Multi-discipline yards, arena hire and hacking — a base for everything you ride.
Cottonwood Creek Ranch provides horseback riding lessons for all skill levels, from beginners to world championship competitors. They offer horse training and boarding services, as well as summer horse riding camps. The facility features both indoor and outdoor arenas for year-round riding, and their instructors focus on developing responsible horsemanship alongside riding skills.
Horse Feathers Equine Center is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the rescue and rehabilitation of horses. They provide specialized care for neglected and abused horses, focusing on rehabilitation and adoption. The center also offers educational programs and volunteer opportunities for those interested in equine care.
Riding with Hope provides equine-assisted services aimed at empowering individuals with disabilities. They offer therapeutic riding lessons and equine-assisted activities, including grooming and learning about horses. The facility cares for a herd of horses that play a vital role in their programs, ensuring they receive the necessary care and support.
Empower U Equine Learning and Wellness Center offers a variety of equine-related programs including youth riding lessons, horse camps, and equine-assisted learning. The center focuses on personal growth and skill development through interaction with horses. They provide workshops and retreats aimed at empowering individuals and teams, promoting self-awareness and connection through experiential learning with horses.
École d'équitation De Villers offers riding lessons for all levels and equestrian camps for children. The facility emphasizes a family atmosphere and aims to build a strong relationship between riders and their horses. They provide various equestrian activities including care for horses and competition training.
L’écurie Kieffer is a riding school located in Vaudreuil-Dorion, offering private, semi-private, and group lessons for riders of all ages and levels. They provide personalized training programs and competition support, along with facilities for horse boarding. The stables have a newly renovated indoor and outdoor riding ring, private trails, and vast paddocks.
Centre équestre Gilles Godbout offers a variety of equestrian services including horse boarding, private lessons, and training. The facility features indoor and outdoor arenas, as well as amenities for horse care. They provide a comprehensive environment for both riders and horses.
Thoroughbred Athletes, Inc. is dedicated to rescuing, rehabilitating, retraining, and re-homing Thoroughbred horses. They provide a solid training foundation for horses transitioning to new careers after racing. The organization also offers community youth the opportunity to engage with horses, promoting valuable skills and teamwork. Their mission emphasizes the importance of preparing horses for a better future while fostering growth in young volunteers.
Hof Freese is a livery yard in Oyten near Bremen, sharing its site with the riding club RG Klein Hollen e.V. Horses are out on large pastures around the clock through the summer and spend winter days on a big sand paddock with an adjoining grass strip. The facilities include an indoor school, a floodlit 20 x 60 and a 20 x 40 dressage arena, a floodlit lungeing ring, a large summer jumping arena, two sick paddocks, a wash bay and a solarium. Fixed feeding times are kept, with individual rations and supplementary or diet feed where a horse needs it.
Reitanlage Vortanz is an equestrian centre at Bassen in Oyten, near Bremen, with room for 31 boarding horses and ponies. The yard puts its emphasis on species-appropriate horse keeping and on the wellbeing of horse and rider alike. Alongside livery it runs guided trail rides out into the surrounding countryside, and hosts events through the year.
Pferdehof Koch is a livery yard and riding school in the Quelkhorn/Fischerhude district of Ottersberg. The yard offers box stabling with paddocks and pasture turnout for boarders. Riding instruction is given to beginners, young riders aged roughly 12 to 16 and adults, from recreational level through to competition. Facilities include a 20 x 40 m indoor school, outdoor arenas, a jumping arena, a round pen and direct access to hacking country, and the yard hosts its own in-house shows.
Reitanlage Kohlstruck is a livery yard run by Martina Kohlstruck at Osterode am Harz in southern Lower Saxony. Horses are kept in boxes with adjoining paddocks, and a limited number of open-stable places built during the yard's youngstock-rearing years are also let. All the basic forage is grown to organic standard on the family's own land. Riders have a 20x40 m indoor school and a 35x50 m outdoor arena, with summer pasture around the yard and surfaced sand paddocks for turnout in winter and bad weather.
Pferdesportzentrum Lorenz is a full-service equestrian centre in the Teufelsmoor near Osterholz-Scharmbeck, run by the Lorenz family. The yard offers livery and paddock boxes, indoor riding halls and outdoor training arenas for horses in work. It also breeds sport horses and regularly has horses for sale. Holiday accommodation on site, a main house, a guest house and a holiday home, lets visiting riders stay on the yard.
