Lessons, instruction and schooling — find a yard to learn the ropes or bring a horse on.
Foothills Ranch in Mayer, Arizona, is run by Phyllis and Wes Holmes. It offers guided trail rides, lessons, leasing and boarding, and provides horse sales assistance for buyers and sellers. A reined cow horse trainer works from the ranch.
Crystal Springs Ranch & Saddlery, founded by Kathy Weiss, has equestrian facilities in Carbondale, Colorado and Thermal, California. It offers pasture and paddock boarding, barn leasing, riding lessons, horse training and tack services.
Knob Hill Ranch is a horse ranch in California's high desert near Joshua Tree. It offers horseback rides through Joshua Tree National Park and overnight stays at the ranch.
Lotus Sport Horses at Five Oak Farms in Orangevale, California runs a boutique hunter, jumper and equitation training program. It offers full and partial training, lessons, training rides for haul-in clients, lease options and show support.
Rivendell Ranch at Garden Valley in California breeds Foundation Appaloosas with an emphasis on endurance and sport horse type. The stallion MHS Honors theFallen stands at stud for AI only at 500 dollars plus collection and shipping, and horses are occasionally offered for sale. Dressage-based riding lessons are available at 60 dollars an hour.
Seaboldt Performance Horses is a 13-acre horse training facility in Lone Jack, Missouri with an 11-stall barn and a 60 by 100 indoor arena. It offers colt starting, horse training, riding lessons and a show team. Run by PJ and Sabrina Seaboldt, it has a sales page.
La Riata Ranch is a horse training and horsemanship facility run by international dressage rider and trainer Missy Fladland. It offers colt starting, full training, coaching and showing in high-performance dressage and ranch versatility. The program draws on teachers such as Tom Dorrance and Ray Hunt.
Black Clover Ranch in northwest Missouri offers horse training, colt starting and riding lessons with trainer Jason Stufflebean. It also runs equine photography and design services, including sale horse photography and stallion promotion, and a merchandise shop. Its menu promotes the AQHA stallion Buckin Foolish.
Clanton Performance Horses in Peculiar, Missouri is a training, lessons and sales barn founded in 2009 by Alan Clanton, who has started over 500 horses. It offers performance training, stall and pasture board, riding lessons and a show schedule. It offers sale horses in western, English, hunter and working western disciplines. Horses for sale.
Osage Oaks Arena and Stables in Buckner, Missouri is a family-run equestrian facility established in 1989 and home to Kirkland Performance Horses. Trainer Amy Kirkland trains and shows Western and Hunt Seat horses on AQHA, PtHA and regional circuits. It offers lessons and boarding, and lists horses for sale or lease.
Copper Moon Riding Academy, formerly Copper Moon Ranch, teaches Western riding in Dallas Center-Grimes, Iowa. It runs a Horsemanship Academy with small-group lessons following CHA Western standards, plus camps and parties. It does not offer boarding, rentals or trail rides.
Longmeadow Rescue Ranch is the Humane Society of Missouri's 165-acre rescue and rehabilitation centre for abused and neglected horses and other farm animals. It adopts out horses and runs riding lessons for adopters and others. It is open to the public on set days and is a partner of the Right Horse Initiative.
Sugar Creek Ranch in Fenton, Missouri is a horse boarding facility with three boarding barns, one indoor and two outdoor lighted arenas, and wooded trails. It has a caretaker on site around the clock, and also offers riding lessons and training. Board includes hay and grain twice a day.
Ascada Arabians near Nashville, Tennessee is an Arabian horse training barn run by trainer David Cooprider. It offers one-on-one and small-group lessons and coaching, plus a show team that competes locally through regionals and nationals. The training approach stresses communication without fear or intimidation.
Rising Star Ranch in Pataskala, Ohio is a full-service horse boarding and training facility about 20 minutes from Columbus. It has professional barn managers and trainers, and offers riding lessons. The owners live on site and the barn serves mostly recreational riders with show opportunities.
Havens Hope Ranch and Stables in Greenwood, Indiana offers equine assisted psychotherapy using the Eagala method with licensed therapists and an equine specialist. It also runs horseback riding lessons, summer camps and parties. Programs include work with military and veteran families.
Crazy Horse Ranch is a family-owned ranch in Morongo Valley, California, run by Jacklyn Simmons. It offers private trail rides, private lessons, horse boarding, natural horsemanship and a horse rescue center.
Two Bayz Ranch is a small equestrian facility in Winchester, California, with trainers of 15+ years of experience. It offers English and western lessons for all ages and levels, trail rides, camps and a show team.
Rising Ash Ranch is a family-operated facility in Fullerton, California. Its programs include private horse riding lessons from beginner to advanced level.
Thornton Quarter Horses provides Western horse training and rider lessons in Orange County, California, led by trainer Brian Thornton. Disciplines include reining, cow horse, ranch versatility and team sorting. They also assist with horse sales, from purchasing to selling.
LT Quarter Horses is a reining horse barn run by Luis Torres. It offers beginner to advanced lessons, derby and futurity prospect training, and finished show horses for sale. It also lists breeding, foaling and stallion standing.
Healing Pastures at C Horse Ranch in Auburn, California is a non-profit that rescues animals and runs equine-assisted programs. It offers English and Western riding lessons, parties, camps and tours, and talk and animal therapy with a licensed therapist.
Gurtner Sportpferde GmbH at Köniz near Bern is run by Marco Gurtner, who offers private and paired riding lessons, schooling of horses, and competition coaching. Lessons are held at the Eldorado Köniz facility or at other locations on request.
Élevage de Belmont at Boudry near Neuchâtel breeds Pure Spanish Breed (Andalusian) horses and runs a riding school run by Caroline Dolder. Its site is available in French, German and English and was last updated in 2016.
