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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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VET Stables

Entschendorf am Ottersbach 49, 8093 St.Peter am Ottersbach, Austria

VET Stables is an equine reproduction centre in Styria run by veterinarian Verena Edelsbrunner. It offers artificial insemination of mares, embryo transfer, foaling supervision and a frozen-semen depot of breeding stallions. The facility, a former riding yard, has a treatment stand in the stable, an in-house laboratory, boxes, run-in stables and pastures for mares and foals in its care. It also breeds horses and offers horses for sale.

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Lindenhof

Dorfstraße 57, 8071 Hausmannstätten, Austria

Lindenhof in Hausmannstätten combines a small children's riding school with breeding of Pura Raza Española (PRE) horses. The riding school teaches children aged 3 to 12 on four ponies and small horses, covering leading, grooming, saddling and bridling as well as riding. The farm breeds PRE horses, hosts breed inspections for the Spanish breed association and sells home-bred and imported horses. Its trained show and film horses are booked for events, photo shoots and film productions, and the yard runs clinics with international trainers.

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Jahalni center kmetija Janhar

Hraše 46, 1216 Hraše, SI

Jahalni center kmetija Janhar is a family riding centre in Hraše near Smlednik, focused on horses since 1994. It offers horse boarding, a riding school, trail and experiential riding, and pony rides for young children. The farm breeds Lipizzaners and its own horses for riding and driving, and offers carriage rides. Summer workshops and riding camps are run for children.

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Kobilarna Lipica

Lipica 15, 6210 Sežana, SI

Kobilarna Lipica in Slovenia is the home stud of the Lipizzaner breed, keeping more than 400 white Lipizzaners on over 300 hectares. Its breeding tradition is inscribed on UNESCO's list of intangible cultural heritage. Visitors can watch training sessions and performances of the Lipica riding school, take guided tours, carriage rides and riding. The stud also sells horses and hosts equestrian competitions on its racecourse.

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Karinthia Welshpony

Strandbadstraße 9, 9580 Drobollach am Faaker See, Austria

Karinthia Welshpony is a small Welsh Pony Section C breeding operation on an organic farm near Lake Faak in Carinthia, Austria. The breeding mares live in open stabling with plenty of turnout, and foals stay with their dams for up to a year before joining young-horse groups. The farm stands stud stallions and offers ponies for sale. It also provides riding lessons and courses such as natural horsemanship and seat training, with its Welsh ponies and Cobs available as course horses.

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Reitclub Quinta do Sol

Purbergstraße, 8044 Graz-Mariatrost, Austria

Reitclub Quinta do Sol is a riding facility in Graz-Mariatrost, Austria, run by two Lusitano enthusiasts. They have bred Lusitano horses since 2002. The yard offers boarding in stable boxes, outdoor boxes and boxes with paddock, with hay, concentrate feed and daily turnout included. Riding lessons on Lusitanos are given on site.

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Islandpferdehof Mooskirchen

Fluttendorf 7, 8562 Mooskirchen, Austria

Islandpferdehof Mooskirchen is an Icelandic horse farm in Mooskirchen, Styria, run by Monika and Karo Wenzel. It offers riding lessons for beginners, advanced and competition riders, including instruction in the tölt and pace gaits, classical dressage, vaulting and integrative riding. The farm hosts clinics with guest trainers, trail rides and riding camps for children, and has an oval track, an indoor arena and a round pen. It also provides short-term boarding, training of client horses, a stallion station, young horse rearing and sales of leisure and competition horses.

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Strasserhof

Rotmoosweg 12, 8045 Graz, Austria

Strasserhof is a family-run riding yard in Graz-Andritz that has cared for horses for three generations. The facility has an indoor arena (20 x 40 m), a dressage arena (20 x 60 m), a jumping arena, round pen, horse walker, solarium and large paddocks. It keeps livery horses for owners, from dressage horses to children's ponies. Since 2000 the yard has bred Austrian Warmbloods, raising its youngstock in an open stable with paddocks before experienced riders start their training.

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Shagya Araber Zucht Hemmer

Pichling 268, 8510 Stainz, Austria

The Hemmer family in Stainz has bred Shagya Arabians since 1991. The breeding programme includes mares and licensed, performance-tested stallions, one of which is available via frozen semen for Europe and the USA. Horses from the breeding have won class titles and European championships at breed shows. Horses for sale are listed on the site.

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Gestüt Wisperndorf

Wisperndorf 6, 9462 Bad St. Leonhard, Austria

Gestüt Wisperndorf is a horse stud north of Bad St. Leonhard in the upper Lavanttal focused on Haflinger breeding. It keeps breeding mares, young horses and sport horses, and a licensed stallion stands at the stud for the 2026 season. The farm also offers livery, horse training and riding lessons, and lists horses for sale. It is run by Andreas and Daniela Zettl, both active in riding and driving competition.

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Pferdehof Kulmland

Gschmaier 75, 8265 Gersdorf an der Feistritz, Austria

Pferdehof Kulmland is a horse farm in Gersdorf an der Feistritz offering horse boarding, including open-stable places, and horse training. Individual riding lessons are given, and the surroundings are used for hacks and forest rides with the farm's horses. The farm breeds Haflingers, Norikers, Austrian Warmbloods, Trakehners and riding ponies, and lists horses for sale. It also holds monthly activities such as groundwork and loading training.

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Gestüt El Saraja

Weißenbach-Rieding 7, 9431 Wolfsberg, Austria

Gestüt El Saraja has bred purebred Mini-Shetland ponies since 1989, with all lines traceable to English breeding. The stud keeps licensed breeding stallions, mares and youngstock, and all breeding ponies are tested free of the dwarfism forms ACAN and SA. Ponies in various special colours are offered for sale, from hobby ponies to breeding mares. Visits can be arranged Monday to Saturday, and the breeders give advice on the breed, keeping and feeding.

