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Islandpferde-Hölterhof

Geeste, Germany

Islandpferde Hölterhof is an Icelandic-horse breeding yard and riding school at Dalum in Geeste, Emsland, run by Manfred Krüssel and in operation for more than forty years. The farm breeds from its own stallions and mares, raises youngstock and sells both trained and untrained horses. Certified instructors give riding lessons on the yard and at riders own premises, and external courses run through the year. Guided hacks through the surrounding Emsland countryside and boarding in boxes or at pasture complete the offer.

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Stud farm

Die feine Pferdezucht

Garstedt, Germany

Die feine Pferdezucht is a small private sport-horse breeding operation run by Dörthe Westermann at Garstedt in Lower Saxony. It breeds registered sport horses from a carefully selected mare base, planning each mating individually. The horses bred on the farm are also produced and shown in competition. Every mare, foal and young horse has its own profile and record on the farm, and youngstock is offered for sale.

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Veterinary clinic

Dr.med.vet. Bernhard Janetzko Tierarzt

Garrel, Germany

Tierärztliche Gemeinschaftspraxis Janetzko & Lange is a joint veterinary practice at Varrelbusch in the municipality of Garrel, Lower Saxony, owned by Dr. Thea Janetzko and Dr. Andreas Lange. The practice is organised into two departments: an equine practice for horses and a separate small-animal clinic, each with its own telephone line and email address. Horse owners reach the equine team directly on the main practice number. Appointments can be prepared in advance through the practice online check-in.

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Stall Elbers

Garrel, Germany

Stall Elbers is a fourth-generation family yard in Garrel, Lower Saxony, where horses have been at the centre of the business throughout. Its strengths are the breeding and the schooling of show jumpers. Training is deliberately gentle and matched to each horse's age, with species-appropriate keeping as the starting point. The riding facility offers good conditions for horse and rider alike, and the team works with patience and empathy to develop both.

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Farrier

Hufbeschlag Wedig

Garlstorf, Germany

Hufbeschlag Wedig is a family farriery in Garlstorf in the Lüneburg Heath, founded in 1996 by Karl-Jürgen "Kalle" Wedig and now run together with his son Lukas — the third generation of farriers in the family. They shoe horses of every age, from foals and youngstock through sport and leisure horses to retired veterans, and fit light shoes for carriage horses. The work covers trimming, corrective and orthopaedic shoeing, synthetic hoof repair and glue-on shoes, and they will work alongside a client's vet or clinic where needed. They do not take on sliding plates, racing plates or heavy draught work.

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Equine therapy

Pferdeosteopathie Rieke Peters

Garbsen, Germany

Pferdeosteopathie Rieke Peters is a travelling equine osteopathy and physiotherapy practice working out of Seelze in the Hannover region. Rieke Peters brings fifteen years of human physiotherapy behind eleven years of treating animals, and visits horses at their own yards across the surrounding towns. Treatment combines osteopathic technique with physiotherapy to address restrictions in movement, and dogs are treated as well. Appointments are arranged directly; the practice is currently on a break for parental leave.

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Equine therapy

Pferdeosteopathie und Pferdephysiotherapie Tabea Schneider

Garbsen, Germany

Pferdeosteopathie & Pferdephysiotherapie Tabea Schneider is a mobile equine practice based at Wunstorf, serving the Hannover and Schaumburg regions. Treatment is holistic, aimed at restoring a horse's natural balance and freedom of movement. The toolkit includes osteopathic and physiotherapeutic techniques, manual lymph drainage, fascial work, kinesiological taping, dry needling and vibration therapy with specialist equipment. Both leisure and competition horses are treated.

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Veterinary clinic

Tierarztpraxis Anke Janssen

Garbsen, Germany

Tierarztpraxis Anke Janssen is the Garbsen-Osterwald branch of Tierarztpraxis Mandelsloh, opened in 2015 behind the Gießelmannhof shopping centre on Hauptstraße. The practice runs a full equine service alongside its small-animal and farm-animal work, seeing horses at their own yard by appointment for everything from vaccination and colic treatment to castration of young stallions. A particular focus is broodmare care: swabs, cycle monitoring to time insemination, on-farm insemination and pregnancy scanning, made possible in the field by a battery-powered mobile ultrasound unit. A 24-hour emergency service is available for equine patients as well.

