Breeding operations and stallion stations — find a farm to stand your mare or shop the next generation.
Ruskington Shire Stud is a family-run Shire and Clydesdale stud at Shire Farm in Lincolnshire. It stands stallions and offers natural service, chilled semen and artificial insemination by a DEFRA approved AI technician. It also offers foaling and sells youngstock.
Kingwood Stud is in Lambourn Woodlands, Berkshire. It boards broodmares, foals and yearlings, handles foaling and prepares horses for the sales. It also breaks in yearlings, offers pre-training and rest and rehabilitation for racehorses, and overnight boarding for travelling horses.
Northmore Stud is a private stud on the edge of Exning near Newmarket, spread over 100 acres. It boards mares, foals and other horses for the breeding season and as permanent boarders. It also prepares mares, yearlings and foals for the sales.
Greyridge Bloodstock is a thoroughbred stud farm at Glebe Farm in Hindon, Wiltshire, with about 65 acres of paddocks and 34 boxes. It cares for broodmares, foals, yearlings, stores and racehorses coming out of training. Services include foaling, youngstock care, sales preparation and rest and recuperation.
Darley is a thoroughbred stallion operation headquartered at Dalham Hall Stud in Newmarket. It stands stallions in several countries and takes nomination requests from mare owners. It also publishes runners and results for its stallions' progeny.
Willow Hill Farm in Keeseville, New York, is a full service equestrian center. It offers riding lessons, summer camps, boarding and training, and breeding and sales. Lessons focus on horsemanship, dressage, stadium jumping and cross country.
Boland Stud in the Western Cape prepares and sells racing thoroughbreds at BloodStock SA and Race Coast sales. Services include permanent livery, sales preparation and representation, mating recommendations and transport to sires. It also offers foaling-down, weaning, spelling and retirement.
Kentford Farm Stud in Hampshire is a stud and livery farm. Services include foaling, weaning, AI, full livery, rehabilitation and retirement. Facilities include CCTV monitored foaling boxes and barns for restricted exercise on over 200 acres of pasture.
Fairbanks Stable is a boarding and training barn in Schoharie County, New York, established in 2005. It offers full board, training board, retirement and rehab board, private and group lessons, clinics and shows. It also breeds horses aimed at adult amateur riders.
Painted Bar Stables near Watkins Glen, New York is a riding facility offering year-round guided trail rides, lessons, leasing and full care boarding. It also runs camps, clinics and team-building workshops with horses. Breeding services include a stallion at stud and custom foals.
SPR Horses breeds sport and performance horses using imported semen and mares of imported bloodlines. It produces only a few foals a year. Young horses are raised in a herd in large open paddocks and trained for riders.
Wellpark Sports Horses is a livery yard on the Cornwall and Devon border. It offers part, full, schooling and competition livery, plus backing and rehabilitation. The yard runs a small breeding programme of 3-6 foals a year aimed at eventing, and has youngsters and ridden horses for sale.
Stonecreek Friesians is a family farm near St Marys, Ontario dedicated to Friesian horses. The Steenbeek family breeds, raises, trains and shows Friesians. Horses are offered for sale.
Twinbrook Farms is a family-run Standardbred breeding farm in Embro, Ontario. It is home to nearly 100 horses on 130 acres. The farm produces yearlings for the harness racing industry and consigns them to yearling sales.
Greenbank Hollow Farm in Danville, Vermont breeds and trains Sport Morgans for dressage, driving and eventing. It raises only a few foals per year and offers driving lessons and training. The farm also breeds Irish Setters.
Haras du Lannoy is an equestrian centre in Ennevelin, south of Lille, set on a 6-hectare site with two covered arenas, outdoor arenas, a lunging ring, paddocks and pastures. Affiliated with the French Equestrian Federation, it offers riding lessons and coaching for all levels in dressage, show jumping, cross-country and trail riding. It provides box and outdoor livery for horses and ponies, equestrian tourism training, and the starting, schooling and sale of horses and ponies. The yard also breeds Lusitano horses.
Agro Leuener is a family-run farm in Sennwald in the St. Gallen Rhine Valley that switched to horse keeping in 2014. Its focus is horse breeding and species-appropriate horse boarding on 60 hectares surrounded by pasture and riding country. It grows feed for the boarded horses on its own land. The farm also runs a riding school for children and offers agricultural trading and winter services.
Equestrian Center Opfenbach is a specialist veterinary practice for horses led by equine vet Gerhard Assmann. It offers 24-hour colic, accident and emergency surgery, sports medicine, orthopaedics, dental treatment and mobile diagnostics such as endoscopy and digital X-ray. The practice also provides insemination and embryo transfer services. Alongside the clinic it breeds warmbloods and ponies, stands several stallions and offers horses for sale.
Robausch Reining Horses is a western riding ranch in St. Lorenzen im Mürztal run by Ilse and Christian Robausch. It offers riding lessons for children, teenagers and adults, preparation for riding exams up to the Western Riding Certificate, and western, groundwork and horse-care courses. It also runs young-horse training, foal training and western camps for children. The ranch breeds and sells reining horses, advises on horse purchases and has a covered arena with reining footing and a stallion station.
Glis Ranch is a Western riding stable in Annenheim, Carinthia, founded in 1978. It offers Western and English riding lessons for beginners and advanced riders, individually or in groups. The instructors are recognised Western riding trainers, one of them a state-certified Western riding instructor. The ranch also keeps breeding stallions and helps riders looking for a horse.
Wellinghof is an Icelandic horse farm in Kitzeck im Sausal in the South Styria nature park, run by Anna Haerdtl and her family. It offers group and private riding lessons for beginners and advanced riders, and hacks on school horses or the rider's own horse. The farm also runs riding camp weeks and trail rides, takes boarders, and breeds and sells horses. Its horses live on large pastures in summer and in open stables in winter.
Pferdehof Saurugg is a family-run horse farm in Gniebing near Feldbach, Austria, run by Nina and Markus Saurugg. Its focus is training young horses and presenting them at competitions. It offers riding instruction from beginner level up to S-class. Breeding and horse sales are a further focus, and the site lists sale horses and a boarding service.
Pferdehof Seidler is a small horse farm in Kottingbrunn, Austria, founded by the Seidler family in 2020. It boards horses in 18 boxes, with full-day turnout, hay three times and concentrate twice daily, and daily mucking out included. Extra services such as rug changes and hoof picking are available on request. The farm also breeds horses from its own broodmares and offers horses for sale.
Pferdeboxenvermietung is run by Gerhard Wippl in Bischofstetten, Austria, and rents out horse stabling boxes for events. The business also breeds horses, including the licensed show-jumping stallion Staphael and his offspring. Its site reports competition results of horses from its breeding.
