Lessons, instruction and schooling — find a yard to learn the ropes or bring a horse on.
Stal Donkers is a training stable in Moergestel run by Paul Donkers. It trains young and advanced show jumping horses up to the highest attainable level. Show jumping lessons are offered alongside the training, and young show jumpers are continuously available for sale. Paul Donkers also mediates in the international horse trade.
Gestüt Hafnersholt is an Icelandic horse farm in the Allgäu run by Silvia Ochsenreiter-Egli. Young horses are reared on pasture in herds separated by sex, and the farm offers boarding for riding horses in open stables. The farm also provides riding lessons, training (Beritt), breeding and sales of horses. A reitshop is part of the farm's offering.
Grusiloch Ranch is a Reiterhof in Kleines Wiesental, run by Hannelore and Georg Sturm alongside a farm and forestry business. It offers Western riding lessons, guided trail rides from half-day to multi-day, and riding holidays for children. The ranch also runs a Wanderreitstation for up to eight people, offers pony walks and hosts children's birthday parties. A Pferdepension (horse boarding) section is listed on the site. The home page notes that regular riding lessons are no longer offered.
Gestütshof Brendlberg is a riding farm in Ruhpolding in the Chiemgau. It offers riding lessons, lunge lessons and pony riding for children and adults. Riding holidays and intensive courses are also offered, along with a holiday apartment on the property. The farm also offers horse training and is home to a riding club (RPV).
Zuchthof Popp is a family farm where horses have been bred and kept for several generations. The farm offers breeding mare keeping and foal rearing. It also provides starting and further training of young horses, and keeps riding horses and retirement horses. Riding instruction is provided by the farm's riding instructors, covering levels from beginner to advanced dressage and show jumping.
Thanksgiving Rodeo School is an annual two-day rodeo school held at the Stace Smith Ranch near Athens, Texas. It teaches bareback and saddle bronc riding, including chute procedure, arena etiquette and equipment setup. Students of all ages and skill levels, from beginners to college rodeo riders, get on horses under instructors who teach the technique for getting on, riding and getting off safely. Tuition covers the school and food, and proceeds benefit the Justin Boots Cowboy Crisis Fund, which supports injured rodeo athletes.
Seegartenhof Sportpferde is a sport horse farm in Königsbronn run by the Dingler family. The owner is a breeder who looks after the young stock and broodmares and manages the paddocks and feeding. Horses are trained and ridden in jumping, dressage, gymnastics and cross-country work. The team offers jumping lessons and accompanies students and horses to competitions.
Gestüt Sonnenhof is a horse farm in Adlkofen near Landshut, run by Christl Zieglmaier. It offers riding lessons for beginners, returning riders and advanced riders, including individual and group lessons. The yard also provides training (Beritt), courses and weekend clinics. Horses are kept on boarding terms, including in a small open barn with paddock and pasture time.
Lunkeshof is a breeding and show stable run by the Lunkes family. It offers riding and jumping lessons, including lessons for riders who bring their own horse. The yard provides training for riders up to tournament level and schooling of owners' horses. It also offers boarding with shelter options for horses.
Connemara-Gestüt Isweide is a horse farm in Haideck that breeds Connemara ponies. Its own mares, foals, geldings and young stallions live in herds on the property. The farm also keeps boarding horses (Pensions-Stall) in the same herds. Riding paths, a floodlit riding arena and an all-weather round pen are available for training. The website also lists riding lessons, pony riding and courses.
Ponyhof Erdbach is a riding school on a pony farm in Erdbach near Creglingen. Regular riding lessons are held as 90-minute "Ponyzeit" sessions that combine riding, pony care and theory. The farm also offers holiday courses, pony walks and pony riding for children, and birthday parties. It runs Fjord horse breeding alongside the riding school.
Gestüt Rapp is a horse breeding farm that has bred riding horses since 1985, with its main focus on dressage horses. The farm offers quality foals and some horses for sale. It also provides riding lessons up to the Dressur Kl. S level. The farm keeps a stallion on site and presents young horses at riding horse and breeding mare evaluations.
