Breeding operations and stallion stations — find a farm to stand your mare or shop the next generation.
Le Haras des Ecus in the Sarthe near Le Mans trains and breeds horses and also hosts seminars. It describes high professional quality as its guiding value for both people and horses and has a page for its yearlings.
Swordlestown Little is a private thoroughbred stud farm near Naas in County Kildare, developed from 1998. It offers mare boarding, foaling, breaking and pre-training, and rehabilitation, with an on-site veterinary service, and welcomes mares with difficult breeding histories.
Bearstone Stud near Market Drayton, Shropshire, has bred winners of over 1430 races since 1994, including several Group 1 winners. It stands the sprint stallions Aesterius, Dream Ahead and Washington DC and invites breeders to visit and discuss mating plans.
Golden Farm is a thoroughbred stud farm in the Golden Vale, County Tipperary, run by Kevin Blake. It offers a bespoke bloodstock agency service to a small number of clients, buying for trainers such as Joseph O'Brien. The site also lists mare management and investment services.
Stajnia Oxer in Grzymała is a small breeding, sport and recreation stable that also breeds pedigree dogs. It has about 13 horses and sells horses.
Newtown Stud is a 115 acre thoroughbred stud just outside Naas in County Kildare, bought by Brian and Sheila Grassick in 1996. It offers boarding, foaling, consigning and pre-training with camera-monitored foaling boxes, near Goffs and the Curragh.
Derryglen Stud in Dunboyne, County Meath, is a show jumping breeding centre that stands the stallions Kafka vd Heffinck, Cocktail de Talma and Derryglen Finnegan. Semen can be ordered through the site, and it has world class facilities.
New Barn Stud in Launton, Oxfordshire, offers foaling down in monitored foaling boxes, stallion collection, semen analysis and artificial insemination, and mare boarding for cover by in-house or external stallions. The site has stallions and for sale pages. Horses for sale.
Peel Bloodstock operates from Peel Hall in Ashton, Cheshire, breeding, sourcing and producing racehorses. It offers foaling and boarding, sales preparation and consigning, breaking and pre-training, pinhooking and mating advice, and has a horses for sale page. Horses for sale.
Elevage du Buhot is a pony and horse breeder at Formigny in Normandy, breeding for competition, breeding and leisure. Its blog lists sport and leisure ponies offered for sale. Horses for sale.
Ecurie des Diligences is an Iberian horse breeder in France. Its site welcomes visitors in French and English under the motto that the horse is the mirror of our soul.
Stadnina Izery is a conservation breeding stud of Konik Polski horses in Stankowice and Mlądz in the Izera foothills. The site lists stallions, mares, youngstock and foals. It sells horses, offers riding lessons and hippotherapy, and runs an agritourism farm.
Serednie Małe is a Hucul horse stud and agritourism farm in the Bieszczady mountains, where the horses live in a stable-free herd system. It offers guided rides, student riding camps and workshops. The site lists horse sales among its services.
Haras des Forets in Couvains, Normandy has bred sport horses since 1970, founded by Guy Paris and now run by Fabrice Paris. It offers gynaecological follow-up, insemination, foaling livery and young horse preparation for breeding shows and auctions. The site has a stallions section and the family trades in horses.
Gestut Pramwaldhof in Haag am Hausruck, Upper Austria breeds and trains dressage horses. Stallions at stud for 2026 are Best Secret, Bonds in Gold, Karim Dore, Knock-Out and Tarantino. The site lists horses for sale, including sport horses and dressage prospects.
Stud UK Euro in Kent is a warmblood breeding stud and sport horse dealer. It lists foals, yearlings and older competition horses for sale, along with broodmares and stallions. Equine services include artificial insemination of mares.
Blue Diamond Stud is a thoroughbred breeding and racing operation with farms at Newmarket and Tuddenham. It breeds Classic winners and runs mares, foals and yearlings programmes. A Horses For Sale section and a bloodstock and sales team handle sales.
Cheveley Park Stud in Newmarket is the town's oldest stud farm, bought and rebuilt by David and Patricia Thompson from 1975. It stands the champion two-year-old Vandeek and keeps over 80 broodmares. Mares visiting its stallions follow the Newmarket Stud Farmers' Association breeding regulations.
Whitsbury Manor Stud in Hampshire is a commercial thoroughbred stud that stands stallions for outside breeders, including Dragon Symbol and Havana Grey. Covering slots and nominations are booked through the stud office. The stud also has a head of bloodstock and sales.
Bardic Stud in Devon stands the warmblood tobiano stallion Wizard, graded with CHAPS, and also offers livery. It breeds and produces showing and competition horses run by Charlotte and Jane Culley.
Southey Farm near Wellington in Somerset is a part and full livery yard with a Lusitano stallion at stud and a progeny page. Facilities include internal or external stables and an arena, and the owner lives on site.
Villis Stud near Liskeard in Cornwall stands the stallions Villis Boudeeh, Villis Grafix, Villis Hazard and Villis Havoc, with modern and traditional European bloodlines and a stud fees page. It raises young sport horses and has a for sale page. Horses for sale.
Tawna Miniature Shetland Pony Stud near Bodmin, Cornwall, breeds championship-winning miniature Shetland ponies from selected stallions and mares. The site has foals, a diary and a for sale page, with visitors welcome by appointment. Horses for sale.
