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

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Sportpferde Scheel

Ganderkesee, Germany

Sportpferde Scheel is a small family yard in Schönemoor near Ganderkesee, run by Uwe and Melanie Scheel together with their livery community. Its main focus is schooling and marketing talented young sport horses, and the team also helps buyers find a horse elsewhere if nothing on the yard suits. The stable offers retirement livery for horses that have finished their competition careers, including feeding, mucking out and daily turnout. Extensive pastures allow year-round grass keeping for horses that need a quieter routine.

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Pacheco Ecuestre GmbH & Co. KG

Fürstenau, Germany

Pacheco Ecuestre GmbH & Co. KG is the sport-horse business of Adolfo Pacheco, based at Kellinghausen near Fürstenau and Ankum in Lower Saxony. It specialises in the training, competing and sale of show jumpers, hunters and equitation horses. Young horses are schooled towards their future careers, and Adolfo Pacheco competes successfully with horses from four years old through to Grand Prix level. Horses belonging to private owners are also taken in for training or for sale, backed by an international network in the sport-horse market.

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Schulreitsportzentrum Fürstenau

Fürstenau, Germany

The Schulreitsportzentrum Fürstenau is a riding centre for school classes and youth groups operated by the Reit- und Fahrverein Fürstenau e.V. in the Osnabrück district. It combines group accommodation of 34 beds with riding instruction on the club's own horses and ponies. Visiting group leaders who hold a valid trainer licence may teach their own lessons on the premises. Alongside riding the club offers vaulting, carriage driving and pony games, and the house can also be booked for club weekends, family celebrations and cycling or trekking groups.

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Equine therapy

Garbe Reinhold Tierheilpraktiker Tierheilpraxis-Garbe

Friesoythe, Germany

Tierheilpraxis Garbe is a naturopathic animal practice run by Reinhold Garbe at Friesoythe-Edam in Lower Saxony, established more than 35 years ago. Horses are a core part of the caseload and the practice visits animals at their own yard or home. Treatment methods include classical homeopathy, acupuncture, animal massage and leech therapy, selected and combined for each individual animal. The practice keeps dedicated sections on horses and on breeding and riding. Garbe also teaches professional seminars for colleagues and owners.

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HN Equitation

Friesoythe, Germany

HN Equitation in Friesoythe brings together the breeding of warmblood sport horses and classical horsemanship, run by Hannah Nett. Horses and riders are trained with an emphasis on health, sound long-term development and clear communication rather than quick results. School horses schooled to a high level are available for lessons. Riders are taught to develop their own feel and perception alongside their horse's education.

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Reiterhof Schmiemann

Friesoythe, Germany

Reiterhof Schmiemann is a family farm at Friesoythe in the Oldenburger Münsterland that has been running since 1940 and today concentrates on livery horses and suckler cows. The yard offers 43 large, bright boxes, a 20x40 m indoor school, a large dressage and jumping arena, and several pastures and paddocks. The facility is usable all day and open to every riding style, from dressage and showjumping to western and leisure riding. The Reit- und Fahrverein St. Georg Altenoythe-Kampe is also based here, and the two jointly run shows (WBO and LPO), clinics across a range of disciplines, and group hacks.

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Equine therapy

Sportpferdetherapie Katharina Oestreich

Friedland, Germany

Sportpferdetherapie Katharina Oestreich is a mobile equine osteopathy practice based in Friedland, Lower Saxony, treating both sport and leisure horses. Treatment takes a whole-horse view of the musculoskeletal system and the airways, combining manual osteopathy with BEMER and VET-MAG magnetic-field applications. Owners are shown small training adjustments and simple exercises they can carry out themselves between appointments. The practice also rents out a horse transporter, and is explicit that osteopathy complements rather than replaces veterinary care in acute cases.

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Therapeutischer Reitverein St. Martin e.V.

Friedland, Germany

The Therapeutischer Reitverein Sankt Martin e.V. is a registered therapeutic riding club serving the Göttingen area from Friedland. It brings people with and without disabilities together with horses, describing its mission as helping everyone get on a horse. The club's work spans hippotherapy, curative-educational riding and ordinary riding sport under one roof. It operates as a member-run association rather than a commercial yard.

