Lessons, instruction and schooling — find a yard to learn the ropes or bring a horse on.
Haras des Anges at Carnières near Cambrai is a riding club welcoming riders all year, with horse and pony lessons from age three, rides and many equestrian disciplines. It runs competitions and also takes in horses and ponies for boarding.
Écurie Baie Jump at Grand-Laviers, at the gateway to the Baie de Somme, is an owners' stable that offers lessons, coaching and competition outings. Facilities, services and prices are listed on the site, and a gite called Le Very Best is on the property.
Haras du Coussoul at Mouriès in the Alpilles has bred Lusitano and Lusitano-cross sport horses since 1987, founded by Catherine and Sauveur Vaisse. It sells horses, presents stallions and broodmares, and offers dressage courses, tailored boarding, classical lessons, rides and Crau hay. It also rents a farmhouse and rooms.
Haras Mansolein is a breeding farm at Fontaine-lès-Luxeuil in Haute-Saône in north-eastern France. It breeds dressage and showjumping horses, including offspring of its thoroughbred mares, and has a dressage instructor. The website has pages for horses for sale, stallion choice and foals.
Haras des Templiers at Maxou in the Lot is a riding centre and horse breeding farm offering lessons with limited rider numbers, livery and breeding lines. It also lists ponies for sale.
GAEC de l'Evasion Montagnarde, also known as Elevage de Besse, is a family farm at Bourg-d'Oisans in the Isere that breeds Merens horses and Limousin cattle. It offers mountain horse rides and treks with its Merens horses and sells beef directly.
Haras de Croix d'Hins at Marcheprime in the Gironde is a riding centre teaching all levels in eventing, dressage, show jumping, driving and pony games, with trail rides. It also offers livery in an owners' stable, organises competitions and holds federation quality labels.
Écurie HDS, Haras des Sources, at Vif near Grenoble is an owners' stable offering livery for owners and half-livery riders, horse work, individual and group lessons, intensive courses, competition preparation, personal coaching, backing and a breeding section.
Haras Feu Soleil at Coutras in the Gironde has run since 2014, offering lessons for all levels on adapted horses and ponies, pony rides, various livery options and a commerce section. Contact is by text message only because the owner is hard of hearing.
Haras de Marigny is a farm near Beaune in Burgundy run by Marie and Gerard Konczewski. It offers an owners stable, a riding school and pony club, stopover stabling for horses in transit, breeding with mares and foals, and guest rooms. The site has a horses for sale page.
Haras de la Jonchere is a riding centre in Lesigny, Seine-et-Marne, in a 14 hectare wooded park with two arenas, two indoor schools and a club house. It has a horse club, a pony club and Shetland section, livery in paddocks and boxes, competitions, equicoaching and ethology.
Haras des Peupliers is an owners stable, riding centre and pony club in Brie-Comte-Robert, 25 km from Paris. It offers livery, development, competition and trail rides, with lessons for all levels from qualified instructors.
Haras de Beautheil-Saints is a riding centre 10 minutes from Coulommiers that welcomes resident and visiting riders of all levels in a relaxed family atmosphere. It offers group lessons, courses, competitions, and equine therapy and animal-assisted mediation.
Haras des Chaises is an equestrian club and pony club in Chalautre-la-Grande, Seine-et-Marne, between Provins and Nogent-sur-Seine. It was created in 2018 by instructor Maud Van Beneden and has an indoor school with 10 boxes, an arena, and an owners stable.
Haras Boreal, Ecuries Laura Saine, is an owners stable and riding club in Fontenay-Tresigny, Seine-et-Marne. It offers classic and paddock livery with lessons included and a riding club open from a young age.
Haras de Maison Blanche is a riding centre in Lesigny, Seine-et-Marne, in a fenced 18 hectare park 22 km from Paris. It has a pony club, a riding centre, 11 horses and 24 ponies, an owners section, equine therapy and classified ads, and is affiliated with the French Equestrian Federation.
Ecuries ID Sport, also Elevage du Talion, is a full-service equestrian centre in Maisons-Laffitte offering breeding, livery, half-livery, training and commercial development of horses, plus lessons and licences. The site has a development and sales section.
Haras du Lieutel is a small family stable in a 9 hectare park in Galluis, 30 minutes west of Paris at the edge of the Rambouillet forest. It welcomes riders of all levels and owners horses, with box livery and a pony club and equicoaching.
Haras de Pharos is an equestrian centre in Bazemont in the Yvelines with meadows, woodland, arenas, an indoor school and gallop tracks. It offers lessons for all levels, a pony club, livery and half-livery from 540 euros a month, breeding and the sale of horses, with breeding references on the site.
Ecurie du Castet is an owner-run horse yard in the forest near Saint Laurent Médoc, open all year. It offers private and group riding lessons with a coach, and a professional show-jumping rider who rides and schools horses for clients. The yard takes horses to eventing, show-jumping and dressage competitions and offers rides in the forest or on the beach. Livery is available as full board, box, pasture and box, or pasture only, plus retirement, foaling and convalescence care.
Haras des K at Cereste in the Luberon is a riding centre and breeding yard on 15 hectares with lessons on horses and ponies, trail rides, owners' livery for all types of equines, competition and a horses for sale page. The owners present themselves as breeders and enthusiasts.
Ferme de la Corne Doree is a farm at Saint-Paul-en-Jarez in the Loire that has diversified into a riding centre, welcoming children and adults with an instructor, an arena and horses and ponies. The club is federation-affiliated and has competitions and a horse and rider section.
Le Grand Verger is a riding centre and pony club in the Creuse, near Ajain, in a green setting. It offers a mini pony club, lessons, courses and competitions and is affiliated to the French equestrian federation.
Haras Le Colombier is an equestrian property in central France, set on more than 50 hectares of grazing land. It offers training, competition coaching and riding courses, alongside recovery and rehabilitation for horses after injury. Pastures are available for breeding mares and retired horses, with veterinary follow-up for foaling mares. The business also buys and sells horses.
