Multi-discipline yards, arena hire and hacking — a base for everything you ride.
Hunter Valley Horses is based at Pokolbin in the Hunter Valley. It offers trail rides for all levels through bushland and vineyards. It also runs horse-drawn carriage wine tours with heavy horses, and farm tours where visitors can feed farm animals.
Lorien's Circle is a herd of horses and ponies in Galston, north-west Sydney. It offers in-person pony walking adventures and interactive online classes about pony care. The herd is cared for and trained by Karri, a clicker and liberty trainer. The focus is on interacting with horses beyond riding.
Strathearn Eventing is a family-run livery and training yard in Perthshire. It offers long and short-term livery, schooling, rehabilitation and coaching. Its cross country course is open to the public for training, with competitions, clinics and residential camps through the year.
Breeder's Invitational is a non-profit that runs a major cutting horse event with a large purse. Stallion owners join by paying fees per mare bred, and more than 300 cutting horse stallions take part. Breeding stallion and mare owners share a payout based on finalists' winnings in the Derby.
North Harbor Equestrian Center in Gig Harbor is an adult equestrian facility managed by Sabrina Duncan. It offers an adult lesson program and a relational horse training program. Boarding is available only to horses enrolled in training.
Top Line Performance Horses, LLC is an equestrian center in Mankato, Minnesota. It has a heated indoor arena, an outdoor arena, a jump course and an 8-stall barn. It focuses on balance for horse and rider through a multidisciplinary approach.
Yarraman Lodge on the NSW Central Coast offers equine-assisted psychotherapy and equine-assisted learning. It runs term and school holiday group programs for children aged 6-16 and individual sessions for children and adults. The property also hosts eventing clinics and hires out its arenas and cross country course.
Beyond the Paddock is a family-run 11-acre property on the NSW Central Coast. It offers personalised full care horse agistment and hires out its undercover arena for private riding, coaching and horse clinics. The grounds are also available to dog trainers and canine programs. The owners are horse owners who have ridden and competed themselves.
Triple Crown Equestrian Center is a training facility in Lincoln, California. It specialises in cutting horse training and western disciplines including barrel racing and roping. Arena rentals for events are available. It also offers cold salt water spa and other therapy for horses.
USC Horses At Work near Windsor, Nova Scotia, is run by Jill Barker. It offers lessons, clinics, rider training and mentoring, and has a few horses for riders without their own. The venue hosts hunter jumper and dressage competitions and is available for rental.
Heartland Horse Farm is a 142 acre property in the Southern Highlands of NSW founded by Daniel and Debbie Dickson. It offers full-care agistment, spelling, horse leasing, riding lessons and training. It has over 30 paddocks and trails on the property.
Sutton Farm Equestrian Centre in Sutton Forest, NSW, has stables, indoor and outdoor arenas and a round yard. It offers riding lessons including jump coaching, kids day camps, clinics, agistment and arena hire. The farm also hosts weddings and events.
Shibumi Equestrian Centre is on 95 acres near Bundanoon, NSW. It offers agistment and spelling, arena hire and riding lessons with an Equestrian Australia accredited coach. It also runs fun days and clinics.
Evans Park Equestrian is a 40 acre equestrian property at Freemans Reach in the Hawkesbury Valley. It offers agistment and hosts clinics and photoshoots. Facilities include an indoor arena and a cross country course.
Queach Farm Stables near Bury St. Edmunds opened in 2004 and offers DIY livery in 12 stables with off-road riding. It has a floodlit 30x40m all weather manege and 16 acres of grazing. The yard runs monthly affiliated and unaffiliated dressage competitions and clinics.
Brightwood Equestrian is a livery yard and event centre. It runs dressage competitions with results, championship qualifiers and league tables, clear rounds and clinics.
Berkshire Horses is an equestrian centre at Herons Farm with horses and ponies for riding lessons and private tuition. Riders can use the arena or hack through fields, woodland and private gallops. It also offers pony days, children's birthday parties on horseback, riding holidays and bed and breakfast.
Gairloch Trekking Centre near Red Point, Gairloch offers pony trekking on the Red Point beaches on native horses and ponies. It also offers lessons, lead-rein walk-outs and kids riding breaks and stable days. It is open from Easter to October.
Highland Trekking and Trail Riding offers pony trekking from Cougie near Glen Affric in the Highlands. Rides range from short lead rides for under-12s to full-day treks and long-distance trekking by arrangement. It is approved, insured and open all year.
Curborough Equestrian near Lichfield is a livery yard with indoor and outdoor arenas, 400 acres for hacking and a horse walker. It offers DIY, part and full livery and runs unaffiliated dressage events. Other livery and riding businesses are based on site.
Wellow Park Stables near Newark, Nottinghamshire is a livery yard that was formerly a riding school. It offers livery, arena hire, farm ride hire, clinics and events. On-site BHS coach Libby gives lessons and schooling to owners.
Hollingwells Equestrian is a small family-run equestrian centre in the Scottish Highlands. It offers riding lessons from age 2, trekking, Pony Club, pony parties and wellbeing sessions. Most lessons are taught by a BHS intermediate instructor.
Alsager Equestrian Centre in Church Lawton, Stoke-on-Trent, is a family-run centre established over 30 years ago. It offers livery with 40 stables, two indoor arenas and two outdoor menages, and arena and jump hire. It holds competitions and offers lessons on your own horse.
Lodge Farm Equestrian Centre in Wetley Rocks has a riding school with tuition from beginners to advanced competition riders. It runs show jumping, showing and dressage events, a Pony Club and pony parties. It also has a saddlery shop and an arena café.
