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

Veterinary clinic

Caroline Faber Tierärztin

Echem, Germany

The veterinary partnership of Dr. Jan-Enno Faber and Caroline Faber runs a large, modern mixed practice in Echem in the Lüneburg district. The practice treats horses alongside dogs, cats, small pets and farm livestock, so equine patients are seen as part of routine daily work rather than as an exception. Both vets are members of the Lower Saxony veterinary chamber. Appointments are made by telephone, and the practice serves owners across the surrounding Elbe region.

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EICHENHOF REITSCHULE

Ebstorf, Germany

Eichenhof is an equestrian yard at Altenebstorf in the Lüneburg Heath, run by Tanja Schulz. It offers livery for horses together with a riding school that teaches on its own school horses, plus hacking out into the surrounding heath. Facilities include a 20 x 40 m indoor school, a floodlit 20 x 60 m dressage arena, a 1,200 m2 grass jumping field, a round pen, wash box and solarium. A small petting-zoo corner makes the yard welcoming for families.

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Equine therapy

Pferdeosteopathie und Akupunktur für Pferde Miriam Leinweber

Ebergötzen, Germany

Akupunktur für Pferde Miriam Leinweber is a mobile equine practice working across the Göttingen region of southern Lower Saxony. Miriam Leinweber combines acupuncture with osteopathy and craniosacral therapy in a single holistic treatment approach. Sessions begin with a full assessment of the horse and are aimed at improving mobility, balance and general wellbeing. Her handling is deliberately gentle and adapted to each horse.

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Reit- und Fahrverein Holzerode e.V.

Ebergötzen, Germany

Reit- und Fahrverein Holzerode e.V. is a riding and driving club in southern Lower Saxony that specialises in eventing and driving. Its grounds include an indoor arena, outdoor arenas, lunging facilities and a cross-country course used for training and competition. The club runs riding instruction, clinics, cross-country training days and riding-badge courses, and stages its own eventing competitions. External riders are welcome to use the cross-country terrain by prior arrangement, and guest boxes are available for visiting horses.

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Ulrike Bencke

Düdenbüttel, Germany

Ulrike Bencke teaches biomechanically correct riding from her base in Düdenbüttel, Lower Saxony. Her lessons treat seat and posture as the route to freer, healthier movement in the horse and to fewer riding-related injuries. Alongside seat training and general instruction she works with cavalletti and pole exercises, lungeing and groundwork, and runs preparation courses for German riding badges. Workshops and seminars are also given at yards belonging to clients, and lessons can be booked as individual packages.

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Reit- und Fahrverein Düdenbüttel und Umgebung e.V.

Düdenbüttel, Germany

Reit- und Fahrverein Düdenbüttel und Umgebung e.V. is a riding and driving club founded in 1984 in the Stade district of Lower Saxony. It runs riding lessons for members at every level, from first sessions on the lunge to independent riding, using both club horses and privately owned horses. Alongside instruction the club offers vaulting from age three and a pony club for children from age four, so younger members can learn horsemanship before they start riding. Its facilities include an indoor arena and stabling at the club grounds on An der Loge.

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Braaklander Hof

Dötlingen, Germany

Braaklander Hof is a family-run breeding and riding yard in Neerstedt near Dötlingen with more than twenty years of experience breeding German Riding Ponies and Alt-Oldenburger horses under the Braaklander prefix. Their horses are bred for good temperament combined with performance and are used in dressage, jumping, cross-country and driving. Alongside breeding, the yard offers riding instruction from lunge and seat lessons through to classical dressage and jumping training, a pony school for children, and young-horse education. Horses are also boarded on the farm, and homebred stock is offered for sale.

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Farrier

Barhufpflege Felix Held

Dötlingen, Germany

Barhufpflege Felix Held is a barefoot hoof-care practice in Dötlingen, Lower Saxony. Felix Held works without iron shoes and trims to what each hoof needs rather than to a fixed scheme - as much as necessary, as little as possible. He allows generous time per horse so the hoof can be properly assessed, and documents each visit with before-and-after photographs. Horses of every size are welcome, down to Shetland ponies. He is not accepting new clients at present.

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Veterinary clinic

Tierarztpraxis Dötlingen für Pferde und Kleintiere

Dötlingen, Germany

Tierarztpraxis Dötlingen is a combined equine and small-animal practice in the Oldenburg district of Lower Saxony. Horses are treated exclusively at their home stables within roughly 30 km of Dötlingen, using fully mobile diagnostic equipment so breeding, sport and leisure horses can be assessed on the yard. Dogs, cats and small pets are seen at the practice, which runs modern in-house diagnostics and online appointment booking. An emergency service covers both sides of the practice.

