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

Stud farm

Anne Borrmann

Goslar, Germany

Classic Pony Borrmann is a small Classic Pony stud based at Gut Ohlhof in Goslar in the Harz foothills. Anne Borrmann bought her first Classic Pony in 2011, added her first broodmare a year later and bred her first home-bred foal the year after that. The stud keeps a small band of broodmares, each presented individually with her produce. The ponies are ridden by the children of the estate and driven in harness by Anne Borrmann, who holds a driving proficiency badge, and youngstock is offered for sale.

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Riding club

Reitgemeinschaft Goslar e.V.

Goslar, Germany

Reitgemeinschaft Goslar e.V. is a riding club in Goslar at the northern edge of the Harz. It is a member of the Pferdesportregion Harzvorland and of the Pferdesportverband Hannover. The club is organised into three sections: riding, hunt riding (Jagdreiterei) and vaulting. It keeps its own club horses and publishes an annual calendar of clinics and events. Members compete regularly and the club records their results each season.

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Reiterhof Falada

Goslar, Germany

Reiterhof Falada is a four-sided courtyard livery yard near Goslar in the Harz foothills, run by the Stöbich-Schaller family. It keeps around 25 privately owned horses in individual boxes with year-round turnout on winter-proof paddocks and adjoining pastures, and every horse is hand-fed and checked several times a day. Riders have a 20 x 40 m indoor school, an outdoor arena of the same size, a 16 x 18 m lunging hall and direct access to the Harlyberg hacking country. Regular dressage and jumping lessons are given by visiting trainers, alongside clinics in groundwork, double lunge and equine first aid. The yard also organises its own shows, Christmas rides and social riding events.

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Veterinary clinic

Tierärztliche Gemeinschaftspraxis Meetschow

Gorleben, Germany

Tierärztliche Gemeinschaftspraxis Meetschow is a mixed veterinary practice in the Meetschow district of Gorleben in the Wendland, run by Merle Sellenriek and Thorsten Anton. The team treats horses alongside cattle, small ruminants and companion animals, working both from the surgery and on ambulatory visits. The practice also operates its own trichinella testing laboratory. Note that it is currently not accepting new equine clients because of staffing constraints.

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Meyers Pferdewelt

Gorleben, Germany

Meyers Pferdewelt, trading as Pferdezucht & Pension Meyer, is a family-run breeding and livery yard at Meetschow near Gorleben in the Wendland. The yard describes its approach as natural, appropriate to the horse and honest, with individual care for riding horses, broodmares and foals. It runs its own breeding programme and offers livery places to private owners. Horses bred on the farm are offered for sale.

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SB Horsetraining

Golmbach, Germany

SB Horsetraining is a western riding yard at Klappe in Warbsen, Lower Saxony, run by trainer Stefanie Bull. She teaches riders from complete beginners to advanced level, individually or in groups of up to four, on her own well-schooled Quarter Horses or on the rider's own horse. The yard also takes horses in for training, with an emphasis on a calm, force-free foundation education. Day and weekend clinics, riding-badge courses, children's holiday weeks, youth camps, share-horse arrangements and professional support at shows round out the programme.

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Trippel Trappel Hof gUG (haftungsbeschränkt)

Goldenstedt, Germany

Trippel-Trappel-Hof is a non-profit equine-assisted therapy and education yard in Goldenstedt, Lower Saxony, managed by Mandy Hibbeler. It offers riding therapy, riding pedagogy and horse-assisted development work for children, adolescents and adults, including participants with additional needs. Sessions run individually or in small groups with horses trained specifically for this work, and begin with an introductory appointment. The yard also hosts birthday parties for children built around contact with the horses.

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Veterinary clinic

Tierarztpraxis Gnarrenburg

Gnarrenburg, Germany

Tierarztpraxis Gnarrenburg is a mixed veterinary practice in Gnarrenburg in the Rotenburg (Wümme) district, run by Jan Langanke. Its equine work is aimed at leisure keepers of horses and donkeys, and for cases beyond its own scope the practice works closely with specialised ambulatory equine practices and clinics in the region. The farm-animal side looks after dairy and suckler-cow holdings, helping farms establish standardised working routines and regular control points from calf rearing through feeding to milk quality. Small-animal consultations cover dogs and cats as well as rabbits, guinea pigs and other small rodents. An emergency number is staffed outside normal opening hours.

