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Heinshof

Egestorf, Germany

Heinshof is a riding school and equestrian resort in Egestorf in the Lüneburg Heath, on an estate first documented in 1540 and within easy reach of Hamburg. Certified trainers teach group and private lessons, childrens classes, dressage and jumping, from complete beginners through to advanced competitors, on a string of quality school and sport horses. Riding holiday packages run for adults, families, couples and weekend guests, alongside guided hacks and hands-on stable days. The yard also sells and leases horses, arranges riding shares and advises clients buying a horse. Six holiday properties, a pro shop and event hosting complete the offering.

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Equine therapy

Laila van Dijk Sportmassage

Eemsdelta, Netherlands

Laila van Dijk Sportmassage is a sports massage practice in Garrelsweer in the Dutch province of Groningen, working on both riders and horses. The equine side treats muscle problems and restricted movement, with the aim of restoring and optimising freedom of movement. Sessions are tailored to the individual horse or rider rather than following a fixed protocol. The practice has been running for more than fifteen years in the north of the Netherlands and keeps its methods current through continuing education. Appointments are made by arrangement.

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Veterinary clinic

Maatschap Paardenpraktijk Eemsmond

Eemsdelta, Netherlands

Paardenpraktijk Eemsmond is a veterinary practice working exclusively with horses in the Eemsmond area of northern Groningen. It is run as a partnership by two equine vets, drs. H.J. Rutgers and drs. J.A.A. Stevens. The practice serves horse owners and yards across the surrounding villages, and appointments are made by telephone.

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Stud farm

Stal Molenhorn

Eemsdelta, Netherlands

Stal Molenhorn is a Dutch pony stud in the Groningen village of 't Zandt that has been breeding large Welsh sport ponies since 1970. The breeding programme aims at ponies with elastic, ground-covering movement, a good riding type and the temperament to carry children. Thoroughbred and registered Welsh bloodlines are used while keeping the authentic Welsh character intact. Offspring are offered for sale and the stud advises interested buyers on its breeding stock.

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Riding club

Paardensportvereniging de Fivelruiters

Eemsdelta, Netherlands

R.V. de Fivelruiters is an equestrian sports club founded in 1965 and based at Manege de Veenhoeve in Appingedam, Groningen. The club runs dressage and show-jumping competitions through both the indoor and outdoor seasons for riders from beginner to advanced level. Members pay reduced rates for use of the facilities and can pre-register for competitions. Its best-known event is the four-day Hippos Concours Appingedam held during the autumn school holidays, alongside pony camps, instruction days and jumping afternoons.

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Boarding facility

Pensionstal Hoekzema

Eemsdelta, Netherlands

Pensionstal Hoekzema is a livery yard at Delleweg in Loppersum, in the Eemsdelta area of Groningen. The stable presents itself as the friendliest and most sociable livery yard in the north, with the welfare of the horse coming first. Horses are kept in roomy stalls with group turnout on pasture through the summer and daily group turnout in winter. The yard has no separate website and publishes its news through its Facebook and Instagram pages.

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LR & PC de Menterwolderuiters

Eemsdelta, Netherlands

De Menterwolderuiters is a Dutch riding association and pony club at Nieuwolda in eastern Groningen, founded in 1973 and around a hundred members strong. It teaches riding on association horses or on members' own horses and runs vaulting lessons on Saturdays. The club owns its facility, with stabling, an indoor school, an outdoor arena and a clubhouse, and lets stalls to members. Internal competitions at F level, riding camps and children's parties fill out the year for recreational and competitive riders of all ages.

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Hippisch Centrum Proostmeer

Eemsdelta, Netherlands

Hippisch Centrum Proostmeer is an equestrian centre at Wagenborgen in Groningen, started in 2020 by Henk Boonstra alongside the family dairy farm and now a full horse business in its own right. The centre offers livery for privately owned horses and rearing for youngstock, with published tariffs and accommodation aimed at owners who want their horse well cared for. It breeds its own dressage horses from quality mares and brings the young horses on itself. Riding lessons and horse-related courses are run in partnership with instructor Marian Staal, who uses the centre as her base. Horses bred and produced at the centre are offered for sale, and visitors are welcome to come and look round.

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Paardensportvereniging Z.E.O.

