Lessons, instruction and schooling — find a yard to learn the ropes or bring a horse on.
Valentine Morel teaches behaviour-based (ethological) riding in Quesnoy-sur-Deûle in the north of France. She offers private and group lessons, clinics and FFE exams. Her yard provides boarding and training livery for foals, young horses, re-education and advanced horses.
Free Spirit Therapeutic Riding Association is a registered charity in the Annapolis Valley operating from Rohan Wood Stables. It offers therapeutic riding lessons with certified instructors, equine supported wellness, school programs and summer camp. It is a CanTRA accredited centre serving over 120 individuals a year.
EZRanch at Gouy-lez-Piéton is run by Errol Delforge, who has taught riding for over forty years. It offers western, classical dressage and natural horsemanship lessons and courses. Horses can be started, schooled and kept on training livery, and Errol also teaches at clients' own yards. The site lists stallions and horses for sale.
Ecuries du Mont-Hubert is an FFE-affiliated riding school run by Francis and Laure at the Ferme de Courcelles in Pontoise-lès-Noyon. It offers rides, baby classes, flatwork and jumping lessons and competition outings. Owners can choose from livery, part-livery and loan-pony options, and the yard also schools sport horses.
Haras du Forest in Bondues combines a riding club with a restaurant. The club offers baby pony sessions for ages 3 to 6 and a pony club riding school for ages 6 to 12, with dressage, jumping, vaulting and equestrian games. It also has an owners' livery stable and runs holiday courses.
Ecurie Noémie Samijn is a family riding centre in Nomain. It offers riding lessons and courses for children, teenagers and adults of all levels. It also provides livery for ponies and horses, along with breeding, horse sales and competitions.
The Poney Club Centre Equestre d'Off is a riding school at Offekerque near Calais. It offers riding lessons for riders from age 2, including short sessions for young children and lesson packs for adults. It also gives lessons to owners whose horses are kept at the club.
Écuries des 3 Monts is a family riding centre and educational farm at Saint-Sylvestre-Cappel near Steenvoorde and Hazebrouck. It teaches riding to adults and children from age 4, with pony club, baby club and vaulting. It also offers several livery options with access to its riding facilities.
Ecuries Descamps is an FFE-affiliated equestrian centre in Nomain, northern France. It offers pony and horse lessons, summer riding camps and part-loans on its club ponies and horses. Livery is available, and owners can use the indoor schools and outdoor arenas. The centre hosts amateur, pony and young horse show jumping competitions.
Poney-club Jules Verne is a small pony club in the centre of Marck with about twenty ponies and horses. It offers riding with qualified instructors, rides, discovery sessions and birthday parties. During school holidays it runs a day centre where children learn about ponies and ride.
Les Écuries de la Lawe is a riding centre at La Couture near Béthune. Its state-qualified instructors teach riders of all levels, from first pony rides to FFE exams and competition. It offers livery for horses and ponies in stables or at grass, as well as part-livery, courses and birthday events.
Yara Balba Stables is an equestrian centre on a 56-acre farm at Mandalong in NSW. It runs training days and specialist clinics for riders with their own horses, including dressage, showjumping and working equitation. Facilities include a covered arena, a grassed showjump arena, a fitness track and a cross-country course. The property also offers art classes and accommodation.
Hunter Valley Equestrian Centre is a 100-acre property at Black Hill near Newcastle run by owner and coach Shaun France. It offers dressage training, private lessons and clinics, agistment and coach training. Facilities include an indoor floodlit dressage arena, which can also be hired, and rider accommodation.
Coast Kids Horse Riding and Party Ponies is based at Wyee on the NSW Central Coast. It offers riding lessons for all ages and abilities with experienced instructors. It also runs holiday programs, horsemanship courses on handling ponies on the ground, adopt-a-pony days and party ponies.
The Saddle Camp runs residential horse riding camps on a 168-acre property. Campers are given a horse or pony to care for and ride during their stay. Activities include trail rides, bareback riding, driving a horse and cart, games on horseback, dressage tests and show jumping. The site also lists day rides, riding lessons and parties.
Inner Circle Equestrian is an equestrian yard in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales aimed at amateur horse owners. It offers agistment, riding lessons, horse training and competition support. Its focus is supporting riders who keep horses alongside work and family life.
Moor Farm Stables is a riding school at Corley Moor between Coventry and Birmingham, run by Liz White and operating since 1969. It is approved by the British Horse Society, the Association of British Riding Schools and Riding for the Disabled, and is a Pony Club Centre. It has over 50 horses and ponies and offers group and private lessons, hacks, fun days, camps and career training.
Normandy West Horse is a western riding school near Sainte-Mère-Église in Normandy. It offers lessons in reining, trail, cutting, horsemanship and showmanship. It also provides livery with paddock turnout, and starting and schooling of young horses.
Aberconwy Equestrian Centre is a family-run riding school in Conwy, North Wales, established in 1993. Its instructors are BHS qualified and it is an ABRS approved riding centre and livery yard. It offers full and DIY livery with indoor and outdoor schools, and arena hire.
American Horse Passion is a riding centre in Baisieux near Mons, Belgium. It is a western and classical riding school approved by the LEWB. It also offers livery, training and breaking-in, and breeding.
Tipi Ranch is a western riding and mountain trail ranch at Montrabot in Normandy. Since 2016 it has offered active-stable livery with horses living in a herd. It runs a riding school with lessons and courses and breeds Quarter Horses.
Kinshaldy Riding Stables is in Tentsmuir Forest, Fife. It offers private and small group riding lessons in an outdoor arena, led pony rides and hacks through the forest for all abilities.
Les Chevaux du Causse near Lentillac du Causse in the Lot breeds Pintabian and DSA horses and stands a stallion. It offers pony walks and guided rides from one hour to longer trips. It also takes horses at livery with training and breaking.
Scholland Equestrian in Fife offers full, part and DIY livery, training, breaking in and schooling. Liveries can take lessons from resident instructors and visiting trainers. It has an all-weather floodlit arena and large stables, and lists clinics, a pony club, horses for sale and stallions at stud.