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SAGA-Reitschule Einzelberg

Friedland, Germany

SAGA-Reitschule Einzelberg is one of nine SAGA riding schools in Germany, run by Gisela and Jens Heckmann on the edge of Groß Schneen, about 8 km south of Göttingen. The yard specialises in Icelandic horses, which live in a shared open stable and go out on the pastures next to the farm whenever possible; horses of other breeds are kept in outdoor boxes, also with group turnout. Facilities include two indoor arenas and an outdoor school, and the hacking country starts directly at the gate. Riding lessons are given daily, alongside trail rides, clinics and children's and youth riding holidays throughout the year. Livery places for boarders are offered in several different housing systems.

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Reiten in Balance Göttingen

Friedland, Germany

Reiten in Balance is a riding-instruction and horsemanship business run by Ursl Hübner, a physiotherapist and qualified FN trainer, based at Friedland south of Göttingen. Lessons are given either mobile across the Göttingen district or at her own facility, and cover seat work using the Centered Riding method of Sally Swift, groundwork and horsemanship. She also takes on behavioural problems such as aggression and loading difficulties, and supports riders working through anxiety in the saddle. Intensive weekend courses with accommodation, stable seminars on requested topics and guidance for buyers viewing horses complete the offering.

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Equine therapy

Tiertherapie Nadja Rügner

Friedeburg, Germany

Tiertherapie Nadja Rügner is an animal physiotherapy and osteopathy practice for horses and dogs, based in Friedeburg in East Frisia and also serving the Rhein-Main region. Treatments combine manual physiotherapy and animal osteopathy with shockwave therapy, low-level laser, dry needling, kinesiology taping and leech therapy. An underwater treadmill is available for controlled rehabilitation and conditioning work. Sessions aim to restore mobility, ease pain and support recovery after injury or surgery.

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Veterinary clinic

Tierarztpraxis Friedeburg

Friedeburg, Germany

Tierarztpraxis Friedeburg is a practice for small animals and horses in Friedeburg, East Frisia. It offers diagnostics and targeted treatment, preventive care and vaccinations, and surgical procedures for both patient groups. Emergency cover is provided around the clock, every day of the year. The practice is led by Dr. Klaus-Ulrich Mehrens.

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Boarding facility

Pferdepension Toben

Friedeburg, Germany

Pferdepension Toben is a small family-run horse boarding yard in Horsten in East Frisia. Boxes measure 15 to 21 square metres and can be paired with an individual paddock, and horses are fed twice a day on hay and grain grown on the farm. From May to October horses have 24-hour access to summer pasture; in winter they use a large turnout paddock with a covered hay and water station. A big riding arena and a lungeing ring are free for liveries to use, and two hacking routes lead straight out into the countryside. The yard takes horses of every age, from youngsters to retirees.

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Gut Lehmweide

Friedeburg, Germany

Gut Lehmweide is a specialist rearing and boarding yard at Wiesede near Friedeburg in East Frisia. The business takes in foals and young horses for species-appropriate rearing in age-matched groups, looks after broodmares through pregnancy and foaling, and starts young horses under saddle. Around twenty hectares of pasture, large-format stabling, paddocks and prepared riding surfaces support daily turnout in all weathers. Training is deliberately unhurried and pressure-free, with individual attention every day.

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Reit- und Fahrverein Lathen e.V.

Fresenburg, Germany

Reit- und Fahrverein Lathen e.V. is a riding and driving club in the Emsland region of Lower Saxony. It provides riding lessons and keeps school horses so members without their own horse can learn, and runs courses in both classical and western riding. The club stages dressage tournaments and a spring horse festival with catering, and puts on hobby-horse activities and workshops for younger children. It reaches members and the local community through Facebook, Instagram and a WhatsApp contact line.

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AS Sportpferde

Freren, Germany

AS Sportpferde is a sport-horse training yard in Freren, Lower Saxony, run by qualified Pferdewirtin Amelie Schunke. Horses come in for schooling, covering young-horse basics, corrective work for horses with gaps in their education, and competition preparation, and are presented at shows. Riders can book individual lessons or join clinics on cavaletti and pole work, jumping and trick riding. The yard also prepares stallions for licensing and presentation, and markets horses for sale.

