Multi-discipline yards, arena hire and hacking — a base for everything you ride.
City of Derry Farm & Equestrian Centre is a fourth-generation family farm in the Faughan Valley outside Derry-Londonderry. It offers riding lessons for children and adults, trail rides and Pony Club activities. It also runs equine assisted wellbeing programmes led by a trained practitioner. Riding holidays with farmhouse accommodation are available.
Maryville Stables in Carrigaline, Co. Cork, is a competition and training venue hosting Showjumping Ireland competitions, leagues and training shows. It offers DIY and full livery with 55 stables, an indoor arena and four outdoor arenas.
Sugarloaf Equestrian Centre at Cobbity, NSW breeds and trains Stock Horses and Quarter Horses for cattle working performance. The centre has an undercover arena, outdoor sand arenas and stabling. It hosts events and offers agistment and horses for sale.
Harelaw Equestrian Centre is on the Gosford estate near Longniddry, East Lothian. It offers hacks on estate tracks and woodland, beach rides for experienced riders and lessons in an indoor school. It also hires out horses for local common ridings and hunt rides.
Cumbrian Heavy Horses is a BHS approved heavy horse riding centre in the south-west Lake District. Riders of many abilities ride Suffolk Punch, Clydesdale and Shire horses through the National Park. The site also offers camping and pods.
Barton Equestrian Centre in Bilsborrow north of Preston has been run by the Martin family since 2001. It hosts equestrian events and Derby shows. Facilities include five outdoor arenas, two indoor arenas and a cafeteria with a viewing gallery.
Achnalarig Stables is a TRSS approved riding centre in Oban. It offers group, semi-private and private lessons and treks through the countryside for all ages and abilities. It is also a Riding for the Disabled centre and hires out its outdoor arena.
Glenshiel Highland Pony Trekking Centre is a small family-run business at Shiel Bridge in the Highlands. It offers pony treks and trail rides on Highland ponies from May to September, in groups of up to six. It also offers bed and breakfast and self-catering accommodation.
Aintree International Equestrian Centre is an equestrian venue at Aintree Racecourse in Liverpool, completed in 2007. It hosts show jumping, dressage, pony club and showing competitions, clinics and horse sales. Its arenas are also available for private hire.
Greenfields of Avondale near Strathaven offers a full range of livery services run by a family team. It has an American barn, a horse walker and an indoor arena. It runs training clinics, camps and events and hires out its cross country and jumping facilities.
CCR Equestrian in Gloucester is open seven days a week and offers hire of a 100m x 50m arena. It runs affiliated and unaffiliated competitions, arena eventing and clear rounds. It has a water treadmill and solarium, offers rehab livery and breeds horses.
The David Broome Event Centre at Mount Ballan Manor near Chepstow is a showground. It runs Cricklands unaffiliated shows and Wales & West British Showjumping and FEI affiliated shows. It offers stabling and showground hire.
Ashwood Equestrian near Junction 14 of the M6 in Staffordshire hosts competitions and clinics for riders of all abilities. Its Infinity Arena and cross country course are available to hire. It has a small adult-only livery yard of around 15 horses.
Le Moulin du Goutay in Fromental, Limousin is an equestrian centre and riding club with horses and ponies. It offers riding lessons, rides, holiday camps and boarding for horses and ponies. It also has gîtes and guest rooms.
Ranch Made In The USA is a western riding centre on 136 hectares on the Millevaches plateau in Corrèze. It offers western riding lessons, stays, cattle sorting, clinics, competitions and a mountain trail course. It breeds Quarter Horses alongside Angus cattle and offers field and stable boarding.
Les Amis d'Onno is an equestrian stunt team based at Lanton Hill Farm near Jedburgh. It stages arena shows including a theatrical jousting tournament. Its Cossack show demonstrates trick riding and horseback archery. It also performs a western show and appears at weddings and private parties.
Highlands Unbridled is a trail riding and trekking centre in the Scottish Highlands. It runs long-distance riding holidays, including a coast-to-coast route, over hills and rough terrain. Riders must be competent in light seat riding because of the long days in the saddle.
North Sannox Pony Trekking is a family-run trekking centre on a hill sheep farm on the Isle of Arran, established in 1981. It offers paddock rides for young children and treks of half an hour to two hours. It is approved by the Trekking and Riding Society of Scotland.
Boswell Equestrian Centre is an equestrian facility in Co. Wicklow, Ireland, opened in 2005. It runs a riding school with group lessons and trekking, livery and arena hire for training and competitions. It also has a tack shop and a feed shop and hosts events.
Sangsho Equestrian is an equestrian training venue on Willingham Road. Its facilities can be hired for Pony Club and riding club camps, clinics and competitions, it runs events, and it offers full livery.
Ewerby Arena is an equestrian arena for hire on a family-run farm in Ewerby near Sleaford. The 40 x 20 m floodlit arena has a Combi-Ride surface suited to dressage and jumping. Jumps and dressage letters are provided and there is parking for horseboxes. A pickleball court is also available for hire.
Equine Unlimited on the Dungarthill Estate in Perthshire is a natural equine centre formed in 2020 that promotes bitless, barefoot and positive reinforcement training. It offers livery from DIY grass to full, hacking for experienced riders, horse holidays and overnight trips, clinics and training, backing and rehab of horses.
Scotland's Grade One racecourse and home of the Scottish Grand National and Ayr Gold Cup. It runs flat and jump racing with raceday hospitality.
Ferme équestre CREP Naours is an equestrian farm in the Somme run by the riders' association C.R.E.P (Les Cavaliers Randonneurs En Picardie). It offers rides for all levels and multi-day riding treks by appointment in small groups. Teaching is outdoor-only with an ethology-based approach. Riders may also come with their own horse if its vaccinations are up to date.
