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Pferdezucht P&S

Farven, Germany

Pferdezucht P&S is a small private sport-horse breeding operation run by Svenja and Peter Stojanow at Farven in Lower Saxony. It breeds from a handful of broodmares out of three long-established damlines: the Thoroughbred family 8, the line of Pik Dame and the line of Jucunde. The pedigrees behind those mares run back through successful showjumping and dressage horses, and each family is documented in detail on the site. Foals and youngstock from the current crop are presented year by year.

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Müllers Hoff Islandpferde

Farven, Germany

Müllers Hoff is an Icelandic horse stud at Farven in northern Germany, run for around thirty years by IPZV trainer Nana Degenhardt. About a hundred Icelandic horses live on the farm; the yard breeds from its own stallions, raises youngstock and sells horses of every age. Riding holidays, courses and camps are offered for adults, children, families and youth groups, together with regular riding lessons. Further services include livery, professional schooling (Beritt), a display group, a tack shop and the farm as an event location.

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Gestüt Mühlenbach

Estorf, Germany

Islandpferdegestüt Mühlenbach is an Icelandic horse stud at Estorf-Gräpel in the Stade district of Lower Saxony, run by Peter and Martina Miessner. The stud keeps its own broodmares and stallions and breeds Icelandic horses on the farm. Homebred horses are offered for sale directly from the yard. A neighbouring operation on the same street, run by Bernd Arnhold and Kerstin Baden, provides additional horse services. Breeding stock, stallions and youngstock are documented in a photo gallery on the stud's website.

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Sieberthof

Eschershausen, Germany

Sieberthof is a sport-horse stud at Eschershausen in the Ith hills of Lower Saxony, between Hameln and Göttingen. It breeds on a deliberately selective basis with the stated aim of producing horses for the top of the sport, and offers breeding stock and young horses for sale. The mare base and current foal crops are presented on the stud's website. The farm also keeps a collection of art and historical objects relating to horse breeding, and an administrative office is maintained in Berlin.

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Pferdezucht Vossmann

Engelschoff, Germany

Pferdezucht Vossmann is a small sport-horse breeding operation run by Julia and Sebastian Vossmann at Engelschoff-Neuland in Lower Saxony. It breeds from a handful of registered broodmares drawn from established damlines, and the site sets out each mare family in full. Foals and young horses bred on the yard are documented year by year from 2012 onwards. Youngstock and riding horses are offered for sale directly from the breeder.

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Bo Max Paint Horses

Emstek, Germany

Bo Max Paint Horses is a family-run American Paint Horse breeding operation in Emstek, Lower Saxony, run by Sebastian Kostka. The stud stands the APHA stallions Bo Max and BM Lucky Joe and keeps a small band of broodmares from foundation reining and cow-horse bloodlines. Foals are raised on the farm with plenty of turnout and handled through to basic training before being offered for sale. Stud service is available to outside mares under published breeding conditions, and young horses and leisure partners are sold directly from the yard.

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Zucht- und Ausbildungsstall Rump

Emstek, Germany

Zucht- und Ausbildungsstall Rump is a breeding and training yard at Drantum in the municipality of Emstek, in the Oldenburger Münsterland, run by Markus and Sarah Rump. The farm breeds its own foals and takes young horses through their education under saddle. Schooled and competition-proven horses are offered for sale directly from the yard. The successes of horses bred and trained there are documented on the site.

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Hof-Sieverding

Antoniusstraße 15, 49685 Emstek, Germany

Hof-Sieverding is a family-run stud farm located in Emstek, Germany. They place a strong emphasis on horse breeding and horse care. The farm is dedicated to the breeding of quality horses and maintaining their well-being.

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Hengststation René Tebbel

Emsbüren, Germany

Hengststation René Tebbel is a stallion station, breeding and training operation in Emsbüren in the Emsland, founded by the international show jumper René Tebbel. The station stands a collection of licensed show-jumping stallions and publishes its breeding terms, with fresh and frozen semen ordered and shipped directly from the station. Breeders and buyers also find sale horses and a dedicated foal marketplace. Alongside the breeding business the yard produces and trains sport horses. The station hosts its own RT Fohlenchampionat foal championship.

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Shettys vom Zaubergarten

Emmerthal, Germany

Shettys vom Zaubergarten is a small hobby Shetland pony stud in the Hameln area of Lower Saxony, run by Anja and Anna-Virginia Kühne for around twenty years. It breeds both German Partbred Shetland ponies and original Shetland ponies, and presents its mares, stallions and youngstock with pedigrees on its website. Ponies are offered for sale from time to time. The stud also runs "Mini trifft Mini", a supervised contact programme in which children from the age of three meet the miniature ponies.

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Gestüt Hämelschenburg - Beate Langels

Emmerthal, Germany

Gestüt Hämelschenburg is a Trakehner stud at Emmerthal in the Weserbergland, about 50 km south of Hannover. It was founded in the early 1960s by Otto and Jutta Langels and has been led by Beate Langels since. Breeding runs on a band of twelve to thirteen selected broodmares drawn from the strongest Trakehner mare families, among them DLG winners, elite mares and championship winners. Stallion rearing has always been a particular focus, and 65 licensed stallions have grown up on the Hämelschenburg pastures. The stud also operates an insemination station, sells breeding and riding horses, and hosts an annual foal show.