Eemsdelta, Netherlands

Paardensportvereniging Z.E.O. — short for 't Zandt en Omstreken — is an equestrian sports club and riding school based at Manege Z.E.O. in 't Zandt, Groningen. The club is active in show jumping, dressage, carriage driving and western riding and welcomes members of all ages and levels. Lessons are given at the manege for riders on their own horse as well as on club horses. Competitions, clinics and club events run throughout the year.

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Manege Biessum V.O.F.

Eemsdelta, Netherlands

Manege Biessum is an FNRS-affiliated riding centre on the edge of the historic terp village of Biessum at Delfzijl in Groningen. It teaches horse and pony riding in group lessons and gives private tuition in jumping and dressage, as well as carriage-driving lessons. The facility has two indoor schools, two floodlit outdoor arenas, stabling for around seventy horses and ponies, a wash bay, a solarium and some thirteen hectares of grazing, and it takes livery horses. The yard breaks horses to saddle and to harness, guides buyers through purchases, and runs a pony team playing horseball. Its stalhouderij hires out carriages, wedding coaches and a horse tram.

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Stud farm+1

Stal Vrieling

Eemsdelta, Netherlands

Stal Jur Vrieling is a show-jumping yard in Holwierde, Groningen, trading internationally as Jur Vrieling Sporthorses. The stable breeds, produces and campaigns jumping horses, competing at national and international level up to 1.40m and 1.50m classes. Young and made horses from the yard are offered for sale to sport riders. Training and competition results are documented in an ongoing photo and video record on the site.

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Stal Bakker

Eemsdelta, Netherlands

Stal Bakker is an equestrian business in Zijldijk in the Groningen province of the Netherlands. Having wound down its riding-school activities, the yard now operates as a livery stable, offering stabling and daily care for owners' horses. It also trades horses and runs a small breeding programme alongside the livery side. The team publishes references from clients and photographs of the yard on its website.

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Transport / hauler

Ammerländer Pferdetransport

Edewecht, Germany

Ammerländer Pferdetransport is an owner-operated horse transport service based at Osterscheps near Edewecht in the Ammerland. Mario van Freeden runs a Cheval Liberté Touring Country trailer with a Pullman independent-suspension chassis, a full partition and live camera monitoring, carrying up to two horses of up to 1.80 m at the withers. The low tailgate and front unload ramp make loading straightforward and also suit loading training. He works for private owners, breeding farms, studs and veterinary practices, and will accompany a horse through a clinic appointment. The business holds an official animal-transport authorisation under EC Regulation 1/2005.

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Stud farm+2

Gestüt Bretz

Edewecht, Germany

Gestüt und Tinkerhof Bretz is a pony stud at Edewecht in Lower Saxony, run by Kirsten and Tobias Bretz. The farm breeds and sells Dartmoor ponies, Tinkers and Shetland ponies from a herd of around eighteen animals, and stands its own stallions at stud. Alongside the breeding operation it runs an agricultural contracting arm offering wooden fencing, mulching and hay and straw haulage. Hay and haylage are sold direct from the farm. Fresh eggs are delivered weekly in the local area.

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Gestüt Stiekema

Edewecht, Germany

Gestüt Stiekema is a breeding and rearing yard in Edewecht-Jeddeloh, East Frisia, run by Marcus Stiekema. The business specialises in raising young horses on around 70 hectares of pasture, managing broodmares through the covering season and standing stallions at its own stallion station. Owners can send mares for breeding management and foaling, and place youngstock in age-matched groups for balanced development. Advice on matings using internationally proven bloodlines is part of the service.

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Veterinary clinic+1

Dr.med.vet. Dorothee Müller

Edemissen, Germany

Tierarztpraxis Eddesse is a mixed practice for large and small animals at Edemissen in Lower Saxony, led by Dr. med. vet. Dorothee Müller. On the equine side it provides ambulatory examination and treatment of horses, vaccinations, pregnancy checks, blood sampling, equine passports and microchipping. The practice also runs a broad complementary-medicine programme for horses: chiropractic, acupuncture and acupressure after Penzel, laser and magnetic-field therapy, COB inhalation therapy, leech therapy and bioresonance, supported by an in-house laboratory and X-ray and ultrasound imaging. A certified animal physiotherapist joined the team in 2026 for rehabilitation, pain management and mobility work. Cattle, sheep, goats and farmed deer are looked after alongside the small-animal clinic.

