Lessons, instruction and schooling — find a yard to learn the ropes or bring a horse on.
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.
Burnt Feather Farms is a 120-acre farm in Mexico, New York. It specialises in horse boarding, lessons, sales and training across disciplines from dressage and western riding to colt starting and driving. It also attends horse shows.
Country Lane Farm is a hunter jumper training facility in Ladner, British Columbia. It runs show stables with boarding, a riding school with lessons, camps and a rider levels programme, and leasing and sales. It also hosts shows including a winter show series.
Whitchurch Equestrian is a riding school and summer day camp on 10 acres east of Newmarket, Ontario. It offers English riding lessons for children, teens and adults for recreation or showing. Open houses let visitors meet the horses and watch a lesson.
Stony Pine Farm is a 37-acre farm in New Durham, New Hampshire with a seven-stall barn. It offers beginner and intermediate private riding lessons, kids and adult camps, and horse boarding. The trainer, Michaela, also starts and restarts horses.
Sunnydale Stables is a family-owned horse farm in North Bay, Ontario. It offers riding lessons for all ages and levels, camps, trail rides and parties. Community programmes give more families hands-on time with horses.
Hillside Meadows Equestrian Center is a training and boarding facility on 70 acres in Grafton, Massachusetts. It offers hunter/jumper, reining and horsemanship programmes for all levels. The facility hosts rated and schooling shows and keeps a fleet of school horses.
Evergreen Stables Equestrian Center is a family-run teaching stable in Scottsville, New York. It offers weekly Western horsemanship and ranch-style riding lessons, mainly for adults and riders aged nine and older. Boarding is also available.
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.
Aldie Equestrian Center in Aldie, Virginia is a full service facility offering boarding, training and lessons. It welcomes hunters, jumpers, dressage and eventing. Facilities include indoor and outdoor rings, cross country jumps, stall and field board, and turnout options.
Black Ridge Farm in Middletown, New York offers boarding, lessons and training, showing and camp programmes. Head trainer Brittany Cooper and assistant trainer Susan O'Driscoll coach riders in hunters, jumpers and equitation. Lesson horses and horses for sale or lease are listed.
Walnut Grove Farm is owned by trainer Beth Walkowicz near Buffalo, New York. It offers riding lessons and horse training, including starting horses off the track. The farm hosts boarders and students in eventing, dressage and hunters, as well as a Pony Club and IEA teams.
Pine Haven Stables in Colborne, Ontario offers riding lessons, boarding and training, psychotherapy sessions and summer camps. Boarders have access to indoor and outdoor arenas, hacking trails and a half-mile racetrack. One lesson a month is included with boarding packages.
Willow Grove Stables is an equestrian facility in Foothills, Alberta specialising in hunter, jumper, equitation and three-day eventing. It offers riding lessons, training, coaching and boarding, plus summer camps and horses for sale. It is also a training facility for developing coaches.
Summer Breeze Stables in Milton, Pennsylvania offers horse riding lessons, summer riding camps and two annual horse shows. It provides year-round boarding and training with year-round arenas. Staff include instructors and trainers.
Lake House Stables is a hunter jumper equestrian facility on over 110 acres in Durham Region, Ontario. It offers boarding, a riding lesson academy, camps, and horses for sale, lease and part board. Showing on the Trillium and A circuits, clipping and trailering are also offered.
Vermont Icelandic Horse Farm in the Mad River Valley offers trail rides and multi-day riding treks on Icelandic horses. It also offers horse sales, training and boarding, lessons, and new and used tack. Lodging is available alongside the riding.
Hitching Post Farm sits on 75 acres in South Royalton, Vermont. It offers boarding, training, lessons and eventing for riders of all levels. The farm hosts a USEA horse trial, schooling horse trials and event-oriented summer camps. Private and group lessons are available year round on lesson horses or the rider's own horse.
Lazy Acres Equines is a training and lesson facility in Brandon, Vermont. It specialises in foundation horse training using traditional and natural techniques. It teaches riders from beginners to experienced students and lists horses for sale and lease.
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.
Reitsport Urbani is a riding facility in St. Stefan, Austria, open Monday to Saturday all year. Its riding school teaches beginners and competition riders, with lunge lessons, group lessons and private lessons. It regularly runs courses and exams for the Reiterpass, Reiternadel and riding licence. The yard also schools young horses and offers boarding for privately owned horses.
Haflingerhof Halbwachs is a family-run horse yard in Kitzeck, Austria, operated as a horse club. It offers riding lessons for children and adults, rider camps with hacks and meals, half-day trail rides and full activity days. Children can also celebrate birthdays with the horses. The yard keeps ponies, Haflingers, warmbloods and a Noriker, and the family has worked with horses since 1990.
Reitschule Hoffmann was opened by Ludwig Hoffmann in 1973 in Fernitz near Graz, and the Reitclub Auhof-Fernitz followed in 1975. The riding school teaches beginners to advanced riders in groups on school horses suited to all ages and levels. Horse owners can keep their horses at livery, with schooling, lessons and competition coaching in dressage and jumping. The facility hosts dressage shows and championships in Styria.