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Hof Struß

Elze, Germany

Hof Struß is a farm and equestrian operation at Elze in the Hildesheim district of Lower Saxony, run by farmer Hartmut Struß. The business combines agriculture with horse breeding and a riding facility on the same site. Horses from the yard's own breeding programme are offered for sale. Alongside the equestrian side the farm hosts community events such as its summer festival, and horses or the facility can be viewed by arrangement.

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Islandpferdegestüt Leinebergland

Einbeck, Germany

Islandpferdegestüt Leinebergland is an Icelandic-horse stud and riding yard at Haieshausen near Einbeck in southern Lower Saxony, run by Lea Gerbershagen. It offers riding lessons from beginner to advanced level, gaited-horse training, guided trail rides and boarding in several formats. The yard breeds Icelandic horses and puts a strong emphasis on animal welfare, sustainable land management and biodiversity on its pastures. Clinics, seminars and farm experience days for families, schools and groups run through the year.

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Gestüt Chrymont

Einbeck, Germany

Gestüt Chrymont is an Arabian horse stud at Am Hils 4 in Einbeck, Lower Saxony, run by Erika Rudolph. The stud keeps its own broodmares and breeding stallions and raises foals from its programme each year. Stallions and mares are presented on the website together with their pedigrees. Horses from the breeding programme are offered for sale, and visits can be arranged by appointment.

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Birkenhof Einbeck GbR

Einbeck, Germany

Birkenhof Einbeck is a centre for horses and their people in Einbeck, southern Lower Saxony, combining animal therapy with a livery yard. Horses and dogs are treated with physiotherapy, osteopathy, Dorn-Breuss and craniosacral techniques, phytotherapy and bloodletting. The yard offers both boxes and open stabling, and runs courses and training days on the premises. The farm also breeds Shire horses, the largest horse breed in the world, and builds events around them.

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Islandpferdegestüt Isberg

Egestorf, Germany

Islandpferdegestüt Isberg is an Icelandic-horse stud at Egestorf in the Lüneburg Heath, not far from Hamburg, founded in 2017 by Yvonne de Rijcke and Mike Hecker. The farm has 42 hectares of pasture available to the horses all year round and runs a small, family-feeling livery community alongside the breeding operation. It stands the five-gaited stallion Pan vom Vindstadir, who was presented in the breeding assessment at the 2019 World Championships in Berlin. German- and Icelandic-bred sale horses — geldings, mares including in-foal mares, and stallions, unbacked or backed — are offered directly from the farm, with an emphasis on matching horse and rider in person.

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Stal Molenhorn

Eemsdelta, Netherlands

Stal Molenhorn is a Dutch pony stud in the Groningen village of 't Zandt that has been breeding large Welsh sport ponies since 1970. The breeding programme aims at ponies with elastic, ground-covering movement, a good riding type and the temperament to carry children. Thoroughbred and registered Welsh bloodlines are used while keeping the authentic Welsh character intact. Offspring are offered for sale and the stud advises interested buyers on its breeding stock.

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Hippisch Centrum Proostmeer

Eemsdelta, Netherlands

Hippisch Centrum Proostmeer is an equestrian centre at Wagenborgen in Groningen, started in 2020 by Henk Boonstra alongside the family dairy farm and now a full horse business in its own right. The centre offers livery for privately owned horses and rearing for youngstock, with published tariffs and accommodation aimed at owners who want their horse well cared for. It breeds its own dressage horses from quality mares and brings the young horses on itself. Riding lessons and horse-related courses are run in partnership with instructor Marian Staal, who uses the centre as her base. Horses bred and produced at the centre are offered for sale, and visitors are welcome to come and look round.

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Stal Vrieling

Eemsdelta, Netherlands

Stal Jur Vrieling is a show-jumping yard in Holwierde, Groningen, trading internationally as Jur Vrieling Sporthorses. The stable breeds, produces and campaigns jumping horses, competing at national and international level up to 1.40m and 1.50m classes. Young and made horses from the yard are offered for sale to sport riders. Training and competition results are documented in an ongoing photo and video record on the site.

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Stal Bakker

Eemsdelta, Netherlands

Stal Bakker is an equestrian business in Zijldijk in the Groningen province of the Netherlands. Having wound down its riding-school activities, the yard now operates as a livery stable, offering stabling and daily care for owners' horses. It also trades horses and runs a small breeding programme alongside the livery side. The team publishes references from clients and photographs of the yard on its website.

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Gestüt Bretz

Edewecht, Germany

Gestüt und Tinkerhof Bretz is a pony stud at Edewecht in Lower Saxony, run by Kirsten and Tobias Bretz. The farm breeds and sells Dartmoor ponies, Tinkers and Shetland ponies from a herd of around eighteen animals, and stands its own stallions at stud. Alongside the breeding operation it runs an agricultural contracting arm offering wooden fencing, mulching and hay and straw haulage. Hay and haylage are sold direct from the farm. Fresh eggs are delivered weekly in the local area.

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Gestüt Stiekema

Edewecht, Germany

Gestüt Stiekema is a breeding and rearing yard in Edewecht-Jeddeloh, East Frisia, run by Marcus Stiekema. The business specialises in raising young horses on around 70 hectares of pasture, managing broodmares through the covering season and standing stallions at its own stallion station. Owners can send mares for breeding management and foaling, and place youngstock in age-matched groups for balanced development. Advice on matings using internationally proven bloodlines is part of the service.

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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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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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