Lucky-Stable-Ranch is a horse farm near Kronach in Bavaria with around thirty horses and ponies. It focuses on horse breeding and offers full-board livery for horses. Riding lessons and courses are available for children, youths and adults, from first contact with ponies to advanced riders. The farm also offers therapeutic riding for people with special needs, run together with its supporting association. Holiday flats and a group dormitory for children's riding holidays are available on the farm.
Sportpferde Hippe offers individual and group riding lessons in dressage and show jumping for beginners through advanced riders. The business provides mobile training and schooling of horses, including correction work through to tournament presentation. It also offers riding badges and courses for beginners and advanced riders. Support with buying and selling horses is available through its network in equestrian sport.
The Ländlicher Zucht- und Reitverein Bergische Höhen was founded in 1968 by local horse breeders and riders and has about 400 members. The club runs a riding facility owned by its members, with riding lessons for beginners, advanced riders and competition riders. Its offering includes dressage, show jumping, vaulting, lunging lessons and holiday riding courses for children and young people. The club is a member of the Pferdesportverband Rheinland.
Reitsportanlage Gut Ringhofen is an equestrian facility near Erfurt in Thuringia. It offers riding lessons for children and for advanced riders, including longeing, group lessons and individual instruction. Horses are kept in boxes and an open stable with paddocks and pastures. Training for advanced riders, from jumping to dressage up to Klasse S, is provided together with external riding trainers.
West Ridge Ranch offers western riding, with training and courses for beginners and riders changing to western. The ranch also runs trail rides, multi-day rides and cattle drives. It offers riding holidays and horse boarding. The business is run by Achim Häßler near Altenberga.
Sportpferde Helbra is a family-run yard in the Mansfelder Land near Eisleben that started as a private horse keeping operation in 2000. It offers boarding in boxes and open stables, with daily herd pasture time and hay grown on its own meadows. The yard provides individual riding lessons and horse training carried out by a master horse-keeper and his team, and it breeds horses. A riding club for beginners and ambitious riders is attached to the yard.
Islandpferdehof Ickelsbach is an equestrian yard specialising in Icelandic horses. It offers riding lessons and courses, along with a riding school for people wanting to improve their riding skills. The yard also provides boarding for Icelandic horses and training and schooling (Beritt) of Icelandic horses. The farm is located on the edge of Landwehrhagen, near Kassel, with direct access to riding trails.
Trappistenhof is an Icelandic horse farm in Bad Driburg. It offers group boarding in a pension stable, with an oval track, a dressage arena and riding terrain nearby. The riding school offers lessons with school horses or the rider's own horse, in groups or individually, for beginners and competition riders. The farm also offers training of horses and rearing of young horses.
Spiel und Spaß mit dem Pferd offers courses for children aged 5 to 10 that use play and contact with horses, based on special-needs educational approaches. The courses consist of 10 sessions with individual attention and aim to support social skills, motor skills, balance and self-confidence. The business is run by a state-certified educator and therapist for human-animal encounters, with a focus on therapeutic riding. It works with 10 ponies and 2 donkeys on a farm in Brieselang. Further offers include individual and group lessons, pony handling at events, children's birthday parties on the farm and pony visits to care facilities.
Reitzentrum Gestüt Moorhof offers riding instruction and horse training under trainer Marius Schneider. Lessons cover classical riding, ground work and horsemanship for riders of all levels, and the yard works with many horse breeds. Riders can also take online lessons through the Moorhof Club, and the business runs seminars and events. The site describes the yard as a school for classical riding art.
Reit-, Zucht- und Fahrverein EPE e.V. is a riding club offering riding, carriage driving and vaulting. Members can take lessons in dressage, show jumping, driving and vaulting, with trainers and riding instructors. The club organises group rides, including an autumn ride with carriages, and its members take part in riding and driving tournaments. The club is based in the Epe area.
Reiterhof Quado in Lübars, run by the Qualitz-Domaradzki family, is a horse yard with a boarding stable for private horses. Boarding includes single boxes, daily turnout on pasture or paddock, and hay and oats three times a day. The yard also runs a riding school with its own school horses and qualified riding instructors. Vaulting courses for children are part of the lessons, and the yard offers training work (Beritt) for horses.
