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Stud farms

Breeding operations and stallion stations — find a farm to stand your mare or shop the next generation.

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Stall Schwierking

Barver, Germany

Stall Schwierking is a stud farm and breeding operation located in Barver, in the Diepholz district of Lower Saxony. The stable combines horse breeding with training services, raising and preparing young horses for their future riding careers. The team maintains close ties with regional breed associations and showcases its horses and breeding stock via Facebook and Instagram. Visitors and prospective buyers are welcome to arrange viewings of the farms breeding stock and facilities.

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Landgestüt Celle

Bargstedt, Germany

Niedersächsisches Landgestüt Celle is one of Germany's oldest state studs, founded in 1735 and based in Celle, Lower Saxony. The stud keeps and presents around 80 licensed stallions and operates an extensive network of breeding and insemination stations across the region, offering semen ordering, breeding consultation and artificial insemination alongside its annual stallion presentations and popular Summer Festival. Its performance-testing station in nearby Adelheidsdorf — the oldest stallion performance-testing facility still operating in Germany — trains and evaluates young breeding stallions, with the testing programme continually refined together with the University of Göttingen and the German Equestrian Federation (FN). The Adelheidsdorf site provides extensive modern facilities, including three indoor riding halls, three outdoor arenas (one with an ebb-and-flow watering system) and 32 hectares of training grounds with a 1,000-metre cross-country course and a 2,000-metre gallop track. Stallion training there is led by head saddle master Wolfhard Witte and a team of accomplished advanced-level riders. A public institution under Lower Saxony's agriculture ministry, the Landgestüt remains a central pillar of horse breeding in northern Germany.

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Zucht- & Ausbildungsstall Klintworth

Bargstedt, Germany

Zucht- & Ausbildungsstall Klintworth is a family-run equestrian centre near Bargstedt in Lower Saxony specialising in the breeding of Hanoverian and Holstein sport horses. The yard offers training and auction preparation for young horses alongside professional riding instruction in jumping and dressage. With 50 horse boxes available, the facility provides full boarding services including foal rearing, senior horse care, and in-house feed production.

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Islandpferdegestüt Domstädter Hof

Bardowick, Germany

Domstädter Hof is an Icelandic horse stud farm located in Bardowick, near Lüneburg. Founded in 1995, the farm specialises in breeding and keeping Icelandic horses, with two breeding stallions available for stud. The facility offers group and private riding lessons, trail rides, and courses on school horses. Horse boarding services are also available for horse owners.

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Holger und Silke Siems

Balge, Germany

Zuchthof Siems is a family-run stud and breeding farm operated by Holger and Silke Siems in Balge, Lower Saxony. The farm specializes in breeding quality riding horses, combining traditional horsemanship with modern breeding practices. Visitors and prospective buyers can view young stock and broodmares raised on the farm's pastures. The team offers personal guidance to owners and breeders looking for well-bred, well-started horses.

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Zuchthof Kathmann

Bakum, Germany

Zuchthof Kathmann is a sport horse stud farm in Hausstette-Bakum, South Oldenburg, with an international reputation for breeding, selecting, and training quality dressage and jumping horses. The farm presents several breeding stallions each season and regularly offers young trained horses for sale to riders and professionals worldwide. Under the guidance of Josef Kathmann, the stud has built a global following for its consistent production of high-performance sport horses.

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Hengststation Kristina & Steffen Müller

Badbergen, Germany

Hengststation Kristina und Steffen Mueller is a stud and breeding operation near the A1 motorway in Badbergen, in the Artland region of Lower Saxony. Run by Kristina Wehage-Mueller and Steffen Mueller, the stud specialises in German Riding Ponies and Welsh ponies, with a strong focus on preparing and presenting young stock at licensing events, mare and foal shows, and tournaments. Horses and ponies are kept in bright, spacious boxes with daily turnout, and the couple places particular value on personal contact and close consultation with breeders. The stud location in the Artland offers excellent conditions for breeding, training and marketing quality riding ponies.

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Islandpferde-Kayhausermoor

Bad Zwischenahn, Germany

Islandpferde-Kayhausermoor is a stud farm on the edge of the Kayhausermoor near Bad Zwischenahn, close to the university town of Oldenburg in Lower Saxony. The stud breeds Icelandic horses selected for strong gait quality, a solid build and a clear-headed temperament, and has brought in bloodlines from Denmark to strengthen its breeding programme. Alongside breeding, the yard offers boarding and riding lessons, and regularly presents its young stock and sale horses to prospective buyers. The team shares foaling news, sales horses and stud updates with a following of Icelandic-horse enthusiasts.

