Hoofine · Directory

The equine trade, in one directory.

Stud farms, vet clinics, farriers, transporters, breeders, auction houses, insurers and legal counsel — every business behind the horse trade, searchable and verifiable.

2,641 businesses

Training barn

Extreme Trail Loga

Leer (Ostfriesland), Germany

Extreme Trail Loga is an extreme-trail training facility near Leer in East Frisia, run by Christine Reentjes. Horse and rider work through a purpose-built course of natural and man-made obstacles designed to build confidence, balance and surefootedness. The focus is on trust and mutual respect between horse and human rather than on competition. The trail is used for individual training sessions as well as guided group offerings.

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shop-angelika

Leer (Ostfriesland), Germany

shop-angelika is an equestrian online and mail-order shop run by Angelika Fresenborg from Leer in East Frisia. The horse range covers supplementary feed, dental care products, treats, grooming and coat care, fly, horsefly and tick protection, headcollars and cavessons, lead ropes, lunge lines and groundwork equipment, saddle pads and rugs, bridles and bits, leg protection, saddle accessories, stable and yard supplies and reflective safety items. A smaller dog range and hand-engraved glassware are also sold. The business additionally appears with a sales stand at equestrian events.

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Reitsport van Hoorn

Leer (Ostfriesland), Germany

Reitsport van Hoorn is a specialist equestrian shop in Leer, East Frisia, trading since 1990 from a historic estate with generations of horse-breeding behind it. Its 160 m² showroom carries equipment and clothing for horse and rider, plus horse feed from a range of manufacturers. The shop advises on and sells riding boots, including made-to-measure pairs, and offers saddle consultation, sales, fitting and on-site adjustment. Additional services include saddle reflocking, leather repairs, rug washing and repair, a trial-bit loan service and show-jacket hire for children.

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Tack & equestrian shop

EQUIVA Leer

Leer (Ostfriesland), Germany

EQUIVA is one of the largest equestrian retail chains in Germany, and this is its branch on Ringstraße in Leer, East Frisia. The shop carries riding clothing for women, men and children, riding boots, helmets and body protectors, alongside saddlery, rugs, grooming kit and stable equipment. More than 190 brands are stocked across the chain, plus a full horse feed and supplement range. Staff advise in person on fit and product choice, and online orders can be collected and returned in store.

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Reitverein Siebenberger Strolche e.V.

Leer (Ostfriesland), Germany

Reitverein Siebenberger Strolche e.V. is a riding club founded in 1997 in Leer, East Frisia, with more than 200 members. Trainer-led lessons cover dressage, jumping and quadrille riding, and the club also offers equine-assisted therapy sessions. Horse sponsorships let supporters back a club horse, and hobby-horsing has been added for younger participants. Events run throughout the year and riders of all levels are welcome.

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Freizeitreiterhof Sparringa

Leer (Ostfriesland), Germany

Freizeitreiterhof Sparringa is a family-run leisure-riding farm at Logaerfeld near Leer in East Frisia, worked by the fourth generation of the Sparringa family. Horses live in generous boxes or in open stabling, with daily paddock and pasture turnout as standard, and the yard is open to every breed and every riding style. Tuition is delivered together with the affiliated club Pferdefreunde Logaerfeld and ranges from children's courses to dressage and jumping lessons for beginners and advanced riders. Relaxed hacks through the surrounding countryside are offered alongside the lessons. Goats, sheep, chickens, pigeons, rabbits, dogs and a donkey share the yard with the horses.

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PferdMenschNatur

Leer (Ostfriesland), Germany

PferdMenschNatur is Britta Redeker's practice in Leer, East Frisia, built around the relationship between horse and handler. On the horse side she offers basic training, groundwork and liberty work, desensitisation, leading and loading training, preparation for farrier and vet visits, and rehabilitation stays for problem horses. She also advises on husbandry, equipment and buying a horse. The practice extends into human coaching and energy work, including horse-assisted coaching, Reiki and kinesiological testing.