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Veterinary clinic

Großtierpraxis Freren | Tierärztepartnerschaft Dr. M. Krone u. Dr. R. Berning

Freren, Germany

Großtierpraxis Freren is a large-animal veterinary partnership run by Dr. M. Krone and Dr. R. Berning in Freren, in the southern Emsland. The practice looks after horses and farm livestock across the surrounding rural district, combining preventive herd and yard care with treatment of individual patients. An in-house dispensary is open on weekday mornings and afternoons, and the vets can be reached by phone or email outside those hours. The practice website is currently being rebuilt, so services are best confirmed directly by phone.

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Schunterhof

Frellstedt, Germany

Schunterhof is a small farm on the edge of the Nord-Elm at Frellstedt in Lower Saxony, run by the Henninger family. Its main equestrian activity is the breeding of Connemara ponies, with licensed stallions standing at the farm and their competition records published on the site. Youngstock is offered for sale and riding lessons are given on the yard. The family also breeds standard and miniature poodles alongside the ponies.

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Gut Neuensteden

Freiburg (Elbe), Germany

Gut Neuensteden is a breeding and training yard at Freiburg an der Elbe, set on a listed thatched half-timbered courtyard farm whose origins reach back to the seventeenth century. Hanoverian horses have been bred here in the Kehdingen region for more than three hundred years, and the yard today produces Hanoverian and Oldenburg sport horses alongside a pony breeding programme. Mares are selected for sound character, health and willingness, and foals grow up on wide pastures at the Elbe estuary. Young horses are handled from foalhood and then brought on quietly through their basic training, with homebred horses offered for sale.

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Hans-Jürgen Wiebusch

Fredenbeck, Germany

Hans-Jürgen Wiebusch Sportpferde is a sport-horse dealing and training stable in Fredenbeck-Wedel, between Bremen and Hamburg in the heart of the Hanoverian breeding region. For more than 25 years the yard has bought young, talented horses from breeding areas across Germany, produced them under saddle and sold them on to well-matched riders. The stock ranges from young show-jumping prospects and experienced course horses to young dressage horses and quality leisure horses, and the team will also source a specific horse to order. Hans-Jürgen Wiebusch competes to advanced (S) level himself and is supported by two in-house rider-trainers. A 20 x 60 m indoor school and a large outdoor arena with a jumping course let buyers try horses in any weather.

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Reitverein Fredenbeck

Fredenbeck, Germany

Reitverein Fredenbeck und Umgebung e.V. is a non-profit riding club in Fredenbeck, Lower Saxony, founded in 1920. It runs riding instruction on club school horses and ponies, and members can take on riding and care shares. The club regularly hosts clinics and continuing-education sessions with visiting trainers, and stages dressage, youth and vaulting competitions on its own grounds. Its work is carried entirely by volunteers, and new members of every age and level are welcome.

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Tack & equestrian shop

Reitsport Witt

Fredenbeck, Germany

Reitsport Witt is an equestrian retailer in Fredenbeck, Lower Saxony, stocking everything for horse and rider. The shop carries bridles and tack, bandages, headcollars, bits, rugs and saddles for the horse, and riding clothing, boots, body protectors, helmets and accessories for the rider. Saddles come from leading brands, with a used-saddle stock alongside the new ones, and the team fits saddles by appointment and reflocks them in-house. Stable and yard supplies complete the range.

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Hof Heisterbusch

Fredenbeck, Germany

Hof Heisterbusch at Fredenbeck is run by Hannelore and Dietrich Bargsten as a Pferdewirtschaftsmeister operation dealing in and breeding horses. Horses are sold with purchase advice given, and the farm breeds and rears its own young stock. Liveries are kept with pasture access, in boxes with paddocks or outside, with an indoor school and an outdoor arena on site. Riding trails run through the surrounding countryside, and a holiday house on the property is let to visitors.

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Veterinary clinic

Dr. Martina Lambrecht Tierärztin

Freden (Leine), Germany

Tierarztpraxis Dr. Martina Lambrecht is a country veterinary practice in Freden (Leine), run from a restored 1757 farmstead in the Leinebergland. Dr. Lambrecht works as a mixed practice: large animals are treated on site, whether in the stable, in the yard or out on the pasture, while small animals are seen during consulting hours at the surgery. Services cover preventive care, vaccinations, blood sampling and general treatment. Farm and stable visits are arranged by telephone appointment, and regular clients can reach her on her mobile number in an emergency.

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