Hardenberg Reitanlage is a full-service equestrian centre on the grounds of Schloss Hardenberg in Nörten-Hardenberg, where horses have been kept and bred for centuries. The livery operation feeds concentrate three times and hay twice a day to an individual plan for every horse, mucks out through the week and offers paddock, pasture and horse-walker options. Jumping lessons are given by an experienced trainer who also competes and builds courses, while dressage instruction runs through the week up to advanced level and is arranged individually. The yard trains young and experienced horses on the principles of classical horsemanship, with full training, part training and holiday cover available. Regular jumping and dressage clinics round out the programme, and the site sits conveniently between Göttingen and Northeim.
Reiterhof Harms is a family-run riding farm on the North Sea island of Norderney, established as a working farm in 1929 and turned to tourism in the 1970s. It keeps spacious stabling and offers guest boxes, so visitors can bring their own horse to the island. Guided rides lead through the dunes and the coastal landscape around the lighthouse. The same family also runs the adjoining Tünnbak campground on the site. Both the equestrian operation and the campground are managed directly by the Harms family.
Reit- und Ferienhof Maack is a riding and holiday farm at Ostbense near Neuharlingersiel, a short distance from the North Sea coast in East Frisia. Riding tuition is given at every level from first lessons to advanced work, using three large outdoor arenas and an indoor school. Guided hacks and led rides take groups out into the surrounding marshland, and there is daily pony handling and a short pony ride for younger children. Twelve holiday apartments named after the East Frisian islands accommodate guests, and the family farms alongside to grow its own forage.
Reitanlage Bösch is a large livery and riding facility at Neu Wulmstorf, just south of Hamburg, run by Mareike Hoops. The yard offers 63 paddock boxes, two indoor schools, a horse solarium, a horse walker and around ten hectares of pasture. The scale and equipment suit leisure riders and horses in regular work alike. The surrounding countryside gives direct access to hacking.
Fjordpferde-Centrum is a riding school in Neu Wulmstorf near Hamburg, run by Peter Meyer. It teaches riders from the age of six in small groups matched by ability and age, following classical principles across dressage, jumping and cross-country riding. Theory lessons on horses and horsemanship accompany the practical work in the saddle. The site has two indoor arenas, an outdoor arena and direct access to open riding country. The centre also keeps and helps preserve endangered horse and livestock breeds.
RedwoodTrails is an extreme and mountain trail park at Müden an der Aller in Lower Saxony, built for riders who want to school their horses over natural and man-made obstacles. Visitors can book free training sessions on the course or join structured clinics covering trail work, fire training, ground driving and liberty work. Guest boxes are available so horses can stay over for multi-day courses. The park is run by Verena and Joachim Lock and is open to riders of every discipline.
Ricardo Tabaczek Sportpferde is an equestrian services business run by Pia and Ricardo Tabaczek at their yard in Tergast, Moormerland, East Frisia. The team takes horses in for professional schooling (Beritt) and produces sport horses on its own facility of arenas and stabling. Horses are presented for sale with photos and video, and a "Find My Horse" service sources suitable animals for buyers. References from client riders are published on the site.
Ulmenhof is a family-run riding farm on the edge of Meppen in the Emsland, which has offered a range of activities for leisure riders for more than 20 years. The yard is run by the Albers family, who put the wellbeing of horse and rider at the centre of the operation. It sits conveniently for the town while remaining in open countryside. The farm is currently reworking its concept, and both the yard and its website are being rebuilt.
Reit- & Pensionsstall Bölle is a livery and riding yard in Meppen, Emsland, with stabling for up to 35 horses. The site has a 60 x 20 m indoor school with an irrigation system, secured individual paddocks, a lunge ring, summer pastures and winter turnout. Riders have direct access to hacking routes through the surrounding fields, meadows and woodland. The yard is run to current German equestrian husbandry standards with an emphasis on individual horse care.
Hof Hagemann-Krystosek at Neuenkirchen near Melle is a livery yard with room for around 75 horses and ponies, run straw-free since 2017 with hay fed ad lib. Boarding options include paddock boxes, a HIT active stable, open stabling in small herds and large indoor boxes with self-care. Riders have a 20 × 40 m indoor school with mirrors, a 16 m lungeing hall, a 2,500 m² groundwork area, a floodlit dressage arena and a 35 × 70 m floodlit jumping arena, plus cross-country trails into the forest. For the horses there is a brine-oxygen inhalation chamber, a warm-water solarium and wash bay, a horse scale and trail-training obstacles, and seminars and courses run through the year.
Sutmühlenhof is a livery and riding yard on the Sutmühlenstraße near Melle in Lower Saxony. It offers horse boarding in a range of box types, with an indoor school, outdoor arenas and direct access to hacking country. Riding instruction is available through instructors based at the yard, and group hacks are organised for liveries. A Reiterstübchen common room gives riders and their families a place to gather, and the farm also breeds and sells horses.