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Boarding facility

Pferdehof Boekhoff

Leer (Ostfriesland), Germany

Pferdehof Boekhoff is a family-run livery yard in Westoverledingen, East Frisia. Horses can be kept in open-stable groups, in paddock boxes or in conventional boxes, according to what suits them best. The yard has two riding arenas and a covered exercise hall, and feeds hay grown organically on its own land. Extensive East Frisian trails start directly from the farm, and the atmosphere is aimed at leisure riders looking for individual care.

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Riding school

Albert Smidt

Leer (Ostfriesland), Germany

Reitstall Smidt is a family-run riding stable at Bingum on the East Frisian dike beside the river Ems, near Leer. The yard runs a riding school taking pupils from the age of six and teaches dressage and jumping on its own horses. Beginner courses run through the summer holidays, and there is a pony games squad practising slalom and barrel racing. It also puts on holiday activities for children and teenagers, including sleepover nights with the ponies and campfire evenings.

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Ride With A Smile

Leer (Ostfriesland), Germany

Ride with a Smile is a saddle specialist run by Therese Behrends-Gölitz in Leer, East Frisia. It sells saddles and riding equipment and offers fitting appointments, saddle checks and follow-up inspections, with trial saddles available on site. The business also advises on open-stall horse keeping and runs a livery yard on that concept. Workshops and courses on saddle fit and horse care complete the offering.

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Nadine Fourmont

Leer (Ostfriesland), Germany

Nadine Fourmont runs HPR Ostfriesland, an equine-assisted therapy and riding practice in Leer, East Frisia, established in 2022. She offers curative-educational riding (heilpädagogisches Reiten) for children, young people and adults, alongside ordinary riding lessons and riding coaching. Feldenkrais work combined with riding, leadership coaching and pedagogical trauma counselling round out the programme. Sessions are built around holistic personal development through contact with the horse.

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Freizeitreiterhof Anne Zimmer

Leer (Ostfriesland), Germany

Freizeit Reiterhof Zimmer is a leisure-riding yard at Logabirum near Leer in East Frisia, founded by Anne Zimmer in 1997. It teaches children, teenagers and adults, offers hacks through the surrounding countryside, and takes horses in for training (Beritt). Boarding is available in several box categories, and riders can arrange share-horse or care-horse agreements. The yard runs clinics, holiday programmes, summer camps and children's birthday parties, and works closely with the Reitverein Siebenberger Strolche e.V. Equine-assisted pedagogy and prevention courses round out the programme.

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W-Buckskin-Ranch

Leer (Ostfriesland), Germany

W-Buckskin-Ranch is a western riding yard in Leer in East Frisia, run by Folkmar and Andrea Wissmann. It gives individual riding instruction to beginners, returning riders, late starters and riders converting to western, together with groundwork and horsemanship courses. The team also starts young horses and works through problems between horse and rider, and will travel to teach at client yards. Facilities include a 20x40 m arena, a covered exercise hall, a round pen and trail obstacles, with the horses out on pasture year-round.

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Reit- und Therapiezentrum Kastanienhof

Lauenhagen, Germany

Reit- und Therapiezentrum Kastanienhof at Lauenhagen in Lower Saxony offers horse-assisted therapy and riding education for children, adolescents and adults. It is run by Melanie Smaka, a licensed Heilpraktikerin and riding therapist, and provides trauma-informed support, horse-assisted psychotherapy, body-oriented riding therapy and work on development and self-regulation. Alongside the therapeutic side the centre teaches riding and equestrian pedagogy, including pony groups for very young children and liberty work. Retreats, seminars, coaching and holiday courses round out the programme, and the team works with referring agencies and funding bodies.

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Huf und Herz Reittherapie Döpking

Lauenau, Germany

Huf und Herz is the equine-assisted therapy and riding-education practice of Insa Döpking in Lauenau, Lower Saxony. She works with children and adults in individual and group sessions, using horses to support early-years learning, speech development, motor skills and confidence. Programmes include school-readiness courses, holiday programmes, birthday sessions and family outings. She also runs team-building workshops and cooperative programmes for schools and companies.

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Reitanlage Gut Lübbersen

Lauenau, Germany

Gut Lübbersen is a working estate near Lauenau in Lower Saxony that combines farming with a livery yard for horses. Because the farm grows its own forage and bedding, boarders' horses are fed and bedded from the estate's own crop. Facilities include an indoor school, an outdoor arena, boxes, paddocks and pastures, with hacking straight off the yard. It is run by Anja and Carl-Börries Thies and caters for leisure and competition riders alike, with regular veterinary care built into the routine.