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Biohof Hoferbauer

Winklern 5, 9562 Sonnleiten, Austria

Biohof Hoferbauer in Himmelberg, Carinthia, is an organic farm run by Friedhelm and Eva Natmessnig. Besides organic hay milk, the farm keeps and raises sport horses and runs a small warmblood breeding. Horses live in boxes in an open stable with daily pasture.

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Pinto for Pleasure

Gritschacher Str. 1, 9871 Seeboden am Millstätter See, Austria

Pinto for Pleasure is the breeding partnership Wertl & Piuk in Seeboden am Millstätter See, Carinthia. For over 30 years it has bred Pintabians, Partbred Arabians and Pinto riding horses as versatile leisure partners. Its breeding stallion NorCal Sierra SnoMan is a licensed, performance-tested Pintabian. The breeder keeps broodmares from several countries and offers foals and horses for sale.

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Reit-, Sport- und Zuchtanlage Gasper Tannenhof

Punitzer Str. 8a, 7540 Güssing, Austria

Tannenhof is a riding, sport and breeding facility in Güssing in southern Burgenland. It offers boarding with a large indoor arena, extensive paddocks, a cross-country course and a jumping ground. The yard breeds from its own selected broodmares, sells horses and brings on young horses and competition riders. An associated regional riding club offers riding instruction for leisure and competition riders of all ages.

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Zucht- und Ausbildungsstall Winter

Weichenberg 1, 7571 Rudersdorf, Austria

Zucht- und Ausbildungsstall Winter in Rudersdorf, Burgenland, combines horse breeding, training of horses and riders, and a riding club. Its stallion station stands active breeding stallions for show-jumping and dressage breeding, and it keeps broodmares and raises foals. A separate sport and training yard has an indoor arena, dressage arenas, a jumping field and boxes. The yard hosts jumping and dressage shows and an annual horse festival.

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Sunhillstables

Krumphof 1, 7561 Poppendorf, Austria

Sunhillstables is a ranch at the Krumphof in Poppendorf near Heiligenkreuz, Burgenland. It has bred Quarter Horses and Paint Horses for many years in a small hobby breeding operation. Boarders have boxes with paddocks or open stables, a 25 x 72 m arena partly covered, an 18 m round pen, a horse walker, a wash bay, a solarium, large pastures and a small extreme trail park. The ranch also breeds Mini Australian Shepherds and offers archery.

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Lusitano-Gestüt Quinta do Sol

Purbergstraße 54, 8044 Graz, Austria

Lusitano-Gestüt Quinta do Sol is a Lusitano stud in Mariatrost, Graz, describing itself as Austria's first Lusitano breeding operation. It breeds Lusitanos and keeps several breeding stallions that are also available to outside mares of any breed. The stud brokers and sells horses, offers riding lessons and courses, and runs a riding and boarding stable.

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Bio- und Pferdehof Stockner

Stocknerweg 69, 8163 Fladnitz an der Teichalm, Austria

Bio- und Pferdehof Stockner is an organic horse farm in Fladnitz an der Teichalm in the Almenland nature park, Austria. Riding lessons are given on school horses through the on-site riding operation, and the farm has its own riding club. The family breeds New Forest ponies and takes in boarding horses. Holiday flats are also available on the farm.

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Gut Fronleitenhof

Fronleiten 1, 2851 Krumbach, Austria

Gut Fronleitenhof is a family-run stud in Krumbach, Austria, breeding purebred Arabian horses for sport. Breeding is led by Petra Dries and uses performance-tested stallions and mares, with quality checked through competition results. The stud keeps breeding mares and stallions, has horses for sale, and trains its young horses. The team also competes with the horses.

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HOLZER HOF

Schrauding 10, 8130 Frohnleiten, Austria

HOLZER HOF is a riding stable in Frohnleiten, Austria, run by Stefanie Holzer. The yard breeds its own horses, raised in a herd with attention to their individual needs. Young horses are trained to become sport horses and are offered to owners who share the yard's horse-centred philosophy. The stable also hosts horse experience days.

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Islandpferde Gestüt Faltensteffl

Weizbachweg 121, 8045 Graz Andritz, Austria

Islandpferde Gestüt Faltensteffl is an Icelandic horse stud in Graz Andritz, Austria. Its breeding specialises in the pure Hornafjördur line, with breeding stallions and broodmares. The horses live in groups, on pasture in summer and in an open stable in winter, and young horses spend their first summers on an alpine pasture. The site also covers riding, polo and horses for sale.

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Pferde Glücksmomente

Oberkrimml 3, 5743 Krimml, Austria

Pferde Glücksmomente is a pony and riding school in Krimml in the Oberpinzgau region of Austria, describing itself as the first Team Pony school in Austria. It teaches children from a young age to handle and ride ponies using the Team Pony Concept, and offers riding lessons and hacks for children and adults. Guided trail rides take riders through streams, forests and mountain terrain. A certified learning trainer offers horse-assisted learning sessions for children, and the yard also runs a small horse breeding programme.

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Reining Horses

9FW7+36, Schwarzenbach, 18, 39050 Deutschnofen - Nova Ponente, Italy

Reining Horses is a reining yard at the Stallerhof in Deutschnofen, South Tyrol, run by Luis Kompatscher. It offers horse training and young-horse training and competes in reining shows, with Elena and Elia Kompatscher also showing. The yard breeds horses with its own stallions and mares and offers horses for sale. Luis Kompatscher has trained western riding since the late 1980s.

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