jumper Marco Moser. It offers horse boarding with daily mucking out and hay or haylage three times a day. The yard provides horse training and schooling, riding lessons and courses, and show jumping training with weekly new courses. Further services include horse management, competition support, a transport service and horses for sale.
Haflinger Heissenberger is a family-run Haflinger farm in Stadtschlaining in southern Burgenland. The family has bred Austrian Haflingers since 2015 as members of the Styrian breeding association and shows its horses at studbook inspections, performance tests and foal championships. It offers riding lessons on its Haflingers with preparation for the Reiterpass, Reiternadel and licence exams, as well as riding education for young children and carriage rides. Young horses and horses for sale are listed on the site.
Josefihof is a family-run Icelandic horse farm on the edge of Liezen, operating as a riding school and breeding farm. It stands its own breeding stallions and sells horses and foals. Boarding is offered in open stables, an active stable and boxes with paddocks. Facilities include a dressage arena, an indoor hall, a round pen, an oval track and a treadmill, and school horses are available for riding lessons.
Ponyhuus Untereggen is a riding school at Stall Iltenriet in Untereggen. It offers riding lessons for children, teenagers and adults, trail rides, courses, riding camps and holiday programmes, plus care-horse and horse-share arrangements. Its aim is to train responsible leisure riders gently and without pressure or fear. The yard also lists horses and ponies for sale.
Reitanlage Birch is a riding and training facility in Gossau in the Zürcher Oberland, Switzerland, run by Vera Weber. It offers riding lessons, riding courses, livery places and horses for sale. The site has an outdoor arena of 20 by 40 metres, a lunging ring, a horse walker and 18 boxes with outdoor paddocks plus pastures. Young riders and adults are both welcome.
Zuchtstall Zwinger is an agricultural horse-breeding farm on the edge of the Neusiedler See national park in Podersdorf. It offers carriage rides into the surrounding landscape, riding lessons, ride-along sessions and boarding for horses. Horses from its own breeding are occasionally offered for sale. The farm is also home to the Reit- und Fahrverein Podersdorf Edelgrund, founded in 2003, whose riders can start in competitions.
Gestüt Rupp is a trotter stud in Enzersdorf an der Fischa, Austria, focused on harness racing. It keeps broodmares, raises yearlings and sells young trotters. The stud offers frozen and fresh semen from a list of trotting stallions for breeding outside mares. It also follows the race performances of its horses.
Reiterhof Althof is a family-run riding stable near Frauenkirchen in the Seewinkel, Burgenland. It offers riding lessons for children and adults, dressage and jumping courses, riding camps, and day and multi-day trail rides to Lake Neusiedl and into Hungary. Vaulting and carriage driving are also available, and the yard has a 20 x 60 m indoor arena. Horses can be boarded with large grazing paddocks, and holiday flats are offered alongside.
Horse Center Austria is a riding school offering lessons for children and adults. Its services include riding lessons, horse training, competition support, video analysis and marketing of clients' horses. It also runs an associated club with memberships, experience days and themed pony birthday parties.
Westernstar HD Schulz (H & D Schulz Quarter Horses) is a Quarter Horse yard in Wiener Neustadt. It stands breeding stallions and offers insemination as well as shipped chilled and frozen semen. Sale horses include all-round and leisure horses, reining and futurity prospects, and foals. The yard also offers livery, training, courses and lessons, and hosts events, with a western riding accessories shop on site.
Black Pearls Arabian Horses is a small Arabian horse breeding programme run by Birgitta and Florian Jansenberger in Hinterstoder, Austria. The stud stands the black homozygous stallion Just Magic and offers covering. Horses for sale are listed on its website, alongside its mares and offspring.
Gestüt Steinfeld is an Icelandic horse yard in St. Egyden am Steinfeld, opened in April 2024 by a family with 25 years of experience running a boarding stable. It offers horse boarding with stables and pastures. Riding lessons on trained Icelandic horses are available for beginners and experienced riders, and there is a youth team for young riders. The yard also has trained horses for sale.
NB Joy of Riding is the training business of professional rider Nicole Berghofer in Lower Austria. She offers schooling of horses of all ages, from young horse foundation training to competition readiness, and presents horses for sale. Riding lessons are offered for riders who want to develop alongside their horses. Her background is in dressage, with results up to Grand Prix and national championship titles. Training and lesson sessions are 45 minutes each.
AMB Arabians is an Arabian horse breeder based on a farm in southern Lower Austria. The site presents its stallions and broodmares along with the offspring bred each year. It also lists current horses for sale and horses already sold. Visits to the farm are possible by appointment.
ABC Ranch is the UNION riding club in Trasdorf, Lower Austria. The yard offers livery places and lists P.R.E. horses for sale. The club holds events such as open days with rider and horse shows, photo shoots and a Christmas gathering.