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Pferde ohne Grenzen e.V.

Lathen, Germany

Pferde ohne Grenzen e.V. is a registered non-profit riding association based in Haren in the Emsland district of Lower Saxony. It runs a riding school for children, young people and adults, working with its own school horses. Inclusion is central to how the club operates: everyone is welcome regardless of ability, and the programme is built around shared time with the horses rather than competition. The association is chaired by Martina Weller and is supported by donations, including feed for its school horses.

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Stud farm

Kramer Dressage

Lathen, Germany

Kramer Dressage is a breeding and sales operation for German Riding Ponies and dressage horses based at Lathen in Lower Saxony. Run by Reinhard Kramer, the yard keeps a small band of quality broodmares and raises their offspring for the dressage market. Young stock and produced horses are offered for sale to competition and leisure homes. Breeding decisions are made with rideability and dressage aptitude in mind.

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Dr. med.vet. Eva-Nicole Leimann

Lastrup, Germany

Back In Harmony is the veterinary practice of Dr. med. vet. Eva-Nicole Leimann at Bersenbrück in Lower Saxony, specialising in chiropractic and acupuncture for horses, dogs and cats. The chiropractic work centres on finding and releasing joint blockages and on the pain, posture and performance problems that follow from them. The acupuncture side draws on Traditional Chinese Medicine and uses several different needling and stimulation methods, chosen after a full examination. The practice also offers Low Level Laser Therapy, neural therapy and leech therapy. Dr. Leimann qualified as a veterinarian in Berlin and holds her doctorate from the Freie Universität Berlin; appointments are arranged by telephone.

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Stud farm

Veronika Käter

Lastrup, Germany

Lerettes Ranch is the small hobby breeding operation of Veronika Käter in Lastrup, Lower Saxony. The yard has bred Oldenburg horses for more than forty years from a compact broodmare band. Despite the modest scale, horses bred here have gone on to compete successfully at international level. Pedigrees of the mare line and its offspring are documented on its own site, and homebred horses are offered for sale.

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Transport / hauler

Guido Klatte GmbH & Co. KG

Lastrup, Germany

Guido Klatte is an international horse transport company based at Lastrup in Lower Saxony, operating since 1985 with direct access to the major European airports. The company organises full-service air freight for horses to destinations including the USA, Canada, Mexico, Australia, Korea, Japan, Thailand and the Middle East, as well as import movements into Europe. Services cover pre-flight paperwork, passports, laboratory results, customs and health certificates, professional grooms in flight, and veterinary checks and customs clearance on arrival. Klatte also runs its own stables for layover and quarantine and a modern truck fleet for the ground legs.

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Zuchthof Klatte

Lastrup, Germany

Zuchthof Klatte is a sport-horse breeding farm at Klein Roscharden near Lastrup in the Oldenburger Münsterland, run by the Klatte family on land the family has farmed for more than 500 years. It breeds and raises foals with an emphasis on species-appropriate rearing, and stands a roster of licensed stallions. Semen is shipped to breeders across Europe and as far as the USA and Australia. Young and trained horses are sold from the yard, which also hosts stallion presentations and breeding events.

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Böckmann Pferde GmbH

Lastrup, Germany

Böckmann Pferde is a long-established sport-horse operation at Lastrup in Lower Saxony with more than fifty years of breeding behind it. The stud stands a collection of licensed stallions and offers frozen semen alongside its own breeding programme. Riding horses, breeding stock and foals are marketed from the yard, and sport and training are led by international rider Gilbert Böckmann. Livery places with individual care are available for owners who want their horses kept and worked on site.

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Zu den Wiesen

Langwedel, Germany

Zu den Wiesen is a therapeutic riding practice at Langwedel in Lower Saxony, run by Eva Skrzypczinki. The work centres on therapeutic riding and psychomotor developmental support, using contact with the horse and its movement to help children develop at their own pace. Sessions follow the individual child rather than a fixed lesson plan. Riding instruction and project work with groups are offered alongside the therapy.

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