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HTA Weserlauf - Huf- & Pferdetherapiepraxis Ausbildungszentrum

Gandesbergen, Germany

HTA Weserlauf is a combined hoof and horse therapy practice and training centre in Gandesbergen, Lower Saxony, run by Bernd Bischoff and Petra Wieland. The team treats hoof disease holistically, with a focus on laminitis, navicular syndrome and hoof abscesses, and provides mobile integrative equine osteopathy. Horses needing intensive treatment can be stabled on site in the therapy barn. HTA Weserlauf also trains practitioners, running a two-year osteopathy certification, a hoof-care practitioner programme and shorter seminars.

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Equine therapy

Pferdeosteopathie Lehmeier

Gandesbergen, Germany

Pferdeosteopathie Lehmeier is the practice of Jorna Lehmeier at Gandesbergen in Lower Saxony, treating both horses and dogs. She offers osteopathy and physiotherapy, with each treatment planned around the individual animal rather than a fixed protocol. She works deliberately alongside the animal's vet, farrier and trainer, on the view that manual treatment alone rarely resolves a problem for good. Appointments are made directly by phone or e-mail.

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Veterinary clinic

Duchstein Dagmar Tierärztin mobile Tierarztpraxis

Gandesbergen, Germany

Tierarztpraxis Duchstein is a mobile veterinary practice run by Dagmar Duchstein from Gandesbergen in Lower Saxony. All work is carried out as house and stable calls across the surrounding region, so patients are seen in their own environment. Horses form the core of the caseload, alongside small animals, donkeys and camelids. The practice is available every day of the year, with an emergency service outside normal consulting hours.

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Transport / hauler

Böckmann Center Hagstedt GmbH

Ganderkesee, Germany

Böckmann Center Hagstedt is an authorised Böckmann dealership in Ganderkesee, Lower Saxony, specialising in horse trailers and horse trucks. New units are configured to order and a stock of used and demonstrator vehicles is kept alongside them. The workshop handles servicing, repairs and spare parts, and a hire fleet is available for owners who only need a trailer occasionally. Financing, leasing and insurance are arranged through partners.

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Farrier

Hufbeschlag + Orthopädie Dirk Fischer

Ganderkesee, Germany

Hufbeschlag + Orthopädie Dirk Fischer is a mobile farrier and equine hoof-orthopaedics business based at Ganderkesee. Dirk Fischer works from a fully equipped mobile forge and travels to clients' yards, caring for horses from foal age through to retirement. Alongside routine trimming and shoeing he takes on complex orthopaedic hoof cases across all riding disciplines and sport requirements. The business publishes hoof-health checklists and worked examples for owners, and also supports farrier training projects in Africa.

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Chiropraktik für Pferde und Hunde - Sophia Kämena

Ganderkesee, Germany

VetChiro is the veterinary chiropractic practice of Sophia Kämena, a qualified vet based in Ganderkesee in the Oldenburg district. She treats horses and dogs using chiropractic techniques adapted to each animal, working alongside conventional veterinary diagnosis. The practice is entirely mobile: treatment takes place at the owner's home or yard rather than in a clinic, which keeps stress on the animal low. The website sets out the areas chiropractic can help with, how a session runs and what it costs.

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Stud farm

Pferdezucht Cording

Ganderkesee, Germany

Pferdezucht Cording is a family horse-breeding operation at Bergedorf near Ganderkesee in the Oldenburg region. The farm keeps a group of broodmares and produces a foal crop each year, documenting each generation and its breeding plan on the site. Youngstock and made horses are offered for sale directly from the farm. Visitors interested in the breeding stock are welcome to come and see the horses by arrangement.

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Hof Tapken

Ganderkesee, Germany

Hof Tapken is an equestrian yard at Almsloh in Ganderkesee, Lower Saxony. The yard offers qualified riding instruction, therapeutic riding and livery stabling, and keeps a string of horses available for sale. Its team also works away from the farm as course designers and judges at competitions. The facility, the horses and current news are documented on the yard's own website, and visits are arranged directly with the contact person.

