Breeding operations and stallion stations — find a farm to stand your mare or shop the next generation.
Élevage du Theil in Normandy, near the bay of Mont-Saint-Michel, has bred Selle Français sport horses for over 40 years. It works on 25 hectares of pasture. It sells show jumping horses and lists its broodmares and results.
Haras de la Bouloye in Wirwignes, Pas-de-Calais, stands sport horse stallions and manages stallions of all breeds with semen analysis. It offers foaling with 24-hour monitoring and embryo transfer, a service it has provided for over 20 years. It also provides recipient mares and breeding livery.
Cheval Roy is a riding school at Mornimont, Jemeppe-sur-Sambre, in the province of Namur, Belgium. Its instructors teach arena lessons, show jumping and dressage. It offers boarding with boxes bedded daily and horses fed twice a day, and it breeds foals.
Poney Club de Rombly offers riding on ponies and horses all year and during school holidays. It runs annual lessons and competitions. It also breeds ponies, with a stallion and broodmares.
Dunne Sport Horses is run by Danny and Alice Dunne at Heatherwold Stud near Newbury. They compete, produce and sell show jumping horses and run a breeding programme. Services include livery, renting, training and breeding.
Coed Newydd Stud near Reynoldston, Swansea, breeds registered Welsh Section D cobs. It has bred Welsh Cobs since 1974. Some horses are available for sale and some for lease.
Combe Farm in Devon breeds Arabian horses bred by Michael Harris. It has stallions at stud and brood mares. Ridden horses, youngsters and mares are offered for sale, and visitors can join days out and volunteering.
MH West Ranch in Lignol, Brittany, breeds Quarter Horses and Paint Horses on about 60 hectares. The owners train their own horses and compete with horses from their breeding. They also offer services and events.
Tresorya Welsh Cobs breeds Welsh Section D cobs and part-breds, including palomino, cremello, perlino and buckskin colours. It stands licensed stallions such as Tresorya Cornish Cream. Foals, youngstock, mares, stallions and geldings are offered for sale.
Tomlinson Equine is an equine veterinary practice in the Cotswolds specialising in breeding and performance. It offers ambulatory vet services, artificial insemination, embryo transfer and OPU/ICSI. It also stands sport horse and polo stallions with frozen semen available.
Haras du Géry at Nueil-les-Aubiers, near Cholet in France, has bred sport horses for 25 years. It has 10 to 15 broodmares and raises foals, yearlings and young horses on 120 hectares of grassland. It stands stallions and sells young horses.
Yeguada Lago is a Pura Raza Española (PRE) stud at Knapp Farm in Dorset. Its stallions at stud are Gaspar de Valle and Lago Fulgor, available by natural covering and artificial insemination. The stud also offers foaling, youngstock, competition and sales livery, and backing and schooling. Horses for sale include PREs and part-breds.
Masons Stud & Livery at Littleton near Winchester is a family-owned livery yard and stud run by Harriet for over 25 years. It offers full, schooling and production livery for about 20 horses and 5 ponies. It breeds a small number of youngsters.
Team Opposition is based at Landford Common Farm and Stud, home of the Opposition breeding line. 5* event rider Kirsty Johnston trains riders from grassroots to CCI4*-L level. The yard also runs the Aquastride water treadmill for client horses.
Clifford's Kingdom is a Suffolk Punch horse centre in Cornwall founded by Jessica Miller. It breeds the rare Suffolk Punch and offers horse rides, carriage rides, horse-drawn funerals, family and school visits and equine assisted therapy sessions.
Weemala Performance Horses is owned by Isabel Widdison and Sandi Frolich near Michelago, NSW, Australia. They breed performance horses with Morgan bloodlines. Both owners have bred and trained horses for many years.
DevonShireFarm is a Devon farm that breeds Shire horses and uses them to work its land and woodlands. It runs heavy horse, horse logging and Shire horse experience courses. It also takes on horse logging commissions and gives demonstrations and shows.
Muddycreek New Forest Pony is a family-run New Forest commoning unit at Milford-on-Sea. It breeds and raises pedigree New Forest ponies and has bred foals almost every year since 2010. Its stallion Sway Scrumpy Jack is available for private use. The farm also runs a campsite.
Rozel Breeding Centre breeds and produces jumping-bred performance horses and is a DEFRA-approved EU stallion freezing and collection centre. It supplies semen from UK and European stallions and offers mare AI packages, embryo transfer, foaling down and stallion services. Some young horses are for sale.
Groen Equestrian is run by Esther Groen from a base in Worcestershire. She is a BHS-trained instructor and biomechanics coach who uses a riding simulator, and she also works as a saddle fitter and endurance coach. The business runs a performance stud with stallions, mares and young stock.
Forest Lodge Stud is a small stud and livery yard near Wincanton, Somerset. It breeds two or three foals a year from eventing and dressage bloodlines and sells foals and horses in training. It runs a full livery service and has off-road hacking.
Radford Shires breeds and shows Shire horses. It was founded in 1972 by Mike Horler and later run by his son Colin, who formed a heavy horse display team. Colin and Tracy now breed and show in-hand Shires and have horses for sale.
MGH Sport Horses is an equine breeding, training and trading yard on 150 acres in Devon, run by international event rider Padraig McCarthy and Lucy McCarthy. It breeds, sources, produces and sells event horses, specialising in Irish Sport Horses. It also offers schooling, livery, lessons, clinics and competition coaching.
Zone R Equitation is a pony club and livery yard in Bazas, Sud Gironde, run alongside the farm of Camille Estrade. It breeds Lusitano and cross-bred horses. Services listed include field livery, foaling livery, teaching for children and adults, hay sales and equine transport.