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Islandpferdehof Oheblick

Bad Salzdetfurth, Germany

Islandpferdehof Oheblick is a multi-generational Icelandic horse stud farm run by the Eiselt/Bäck family near Bad Salzdetfurth, at the edge of the Harz foothills in Lower Saxony. Three generations of the family live and work together on the property, breeding and raising Icelandic horses amid the region's forested hills, meadows, and fields. The farm hosts a regular calendar of equestrian activities and events for visitors and horse enthusiasts. Its scenic location between the Harz mountains and the Heath region makes it a distinctive destination for Icelandic horse lovers.

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Hengsthof Gut Nüxei

Bad Sachsa, Germany

Hengsthof Gut Nüxei in Bad Sachsa at the southern edge of the Harz is a boarding yard built specifically around stallions and young horses kept in groups. Rather than individual boxes, the concept is year-round turnout with large paddocks, open shelters and sand rolling areas, and the yard holds a four-star certification from the Laufstall-Arbeits-Gemeinschaft for species-appropriate husbandry. Stallions, foals and young horses are boarded and developed on site, with veterinary and farrier care coordinated by the yard. The operation belongs to the same company as the Hotti24 equestrian shop, which publishes the yard concept and updates.

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Islandpferde aus dem Deister

Bad Münder am Deister, Germany

Islandpferde aus dem Deister is a specialist Icelandic horse operation near Bad Nenndorf in Lower Saxony, run by Jutta Krämer for over 15 years. The business covers the full cycle of Icelandic horsemanship: selective breeding, backed training and beritt, riding instruction for all levels, and the sale of well-bred, well-handled horses. Lessons and bookings are managed through an integrated online booking system. The operation is rooted in a deep respect for the Icelandic breed and its distinctive gaits.

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Pony-Gestüt-Clus

Bad Gandersheim, Germany

Pony-Gestüt Clus is the oldest pony stud in Germany, breeding at the former monastery estate of Clus near Bad Gandersheim in southern Lower Saxony since 1935. Around 30 German Classic Ponies live on the surrounding pastures, and the stud runs a covering station and rears its own colts. Since 2002 the estate has also held an FN-certified five-star riding facility with an indoor school, livery boxes and a children's riding school. The family competes in driving, tours with a Classic Pony show team, and hosts shows, driving days and clinics with the local riding and driving club.

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Rennstall Wöhler

Bad Fallingbostel, Germany

Rennstall Wöhler is a German Thoroughbred breeding and racing stable based in Bad Fallingbostel, run through its Gestüt Riepegrund breeding operation. The stable breeds, owns, and campaigns Thoroughbred racehorses that compete at tracks across Germany, including Hoppegarten, Hannover, and Bad Harzburg. Its stud farm at Riepegrund manages the broodmare band, foaling, and rearing of young stock, while the racing side handles training coordination and race entries for the stable colors. Rennstall Wöhler also sells yearlings through German bloodstock auctions and maintains an active online presence documenting race results and stable news.

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Allerhop

Bad Fallingbostel, Germany

Allerhop is a small pony and horse farm in Mengebostel near Bad Fallingbostel run by Hille and Oliver Hennig. The farm focuses on breeding well-socialised children's ponies, raising foals in natural herd conditions to develop calm, balanced temperaments. Boarding livery is also available for horses and ponies in open-stable (Offenstall) and full-pasture keeping. Visitors are welcome to explore the mixed collection of animals on the property.

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Reitschule Horstmann

Bad Essen, Germany

Reitschule Horstmann in Bad Essen teaches classical horsemanship in the tradition of the Ecole de Légèreté, working towards lightness, harmony and clear communication between horse and rider. Christiane and Hanna Horstmann give regular lessons at the yard, travel to clinics at other facilities, and run multi-day courses and single training days. The programme spans ground work and liberty training through to advanced dressage movements such as piaffe, passage and pirouettes, with video analysis available. The family also keeps a small breeding operation for Camargue horses and Lusitanos.

