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King Performance Horses in Brea, California, is a Western performance training facility specializing in reining and ranch riding, led by head trainer Joline King-Pebley. It offers private and group lessons and training, and the site has a sale horses page.
Pacific Sporthorses is a hunter/jumper training program in the San Diego area led by owner and head trainer Emma King, who holds a degree in Equestrian Sport Science. It offers lessons and professional training rides with personalized schedules.
PB Performance Horses is an Orange County, California, riding and barrel racing program run by trainer Payton Bladow. It offers beginner to advanced lessons, horse training and consignment, and camps.
Promises Ranch LLC is a 21-acre training and breeding facility in Lompoc, California, specializing in Arabian and Half-Arabian show horses. It offers lessons, leasing, training, retirement and lay-up care, and lists stallions, geldings and horses for sale.
Cheyenne Arabians is a horse ranch in San Diego County offering pony rides, horse-themed birthday parties, riding lessons, training and pasture and corral boarding. The site has horses for sale and breeding stallions pages.
Rockin' L&D Ranch Equine Education Services in Southern California provides riding lessons taught by Certified Horsemanship Association instructors, therapy and programs for veterans. It retrains and rehabilitates horses to help people.
Green Acres Ranch in Temecula, California, has been owned by the Rich family since 1957 and began as a ranch for breeding, training and showing Arabians. It is now open to all breeds and offers boarding, training, riding lessons, youth horse camp and therapeutic riding.
Barking Elf Ranch in Elfin Forest, California, is a riding school teaching beginning through advanced English riding, jumping and horse care in small classes. It also runs summer horse camps and offers boarding.
Iron Oak Canyon Ranch is an equestrian boarding facility in Spring Valley, California, with 24 by 24 and 24 by 48 corrals, lit arenas and trail access to a national wildlife refuge. It offers ranch-care and self-care boarding, lessons, and Girl Scout programs.
Wild Wind Ranch Oak Hills is a community ranch in Oak Hills, California, run as a nonprofit. Its main offering is horseback riding lessons for riders from age 2 and for adults, booked by appointment. The ranch also runs therapeutic riding, homeschool riding programs, trail rides, horse summer camps and pony parties. Visitors can also meet and feed the ranch animals at no cost.
Palomas de Rancho Jiménez in the San Gabriel Valley, California teaches horseback riding lessons for 50 dollars an hour, including beginner riding, escaramuza charra training and adaptive riding for children with special needs. The site is in English and Spanish.
Lazy T Ranch at Leona Valley, California has been owned by the Tremblay family at the same site for over 37 years. It offers horse boarding with two arenas and over 80 miles of trails, riding lessons, horse sales and leasing, and a western town for parties, weddings and filming.
Shamrock T Ranch at Agua Dulce, California is a small family barn run by Craig and Cindy Tognazzini, known as The Backyard Barrel Trainer. It offers boarding in box stalls, pipe stalls and pasture with direct access to Pacific Crest Trails, riding lessons, rental horses and a Horses For Sale/Lease page.
5 Bell Ranch LLC is a family-run horse operation northeast of Denver run by Jason and Melissa Bell, built on performance pedigrees. It offers full-care training and lessons, and its site has Sale Horses, Foals and Resident Stallion pages. Horses for sale.
Whispering Willows Ranch, near Steamboat Springs, Colorado, is a working ranch focused on high-level working cow horses. It offers full-care boarding with indoor and outdoor arenas, training programs, breeding, lessons and clinics, alongside beef sales and hay production.
Spirit Ranch JSP in Parker, Colorado offers equine facilitated learning, equine grief facilitation, wellness sessions and youth beginner Western riding lessons. Founder Pam Sippel is certified through the HERD Institute after a 38-year career in education.
DEKO Ranch in Hudson, Colorado, formerly Clappsaddle Farms, is a full-service horse boarding facility with a large roping arena, a round pen, an indoor arena and creek-side acreage. It also offers horse training and riding lessons, plus weddings and glamping accommodation.
Graceful Oaks Youth Ranch in Fort Lupton, Colorado is a non-profit youth ranch founded in 2015 that offers animal-assisted education. It runs weekly 50-minute horsemanship and riding lessons, camps and empowerment sessions with horses and other animals.
Brooke Lyn's Minis at Sleepy Hollow Ranch in Boulder, Colorado offers miniature horseback riding lessons for children aged 1 to 6, miniature horse cart driving, mini camps and parties. Retired miniature show horses with AMHA and AMHR titles serve as the lesson horses.
Cowley Performance Horses is a horse training operation in Temecula, California, run by Craig and Rosie Cowley at Tucalota Creek Ranch. It offers full-time and part-time training, lessons, 90-day colt starting, and weekly group lessons, clinics and shows.
Oceanview Ranch Horses is the Western riding program at Portuguese Bend Riding Club in Rancho Palos Verdes, California. It offers private and group lessons, leasing, training and showing, with ranch riding and gymkhana instruction.
Kelly Saldivar Performance Horses offers horseback riding lessons for all levels and ages, with lesson horses available. Classes cover western pleasure, horsemanship, trail riding and trail obstacles, and there is a training program for owners' horses.
Silver Lining Ranch is a horse training and riding center in Agoura Hills, California, run by professional trainer and instructor Angie LoCascio. It offers western riding lessons, horse training, leasing and horse sales.
Rancho Sea Air is an ocean-front riding school in Malibu, California, founded in 1941 by Egon Merz. It offers lessons from ages one to adult, camps, birthday parties, events and boarding.