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Tierarztpraxis Papenhorst

Edemissen, Germany

Tierarztpraxis Papenhorst is a family-run mixed practice in Edemissen-Alvesse led by Dr. Jörg Heide. It treats horses, pigs including mini pigs, and large and small ruminants alongside companion animals, and holds a dedicated consultation hour for equines. Diagnostic capability includes digital radiography, echocardiography with ECG and colour-doppler ultrasound, supporting lameness work-ups, ophthalmology and pre-purchase examinations with written reports. Surgical work covers trauma surgery, castration, obstetrics and caesarean section, and the practice also offers dentistry, herd management and breeding advice. A 24-hour emergency service is available.

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Riding club

Reit-und Fahrverein Blumenhagen e.V.

Edemissen, Germany

The Reit- und Fahrverein Blumenhagen e.V. is a riding and driving club at Blumenhagen in the municipality of Edemissen, Lower Saxony. Its main fixture is an annual show-jumping tournament with classes up to medium (class M) level, which also hosts the district championships of the KRV Peine. The club runs clinics such as double-lunge courses with visiting trainers, and organises social riding events including an autumn rally and outings to the nearby Redwood Trail obstacle course. Club news, entry forms and documents are published on its website.

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Tack & equestrian shop

Reitsport Glindemann

Edemissen, Germany

Reitsport Glindemann is a specialist saddle shop in Wehnsen near Edemissen, serving the Hannover, Braunschweig, Celle and Wolfsburg region. With around 35 years in the trade, Astrid Glindemann fits and supplies individually adapted saddles from Passier and Kentaur, including models with flexible trees and adjustable head irons. A stock of thirty to forty used saddles and a range of general riding equipment is kept alongside the new saddles. Services include saddle-fit assessments, reflocking and maintenance, seat-training saddles and on-site consultation visits to the customer's yard.

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Unsere kleine Ranch

Edemissen, Germany

Unsere kleine Ranch is the yard behind Life Way Dreams, the horse training and consulting practice of Jennifer Reupke in Edemissen, Lower Saxony. She advises owners on housing, feeding and day-to-day management, and builds individual training plans covering groundwork, backing and ridden basics. The approach is aimed at horses that are anxious, difficult or recovering from health problems, and stresses trust and clear communication over pressure. Course material and coaching are also delivered online through a member area.

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Riding school

Kinder-Reiterhof v. Loesch-Sponagel

Edemissen, Germany

Kinder-Reiterhof v. Loesch-Sponagel is a family riding centre for children and young people in Edemissen, Lower Saxony, run by Carmen v. Loesch-Sponagel. During the school holidays it runs seven-day residential riding weeks with round-the-clock supervision, daily lessons and a supporting leisure programme. In term time there are weekly group lessons in which children fetch, groom and tack their own ponies before riding in the outdoor arena, the indoor school or out on the trails, with jumping offered at the end of a lesson. The yard also hosts school trips, providing accommodation, meals and a daily group lesson, including for children who have never sat on a horse.

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Riding school

Reitschule Karina Kobbe

Edemissen, Germany

Reitschule Karina Kobbe is a riding school in Edemissen, Lower Saxony, offering lessons for riders of different levels alongside its own school horses. The programme covers regular riding instruction, preparation for the German FN riding badges (Reitabzeichen), guided hacks and holiday riding camps. Children's riding holidays are a core part of the offering, combining lessons with time spent caring for the horses.

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Riding school

Reit- und Ferienhof Philipp

Edemissen, Germany

Reit- und Ferienhof Philipp is a riding farm at Klein Blumenhagen in Edemissen, between Peine and Braunschweig on the edge of the Südheide. Riding instruction is its core business, taught across age groups on a string of around fifteen school horses. The farm also runs riding holidays and summer camps, a pony play group and a pony club, and hosts pony birthday parties and visits from school and kindergarten groups. Carriage rides, including a wedding carriage, are offered on request.

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Buscheberger Hof

Echem, Germany

Der Buscheberger Hof is an equestrian yard established in 2021 on the Elbe in the Lüneburg district. It teaches riders in both private and group lessons and takes horses in for schooling (Beritt) as well as rehabilitation work. Horses are kept in boxes with paddocks, and the yard has a riders' lounge and its own small saddlery and riding-wear counter. The team also runs a quarterly "Center of Competence" event series, an annual riding tour and its own tournaments and gatherings.

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