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Veterinary clinic

Tierärztliche Praxis für Pferde Justus Schelhowe

Dötlingen, Germany

Tierärztliche Praxis für Pferde Justus Schelhowe is an equine practice in Dötlingen on the Wildeshauser Geest, serving the Oldenburg, Vechta and Cloppenburg districts. It combines a mobile ambulatory service with a stationary facility on Hof Aschenbeck. The clinical work covers pre-purchase examinations, lameness diagnostics, sports medicine, endoscopy and gastroscopy, dentistry, chiropractic, and laser and shockwave therapy. Justus Schelhowe is a member of the German Society for Equine Medicine (GPM) and keeps the practice's methods and equipment current through continuing education.

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Braaklander Reitclub e.V. Neerstedt

Dötlingen, Germany

Braaklander Reitclub e.V. is a family-oriented riding club based at Braaklander Hof in Neerstedt, serving riders from across the Oldenburg region. The club teaches children, teenagers and adults at every level, from first lunge lessons through to dressage, jumping and cross-country work, always with horse-friendly training methods. A pony school with equestrian pedagogy introduces very young children to horses, and programmes are also run for kindergartens and school sport. Members can take part in regular seminars and courses held as day, evening and weekend formats.

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Ausbildungsstall Wiesner

Dötlingen, Germany

Ausbildungsstall Wiesner is a dressage training yard at Wildeshausen in Lower Saxony run by Oliver Wiesner. Training plans are built around the individual horse, with the emphasis on trust and clear communication rather than drilling. The yard offers full livery coordinated with vet, osteopath and farrier, private lessons, competition preparation, lungeing in dialogue, groundwork, free jumping, pole work, track work and loading training. School horses are available for riders without their own horse, and clinics run regularly.

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Pferde auf Uhlenborg

Dörverden, Germany

Pferde auf Uhlenborg is a livery yard and riding school at Dörverden in Lower Saxony, run by Andrea Kleinmeier. Horses are kept on a large paddock trail, an allergy-friendly trail or in open stabling, with quality forage available around the clock. Teaching follows the academic art of riding, both in hand and under saddle, in private lessons on the owner's horse or a school horse and in group courses, clinics and training weekends. The yard also has an indoor school and training grounds, a salt chamber and a solarium.

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Hengststation Maas J. Hell GmbH

Klein Offenseth-Sparrieshoop, Schleswig-Holstein

Hengststation Maas J. Hell GmbH is a professional stallion station and sport-horse breeding centre in Klein Offenseth-Sparrieshoop, in the heart of the Holstein breeding region of Schleswig-Holstein. It stands a roster of approved breeding stallions and provides stud services to breeders, supported by modern facilities including indoor and outdoor arenas where the stallions are presented and trained. Alongside its breeding programme the station hosts regular events and runs its own tournament club (Turnierclub). It is a long-established, specialist operation serving horse breeders across northern Germany and beyond.

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Equestrian centre

Reithalle Dörpen

Dörpen, Germany

Reithalle Dörpen is the riding hall and grounds of the Reit- und Fahrverein Dörpen und Umgebung e.V., an equestrian club in Dörpen, Lower Saxony. The club maintains an indoor riding hall and outdoor facilities for its members, hosting regular training sessions and carriage-driving events. It has a long-standing local history and organizes tournaments, including driving competitions, throughout the year. Members range from young riders to experienced competitors in both riding and driving disciplines.

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Boarding facility

Jungpferdeaufzucht und -pension Ostermann

Dunum, Germany

Jungpferdeaufzucht und -pension Ostermann is a young-horse rearing and boarding operation in Dunum, Lower Saxony, run by Gitte and Hanke Ostermann. The farm specializes in raising young horses, offers boarding for horses of all ages, and provides training for both horse and rider. Facilities include turnout paddocks and dressage-oriented training for owners looking to further their horse's education. The Ostermann family combines decades of horsemanship experience with personalized care for every horse in their charge.

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Veterinary clinic

Equi-CaRe

Duingen, Germany

Equi-CaRe is a mobile equine veterinary practice based near Duingen in Lower Saxony, Germany, run by Dr. Carmalt and Dr. Reisbig. The team travels directly to the stable to treat horses on site, covering routine care as well as urgent cases. They offer a 24/7 emergency service for horse owners in the region. Equi-CaRe focuses exclusively on equine medicine, combining mobile convenience with specialist veterinary expertise.