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Pferdetherapie Friederike Bathe

Gnarrenburg, Germany

Friederike Bathe runs an equine therapy practice in Gnarrenburg in the Elbe-Weser region. Her work combines hoof orthopaedics, equine osteopathy, physiotherapeutic training and feeding advice, and she treats causes rather than symptoms. Positive-reinforcement training is used to build what she calls movement-competent, self-confident horses. Rehabilitation horses can stay on site, and she runs courses for owners who want to carry the work on themselves.

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Riding club

DEUTSCHER SHIRE HORSE VEREIN E.V.

Gnarrenburg, Germany

The Deutscher Shire Horse Verein e.V. is the German breed association for the Shire Horse, formed to preserve and promote the breed in Germany. It maintains the national studbook, coordinates foal registration through an online reporting system, and runs stallion licensing and breed inspections. Members have access to a stallion directory, a horse marketplace, breed standard documentation and guidance on care, feeding and housing. The association also organises shows and exhibitions and publishes its magazine "Sanfte Riesen".

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Equine therapy

Hof Ehrichs

Gnarrenburg, Germany

Hof Ehrichs in Gnarrenburg is the base for Ann-Christin Ehrichs's horse-assisted coaching (pferdegestütztes Coaching), where the horses give unfiltered feedback that helps clients shift perspective. Individual coaching sessions are the core offering, with retreats held on selected dates. Two holiday apartments on the farm, "Nord" and "Süd", accommodate guests attending. The property sits in open countryside with walking routes directly from the door.

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Offenstall Versteegen

Gleichen, Germany

Offenstall Versteegen is a family-run farm at Gleichen-Sattenhausen near Göttingen that keeps around thirty horses in open stabling all year round. Horses live in groups with permanent access to paddocks, out on pasture in summer and on reinforced outdoor areas with open stalls in winter. Alongside full livery the farm offers short-stay horse-hotel places, breeding and youngstock rearing, and sells horses. The yard is also available for events.

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Sarah Lojewski - Ausbildung für Pferd & Mensch

Gleichen, Germany

Sarah Lojewski runs a horse-training and rider-education business in the Göttingen area of Lower Saxony. Her work covers the schooling of horses as well as behaviour training and consultation for horses with handling or trust problems. Owners are coached alongside their horses, and the programme is offered both as individual work and as course formats. Prices, conditions and course dates are published on her website.

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Equine therapy

Pferdeosteopathie und Hundeosteopathie - Nele Niesse

Gleichen, Germany

Nele Niesse runs an osteopathy practice for horses and dogs at Gleichen-Reinhausen near Göttingen. She is a DIPO-certified equine osteopath and HOP-certified canine osteopath, and treats both species with manual osteopathic techniques. Dry needling is offered alongside osteopathy for horses and dogs alike. Her published guidance explains when treatment is worthwhile and how a session runs, and prices are listed openly on the site.

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Tierärztliche Praxis für Akupunktur am Pferd

Gleichen, Germany

Tierärztliche Praxis für Akupunktur am Pferd is run by Dr. med. vet. Johanna Schmidt from Klostergut 1 in Gleichen near Göttingen and works exclusively with horses. The practice uses acupuncture both to treat chronic conditions and as a preventive health measure, taking the view that nearly any horse can benefit rather than limiting the method to pain management. Each horse is assessed as a whole before the acupuncture points are chosen, and the vet deliberately allows plenty of time for handling and examination. Dr. Schmidt qualified in veterinary medicine in Berlin and Gießen and spent fifteen years working in equine clinics and practices before founding her own.

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Reitanlage Klostergut Diemarden

Gleichen, Germany

Reitanlage Klostergut Diemarden is a family-run equestrian facility that the Isenberg family has operated on the historic Klostergut estate in Diemarden, Gleichen, for more than 25 years. The yard was extended in 2019 with a 20 x 60 m indoor arena and 30 stables, of which 18 are paddock boxes and 12 are internal boxes, all let with full board. Facilities include a lunging ring, a covered lunging arena, a 35 x 50 m floodlit outdoor arena, a solarium, a large wash bay and trailer parking. Paddocks and summer pastures adjoin the yard directly, with an optional grazing service. Guest boxes are available and the surrounding countryside offers extensive hacking.

