Breeding operations and stallion stations — find a farm to stand your mare or shop the next generation.
Hoeve Ter Linden is a family-run horse livery, breeding farm and stallion station in Kruishoutem, East Flanders. It stands breeding stallions, including homozygous coloured stallions, and takes semen orders. The farm breeds coloured sport horses and offers foals, broodmares and young horses for sale. It also hosts a jumping show.
Kees van den Oetelaar is a stud farm, sport stable and trading stable in Schijndel, the Netherlands. It stands a large roster of show-jumping stallions, with a dedicated stallion station. The stable also presents sport horses and follows its horses' results in competition. It works with a network of dealers.
Dibbits Horssen is a family business in Horssen, Netherlands, combining a stallion station, a breeding operation and a rider shop. It stands Shetland, Appaloosa, NRPS and Welsh stallions and has bred Shetland ponies for many years under the Ponyhoeve name. Its Ruitershop sells riding and competition clothing, helmets, riding boots and care products for ponies and horses. It also sells sports trophies for various sports.
Hengstenhouderij De IJzeren Man in Weert, Netherlands, is a certified stallion station offering dressage and show jumping stallions, with semen available to order. Its collection includes its own stallions and stallions from partners Deckstation Paul Schockemöhle, Blue Hors and Helgstrand Dressage. A dressage branch led by Niels Bax trains and schools dressage horses and gives dressage instruction. It also sells sport horses and brokers sales.
Hengstenhouderij de Rietvenne is a family-run stallion station operated by the van Dommelen family. It supplies semen from several stallions and carries out insemination. Its stallions are presented with their breeding, colour and height, and videos of the stallions are available on the site.
Stal Joppen is an international dealing stable in Maasbree, Netherlands, known for show jumping horses. Founded in 1999 by Loewie Joppen, it trains around 35 horses daily and brings them up to top level. Facilities include indoor and outdoor arenas, a covered lunging ring, a gallop track, paddocks and a horse walker. It works with partner stables in the USA, Canada and Belgium.
Hengstenhouderij van Wanrooij is a family stallion station in Erp, Netherlands, founded in 1976 and focused on Shetland ponies. It offers a yearly selection of Shetland stallions for breeding, and also rents out and sells stallions. The team advises breeders on choosing the right stallion and offers scanning of mares. It is now run mainly by Marga Cremers-van Wanrooij.
Hengstenhouderij Van Langenhove in Denderbelle, Belgium, is a stallion station for the Belgian Draught Horse with more than 50 years of history. Eddy Van Langenhove took it over from his father and pioneered artificial insemination for the breed. Selected draught stallions stand at stud each season, with fresh semen in Belgium and frozen semen for export. It also buys foals to raise as future stallions and offers young horses for sale.
Het Netehof is a family business in Sint-Katelijne-Waver, Belgium, where three generations work with horses. It breeds show jumpers from proven dam lines and stands several breeding stallions, with semen available to order. It also keeps broodmares and youngsters and runs a competition stable, with Jeroen De Winter competing in show jumping. The family is also active in horse trading.
Hengstenhouderij Dirckx is a family-run stallion station and AI centre in Weert, Netherlands, run by Huub Dirckx since 1992. It supplies semen and visits breeders to inseminate their mares. Pregnancy care is a key part of the business, and embryo transfer is offered in cooperation with DAP Ell. Through partner stallion holders it offers a wide choice of breeding stallions.
VOF Braspenning is run by Rob and Marleen Braspenning in Clinge, Zeeuws-Vlaanderen. Rob has been a state-qualified farrier since 1993 and works full time shoeing horses. The yard offers livery for horses and ponies with spacious boxes, an all-weather arena, a horse walker and turnout. They also run a small rearing barn for foals and yearlings and breed horses, and Marleen offers equine photography.