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Tack & equestrian shop

Spicka Pferd und Handel

Duderstadt, Germany

Spicka Pferd und Handel is a stable-and-pasture equipment supplier based in Duderstadt, Germany, run by horse-keeping practitioner Jan-Hendrik Spicka. The business offers a mobile horse weighing service, bringing a precision scale directly to the stable for stress-free, on-site weight checks used for growth monitoring, feeding plans, and training. It also sells practical equestrian equipment including paddock plates for mud-free turnout areas, round-arch stable and agricultural halls, pasture fencing accessories, and equine skincare products such as the Leovet SOS mite-care line. Grown out of hands-on daily stable work, the company emphasizes durable, no-nonsense products and personal, regional customer service.

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Equine therapy

Pferdeosteopathin Charlotte Hagen

Duderstadt, Germany

Charlotte Hagen is a DIPO-qualified equine osteopath and osteotherapist based at Duderstadt-Nesselröden in southern Lower Saxony. She is also a trained Bereiterin (FN), physiotherapist and remedial gymnast, so she reads a horse's way of going from both a riding and a clinical standpoint. Her work centres on the Stammer Kinetics Professional principle, having trained under Stefan Stammer. Appointments are made directly by phone or e-mail.

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Equine therapy

Martina Borchardt

Duderstadt, Germany

Chiropraktik für Pferde und Kleintiere is the practice of Dr. med. vet. Martina Borchardt, based in Lehmkuhle 9, Gleichen, near Göttingen. Dr. Borchardt provides manual chiropractic therapy for horses as well as dogs and cats, treating blockages and musculoskeletal issues to restore mobility, performance, and well-being. She is certified by the International Academy of Veterinary Chiropractic and is a member of the International Veterinary Chiropractic Association (IVCA), the Lower Saxony Veterinary Chamber, and the Gesellschaft für Ganzheitliche Tiermedizin e.V. (GGTM). Appointments are arranged individually by phone or email.

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Equestrian centre

Hof Franke

Duderstadt, Germany

Hof Franke is a family-run equestrian centre in Duderstadt, Lower Saxony, founded in 2025 around the philosophy that horse and rider grow together. The yard offers well-kept boarding with daily turnout, a modern round pen for groundwork and training, and children's riding lessons that build foundational riding skills and horse care knowledge. It also runs multi-day summer camps combining groundwork, riding, and stable management, plus birthday parties with pony rides, and gives riders the chance to compete at tournaments on the yard own horses. Set amid varied forests, meadows, and farm tracks, Hof Franke offers direct access to excellent hacking country.

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Riding club

Ländlicher Reiterverein Duderstadt e. V.

Duderstadt, Germany

Ländlicher Reiterverein Duderstadt e.V. is a rural riding club based in Duderstadt, Lower Saxony, whose guiding motto translates as: happiness on earth is found on horseback. The club maintains facilities at Sachsenring 21 in Duderstadt for its members and the local riding community. It fosters a traditional, countryside approach to horsemanship in the Eichsfeld region. Prospective members and visitors are encouraged to reach out directly by email for current activities and membership information.

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Training barn

Hendrik Gäbel Ausbildungsstall

Duderstadt, Germany

Ausbildungsstall Hendrik Gäbel is a horse training barn run by Hendrik Gäbel, a certified Pferdewirtschaftsmeister, together with Charlotte Hagen, based in Nesselröden near Duderstadt. Since 2000 the stable has specialised in the careful, methodical training of talented young horses and their preparation for tournament sport, mare performance tests, and auctions. The facility offers well-ventilated stabling and surrounding pastures for regular turnout, alongside physiotherapy and osteopathy support for horses through Charlotte Hagen. Gäbel also works internationally, coaching students abroad and serving as a test director for the Canadian warmblood breeding association.

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Riding club

Reitcenter Fredershausen

Duderstadt, Germany

Duderstädter Reitclub 78 e.V. is a non-profit riding club founded in 1978 and based in Duderstadt, Lower Saxony. With around 200 members ranging from competitive tournament riders to leisure horse enthusiasts, the club puts a strong focus on youth development and responsible horsemanship. Its grounds include an indoor arena (20x60m), a sand jumping field (45x78m), a sand dressage arena (40x60m), and a grass field, supporting instruction and training in dressage, show jumping, and general riding. The club fields around 40 tournament riders competing across show jumping, dressage, hunting, and leisure-riding disciplines.

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