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Riding club

Reiterverband Oldenburg

Ganderkesee, Germany

The Reiterverband Oldenburg is the regional equestrian federation for the Oldenburg area of Lower Saxony. It acts as the umbrella body for the local Kreisreiterverbände and their member riding clubs. The federation organises the Oldenburg state championships in both riding and driving, along with a calendar of regional competitions. A dedicated youth committee runs youth series, inter-regional youth competitions and development programmes for young riders. It also coordinates sponsorship and partnership arrangements for regional equestrian sport.

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Transport / hauler

Hagstedt Pferdetransporter

Ganderkesee, Germany

Hagstedt & Roos is a family-run dealer for horse transporters and commercial vehicles from 3.5 to 26 tonnes, based at Ganderkesee between Bremen and Oldenburg. The company sells and rents horse lorries and horse trailers from manufacturers including Sodiak, MSG-Trucks, Roelofsen, Careliner and Humbaur, with a large indoor showroom of stock vehicles. Buyers can specify a build through an online configurator, and leasing and rental options are available alongside outright purchase. Owner André Roos advises personally on layout, payload and licence class.

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Venustas Reitponyzucht

Ganderkesee, Germany

Venustas Reitponyzucht breeds German Riding Ponies at Ganderkesee in Lower Saxony and has done so for around nineteen years. The stud aims at ponies that are rideable, level-headed and clear in character, bred from proven bloodlines. It offers stud service and artificial insemination, with particular experience in mares that are difficult to get in foal, and rears its own foals and youngstock. Ponies from the breeding programme are offered for sale.

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Stall Auffarth

Ganderkesee, Germany

Stall Auffarth is a competition and livery yard in Bergedorf near Ganderkesee, Lower Saxony, owned by eventing rider Sandra Auffarth. The yard takes livery horses and offers schooling under saddle and riding instruction for owners and their horses. Its own cross-country course, complete with an ebb-and-flow arena, hosts training days and eventing competitions open to visiting riders. Show jumping and eventing horses are produced and sold from the stable, which also documents its breeding successes.

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Gut Rethorn

Ganderkesee, Germany

Gut Rethorn is a livery yard and riding facility at Ganderkesee in the Oldenburg region, run by owner Christina Pilger. Horses are kept on an all-inclusive package with an emphasis on welfare, individual care and a family atmosphere. The facility offers an indoor school plus several fenced outdoor arenas, including a 40 by 80 metre jumping arena convertible to a 20 by 60 dressage court and two 20 by 40 arenas on joint-friendly surfaces, one of which stays rideable down to minus 15 degrees. Floodlighting covers the jumping arena and one of the smaller arenas, and the yard hosts visiting dressage clinics.

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Riding club

Reitverein Hohenböken

Ganderkesee, Germany

Reiterverein Hohenböken e.V. is a riding club at Reiterweg 1 in the Hohenböken district of Ganderkesee, Lower Saxony. It brings together local riders and horse owners around club riding and the shared upkeep of the grounds. Regular activities include team riding, members work days and club social events. News, fixtures and a photo archive are published for members on the club website.

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Der Bellershof

Ganderkesee, Germany

Bellershof is a family-run Icelandic and gaited horse yard in Bürstel, part of Ganderkesee in the Oldenburger Land. Horses are boarded either in an open stable or in boxes, with heated drinkers, timed feeders, hay and haylage groups and individual mineral supplementation. The facilities include a lit indoor school with sound system, an oval track, a dressage arena, a round pen and open country for hacking, plus a tack room with personal lockers. Optional extras such as eczema care, administering medication and a sick or emergency box are available, and the yard runs a programme of courses through the year.

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Fahrsport Jasmin Jentges

Ganderkesee, Germany

Fahrsport Jasmin Jentges is a carriage-driving yard and training business in Ganderkesee, Lower Saxony. Jasmin Jentges is a qualified Trainer B for driving and teaches beginners as well as competition drivers. Services include driving lessons, ground work, schooling horses and ponies to harness, and preparation for the German driving badges (Fahrabzeichen). Taster courses and pleasure-driving outings round out the programme. The emphasis throughout is on horse welfare and a harmonious partnership between driver and horse.

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