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Lahmann Sportpferdezucht

Bad Eilsen, Germany

Lahmann Sportpferdezucht is a sport horse breeding operation in Bad Eilsen maintaining a curated broodmare line and producing quality competition horses. The stud offers horses for sale and showcases successful competition results. The breeding programme focuses on producing high-quality horses for equestrian sport disciplines.

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Gestüt Dillmann

Aurich, Germany

Gestüt Dillmann is a stud farm and horse boarding facility based in Aurich, Germany. The property offers pension boarding services for horses in a professional equestrian environment. Managed by Michelle Dillmann, the stud farm provides attentive care tailored to each horse's individual needs.

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Ponyhof Sodenburg

Aurich, Germany

Ponyhof Sodenburg is a Welsh Cob breeding farm in East Friesland (Ostfriesland), Germany, dedicated to raising this Welsh pony breed with a family-oriented approach. The farm keeps breeding stallions and mares, including Zampino Zalamero W, Arvalon Mister Armani, and dams such as Wilberts Roxette Bambi and Arvalon Diamond Diva, and offers young Welsh Cobs and foals for sale to prospective owners. Alongside breeding, the farm provides training services and educational content to promote enthusiasm for the breed. Sodenburg positions itself as a dedicated, small-scale breeder focused on quality upbringing over volume.

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Ponygestüt "Silbersee"

Aurich, Germany

Ponygestüt Silbersee is a family-run Shetland pony stud farm near Aurich in Lower Saxony, Germany, with over 50 years of successful breeding experience. The farm breeds and sells Shetland ponies renowned as ideal companions for children and families. Every pony is carefully socialised and bred to meet high standards of health and temperament. Prospective buyers are welcome to visit and meet the herd on site.

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Sportpferde-PUR

Maria-Theresia-Straße 9, 81675 München, Germany

Sportpferde-PUR is a horse breeding operation. Its focus is the Trakehner horse, combined with warmblood lines that have proven themselves in top sport. The stud breeds and raises horses with the aim of sport performance and keeps stallions and mares. Its mares and foals are presented at mare shows.

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Gestüt Lindenhof

München-Bogenhausen, Germany

Gestüt Lindenhof is a horse breeding and boarding facility located in Munich-Bogenhausen, Germany. The stable offers full-service horse boarding with attentive, heart-led care in a well-maintained environment. Boarders benefit from access to quality paddocks and facilities suited to both sport and leisure horses.

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Reit- und Zuchthof Reglauer

Starnberg-Wangen, Germany

Reit- und Zuchthof Reglauer is a family-run equestrian stud farm, riding school, and boarding facility in Starnberg-Wangen, Bavaria, run by the Reglauer family for over 30 years. The yard stables around 45 private horses in individual boxes across 200,000 square metres of pasture, with direct access to the riding trails of Forstenrieder Park. Riders can take weekly dressage and show-jumping lessons at various levels, while the farm also breeds premium Bavarian and Hanoverian warmblood mares, including several state-premiated and elite mares. Facilities include a covered riding hall, an outdoor sand arena, a grass arena, and a floodlit round pen. Founded in 1982 with a single Haflinger mare, the operation has grown into a well-regarded breeding and boarding yard south of Munich.

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Verband der Breeder der Spezialpferderassen in Bayern e. V

München-Dornach, Germany

The Bavarian Breeding Association for Small Horses and Special Horse Breeds (BZVKS e.V.) is a horse breeding association based in Munich, Germany, founded in 1948. It represents and supports breeders of small horse breeds and specialty equine breeds across Bavaria, including Icelandic horses, ponies, and rare breeds such as the Criollo and the Bosnian horse. The association organizes breeding evaluations, stallion licensing, mare studbook admissions, and young-horse material tests and gradings throughout the year. It is a member of the German Equestrian Federation (FN) and works with regional pony and specialty-breed clubs across Bavaria.

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Reitstall Schweizer Hof Eggenberg, Antonia & Christoph Gaillinger

Allershausen, Germany

Reitstall Schweizer Hof is an equestrian facility near Munich specialising in horse breeding, sales, boarding, and riding instruction. The facility breeds and rears horses and ponies of various breeds, offering a curated selection for sale alongside assistance in sourcing specific horses through an established network. Riding lessons and boarding services are available for clients at both the Allershausen and Brunnthal locations.

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