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Dr. Wolfgang Preiser

Gleichen, Germany

Fellponygestüt Elbickerode, trading as Unity Fell Ponys, breeds Fell Ponies from English bloodlines at Elbickerode in the Gleichen municipality south of Göttingen. With around twenty ponies on the farm it is one of the larger Fell Pony breeding operations in Germany. Youngstock spend four years growing up in the herd and a further year in basic training before being offered for sale as dependable leisure partners. The yard also offers riding lessons, riding shares, care-horse arrangements and livery.

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Reitkunst Göttingen

Gleichen, Germany

Reitkunst Göttingen is the training practice of Denise Titze near Göttingen, combining classical riding art (Reitkunst) with the TTEAM and TTOUCH methods and Feldenkrais body awareness. Her teaching centres on body-conscious learning for both rider and horse, working from the principle that horses and people learn better without stress. Lessons cover ridden work as well as groundwork, lunging and in-hand work, with an emphasis on clear, consistent aids. TTOUCH bodywork sessions are offered for horses and also for dogs. She teaches individuals and runs courses, focusing on realistic goals, improved self-perception and attention to detail.

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Arkusberg Dienstleistungs- GbR, Pferdepension

Gleichen, Germany

Pferde am Arkusberg is a boarding yard near Gleichen in southern Lower Saxony that keeps horses in open herd husbandry rather than in individual boxes. Two separate herds, one of geldings and one of mares, live out all year with roughly two kilometres of tracks available and about four hours of daily pasture from May to October. Feeding is managed with rationed, low-sugar hay and every horse is watched individually by the resident team. Training and lessons are available on site with resident trainer Sarah Lojewski.

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Riding school

Reit- und Ponyhof Rittmarshausen

Gleichen, Germany

Reit- und Ponyhof Rittmarshausen is a family-run riding school between Göttingen and Duderstadt, recognised as an approved riding establishment by the German Equestrian Federation (FN). Ten school horses and ponies carry pupils from the Reitkindergarten at age four, through lunge lessons from age six, into small group lessons of four riders arranged by age and experience. Lessons mix dressage, jumping and cross-country work with pony games, quadrille riding and agility courses, and adult beginners and returning riders are taught individually. The yard has an indoor arena, two outdoor arenas including one of 1,500 sqm, direct access to fields and forest for hacking, a heated riders' room and a tack room. It runs an annual riding festival and regular riding-badge courses.

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Equine therapy

Pferdetherapie Nele Fleck

Glandorf, Germany

Pferdetherapie Nele Fleck is an equine therapy practice in Warendorf specialising in osteopathy for horses. Nele Fleck works as a Pferdeosteopathin using hands-on techniques to release blockages and activate the horse's own healing capacity, complemented by acupuncture. Each horse is assessed and treated individually rather than to a fixed protocol. She works in close cooperation with veterinarians and other therapists so that treatment fits into the horse's overall care.

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Equine therapy

Osteopathie für Pferde - Simone Kemper

Glandorf, Germany

Simone Kemper runs a mobile osteopathy and physiotherapy practice for horses from Glandorf in Lower Saxony. Treatment targets joint blockages, muscular tension and restricted movement, with the aim of restoring mobility and quality of gait. The service range covers structural osteopathy, fascia therapy, dry needling, kinesiology taping and physiotherapy. Owners are also supported with therapeutic training so that rehabilitation continues between appointments.

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Veterinary clinic

Tierarztpraxis Glandorf, Dr. Erpenbeck & Dr. Große Kettler-Bunte

Glandorf, Germany

Tierarztpraxis Glandorf is a mixed large- and small-animal practice in the southern Osnabrück district, run by the same family for four generations. Horses are treated alongside cattle, pigs and poultry, and the practice also runs a full small-animal consultation. A veterinary in-house pharmacy supplies medicines directly to clients. Round-the-clock emergency cover is available to established clients, and the team keeps up to date through regular continuing education.

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Veterinary clinic

Herbert Ehrenbrink Tierarzt

Glandorf, Germany

Tierarztpraxis Ehrenbrink is a mixed veterinary practice in Glandorf in the Osnabrück region, led by veterinarian Herbert Ehrenbrink, with a dedicated equine section. Horses are seen for vaccinations, lameness diagnostics, dentistry, dermatology and bioresonance therapy. The practice also serves farm livestock and small animals, and runs its own diagnostic support with laboratory, ultrasound and video equipment. Ambulatory visits are part of the service, so horses can be attended at their own yard.

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