Inverhorses is a sport horse business in Horssen. Simone Kromkamp provides dressage training for horse and rider, takes horses into training and runs clinics on location. The yard breeds horses from its own mares, starts and produces young horses and sells them. Robert works as a farrier, and the team also offers professional bit fitting consultations.
Stal van Vliet is a stallion station founded in 1985 by Lauw van Vliet and built up with Jenet van Vliet. It stands dressage, show jumping, harness and pony stallions and handles inseminations for visiting mares. The yard also prepares horses for inspections, trains mares and stallions, rears young stock and sells sport horses. It has fifty stables.
Moerings Sporthorses is a family-run breeding and training yard in West Brabant. Around 5 to 8 foals are born there each year and are backed and trained from about four years old to become sport horses. Geert, Bas and Eline focus on training and competing show jumpers, while Marie-Louise specialises in dressage horses. The yard stands stallions, keeps breeding mares and sells young and sport horses.
Stoeterij Jeroen Strik is a horse breeding operation in Sterksel. It keeps breeding mares from proven dam lines, some in foal to known stallions, and offers young horses. The site also lists semen storage, straws and shipping with nitrogen and dry shippers. Visits are by appointment.
Bria Stables is a sport horse stable in Hooge Mierde, North Brabant. It focuses on educating and training sport horses to reach their potential. The stable offers sport horses with care and training, and runs its own breeding programme. The team includes Cas, Hubert and Renate Beeren.
Remmington's Ranch is a western-oriented horse ranch in Arendonk, Belgium. It offers boarding on 6.5 hectares with herd living, an open indoor shelter and daily feeding and care. Facilities include two indoor arenas with reining footing, an outdoor arena, a round pen and wash areas. The ranch also runs an AQHA Quarter Horse breeding programme with foals for sale, alongside horsemanship, reining and equine bodywork.
Stal van Hoof is a training yard in Biest-Houtakker run by Willem van Hoof and Yvonne Copal. It prepares young show jumping and dressage horses for stallion and mare inspections, with stallions approved by studbooks such as KWPN and BWP. Professional stables send their young horses to the yard for training. The yard is also involved in breeding and rearing show jumpers.
Manege 't Zandeind in Riel is an FNRS-certified riding school that is part of Stal Huib van der Weide, with more than 85 horses and ponies. It gives group and private dressage and jumping lessons at all levels, as well as lunge lessons, groundwork sessions and lessons for riders with a disability. The manege also offers trail rides, pony camps and boarding. The associated sport stable breeds, trains and sells show jumpers.
Bost Paardenservice is a small professional equestrian centre in Boutersem between Leuven and Tienen, run by Giel Vanhouche and Sofie Meylemans. It trains riders and horses and breeds its own show-jumping and eventing horses, some offered for sale. Livery boxes are available with indoor and outdoor arenas, a horse walker, a covered lunging ring and paddocks. Dressage and jumping lessons can be taken, and the affiliated Team Bost club runs an eventing course.
The Pine Ranch near Bergen op Zoom started in 2003 as a Western training stable and Quarter Horse breeding yard, training and breeding horses for reining competition. It has since become a full livery yard for Western, leisure and dressage riders. Facilities include 60 stables, a 36x80 m arena with reining footing, an outdoor round pen, wash bay, 15 paddocks and 8 hectares of pasture. Bridle paths through nearby woodland are reachable within minutes.
Stal De Bekelaar is a horse centre in Kessel, the Netherlands. It stands breeding stallions, including Bojengel and BB-King, and presents their offspring and foals. The yard also offers horses for sale.
Equisapiens is a horse breeding business located in Heerde, Netherlands. They breed 1 or 2 foals each year from KWPN and German-bred mares, aiming to produce talented horses for dressage. Additionally, they offer coaching sessions that involve horses, enhancing team dynamics and personal development.
Stal de Borgelaar specializes in breeding Shetland ponies, focusing on type, movement, and good character. They offer ponies in various sizes and colors, and are affiliated with the Dutch Shetland Pony Studbook.
