Breeding operations and stallion stations — find a farm to stand your mare or shop the next generation.
J2L Dressage Horses is a dressage horse breeding and training yard in Hoogstraten with a focus on young horses. It breaks in and trains client horses, including for competition. It gives dressage lessons from beginner to small tour level and sells dressage horses. The yard also buys young dressage horses.
Stal De Merlenberg is a small breeding yard for Welsh ponies in Deurne, founded in the 1990s. It stands Section A stallions and offers young mares and ponies for sale. Children can take pony riding lessons, on their own pony or one of the yard's ponies. The yard also breaks in ponies and offers livery.
StuDutch is a stud in Sint-Michielsgestel run by Sjaak van der Lei and Jenny Toes. It breeds, raises and trains dressage and show jumping horses. StuDutch is the exclusive dealer for several well-known stallions and sells their semen per straw. It also offers frozen embryos, ICSI and foals.
Stoeterij De Hoeve is a stud and training yard in Sint-Oedenrode run by rider Mirelle van Kemenade-Witlox. It breeds three to four foals a year and raises them before their sport training. The yard trains and schools horses and helps clients buy and sell horses. Mirelle coaches horse-and-rider combinations up to Grand Prix level and gives dressage clinics.
Stoeterij VZ Hackerom is a breeding, sport and sales stable in Erp, founded by Antoon Koenen. It breeds sport horses from proven bloodlines and keeps broodmares, young horses and foals. A team of riders trains young horses, advanced horses and show jumpers. Stables can be rented by professionals, and the arena can be hired in the evenings.
EC Horses is a show jumping horse business in Peer, Belgium, run by Eduardo Gouveia and Claudia Garcia de Paredes. It breeds jumpers, mainly Zangersheide-registered, from its own broodmares. The business also trains and develops young horses, trades sport horses and scouts horses for clients.
Piet Lenskens Sporthorses is a training and sales stable focused on dressage, based at Stoeterij Lindehof near Peer. It schools dressage horses, competes them and starts young riding horses under saddle. It also prepares young stallions for performance tests and buys and sells dressage horses. The stable breeds and trades foals from proven dressage and jumping lines.
Stal Hermeshof is a draft horse breeding farm in Maaseik, founded in 1984. It stands several draft stallions at stud and also offers frozen semen from current and past stallions. The farm sells horses and provides foaling support. It also runs horse-drawn tram rides through the Maasland region.
Stal Scheerdonk is a family-run stud in Nederwetten that breeds Welsh Cobs and Welsh mountain ponies. The stud keeps its own stallion, Perlhof Gable, alongside a group of broodmares and youngstock. Foals and young ponies are offered for sale, and the family also shows its ponies.
Stal van de Sande is a family-run sales stable, dressage horse breeder and approved EU breeding station in Liempde. It stands several stallions, including For Ferrero, with semen available to order. The business started in 2004 as a sport horse dealer and still buys and sells dressage horses. Its breeding focuses on character, health and natural talent.
Van Bockxgrave Horses is a stallion station in Hapert. It stands a collection of dressage stallions plus a jumping stallion, several of them bred by the business itself. Fresh semen is available daily and can be ordered via the site. The business also breeds its own foals and runs an online auction.
Hengstenhouderij 'Den Hoorn' is a stallion station in Sint-Oedenrode run by Arjan and Jolanda Bekkers. It stands a collection of jumping, dressage and pony stallions and also offers frozen semen. The team advises mare owners on choosing a stallion that suits their mare's bloodline. The business also cares for, trains and raises horses and holds an annual stallion show.
Stal Poppelaars in Heusden breeds dressage and show jumping horses alongside a competition sport stable. It is run by Koos Poppelaars and dressage rider Mara de Vries. Horses from the breeding programme include approved stallions and international sport horses. Foals, young horses and horses for sale are presented on the site.
Stal de Kerkhoeve is a dressage stable in Arendonk run by Toby Horsting and Marjolein Zijlema. It specialises in buying and selling, breeding and training sport horses. Horses for sale are selected on character, conformation and movement and are vetted. The facility has 15 stables, an indoor and outdoor arena, a lunging ring, paddocks and a covered horse walker.
Absolutely Stables is a small-scale miniature horse breeder in Cromvoirt, North Brabant. It breeds miniature horses registered with the ASPC, AMHR and NMPRS studbooks. The stable regularly offers miniature horses for sale, from foals to adults, and helps with buying and selling them. It takes part in shows and inspections with its horses.
Spliethof Paarden in Bladel, in the Kempen region of Brabant, specialises in breeding Friesian horses. It stands Friesian stallions such as Fonger 478, Fryso 518 and Hessel 480 and supplies semen, with insemination at home in the south of the Netherlands. The yard gives breeding advice on mare selection and stallion choice. It also trains mares and stallions to prepare them for inspections and performance tests.
Stal Verbakel is a family-run horse yard in Aarle-Rixtel that has kept horses for fifty years and focuses on sport horses, breeding and livery. It boards around forty horses and ponies, with daily turnout on 5 hectares of grassland, daily mucking out, concentrate feed twice a day and roughage three times a day. Facilities include an indoor arena, an outdoor arena, a jumping field, two lunging rings, a horse walker and wash bays. Hacking is possible in the nearby woods.
De Goedereede is a horse breeding operation in Turnhout, Belgium, that has focused exclusively on breeding show jumping horses for twenty years. It uses selected stallions on its mares, whose dam lines include internationally competing horses. The farm raises horses from foals up to seven years old and develops them as far as possible. Horses bred there carry the De Goedereede suffix.
Stal Krol in Handel, North Brabant, is a family horse business run by Nelleke Krol and founded by her father Nico Krol. Horses for sale: selling horses is its core, along with guidance for clients buying and selling horses. It also breeds, raises and trains dressage and show jumping horses, and Nelleke gives lessons up to Grand Prix level.
AM Rising Star Ranch is a Quarter Horse ranch in the Netherlands, established in 2008. It stands the breeding stallions West Coast Trash, Whiz N Spook, Spooks Of Genius and Gunner Rev. The team includes international riders who travel to shows and compete in reining. The ranch also handles freight transport for its horses and sells horses.
Jorestha Stables is a breeding yard in Holsbeek specialising in dressage and reining sport horses. It combines bloodlines to breed talented horses that are easy to handle, then trains them and sells them internationally. The yard also offers rehabilitation, physiotherapy, laser therapy and electrostimulation for horse and rider.
Kantjes New Forest Pony is a New Forest pony breeding farm in Schaijk, North Brabant, located in the Maashorst nature area. Run by Eric van de Rakt and Fokje Huisman, it breeds children's, all-round and sport ponies and keeps stallions. The team prepares ponies for inspections and shows and handles buying and selling of ponies. Foals from the stud have been sold to several European countries, and the farm offers ponies for sale and at stud.
Stoeterij Van de Helle is a Belgian stud farm, in operation for more than 30 years, organised in three parts: a stallion station, a breeding programme and sport horses. It offers around fifteen stallions at stud, all approved by a Belgian studbook and tested negative for WFFS, and they compete in stallion competitions and young-horse classes. The stud breeds from about ten mares from good damlines and produces and competes around fifty sport horses, mostly four- and five-year-olds. Most sport horses are sold as five- and six-year-olds.
Hengstenhouderij en Trainingsstal Marcel van Bruggen is a stallion station and training stable in Varik. Its stud stands stallions from several breeding directions, including Gelderland, dressage, harness (tuigpaard), Baroque Pinto and Friesian stallions. The yard offers mare care during breeding, runs its own breeding programme with foals and mares, and sells horses and ponies.
