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Cottonwood Creek Equestrian Center opened in 2003 and offers full-service boarding, overnight stays and layups. Two full-time trainers give natural horsemanship and western training and private and group lessons. It hosts clinics and events, and its covered arena is open to the public.
River's Equestrian offers riding lessons, individually or in small groups of up to three, for beginners to advanced riders. It teaches horsemanship skills such as leading, tying and grooming. It also offers basic horse training, tune-ups and behavior correction, and equine-assisted therapy.
Arriba Vista Ranch is a horse boarding and training facility on 220 acres in Sunol, California. Full-care boarding accommodates up to 100 horses, with indoor and outdoor dressage courts, a jumping arena and cross-country courses. In-barn trainers teach riding from basic horsemanship to high-level dressage and western.
Crater Hill Equestrian is a full-service equestrian center in Newcastle, California. It offers English and Western riding lessons, with a specialty in endurance riding and an endurance team. Pasture and stall boarding, training and summer camps are offered, and endurance horses are available for lease.
ICR Performance Horses is the reining training business of Sandy, based in Southern Oregon. She offers horse training and riding lessons focused on reining. She has over 35 years of experience including stallion management, breeding, foaling and showing, and was a multi-time NRHA finalist as a non-pro.
NorCal Trail Rides in Anderson, California offers guided trail rides along the Sacramento River and riding lessons, running since 2008. It provides horses, tack, helmets and a wrangler. Private English and Western lessons are offered, and horse boarding is available in stalls with runs.
Butte Creek Horse Club near Durham, California is a boarding facility with a lighted dressage arena, a jumping arena, a round pen and creek trails. It offers stalls with paddocks, individual pastures, English lessons and dressage clinics. It also breeds Hanoverian and Oldenburg horses. Horses for sale: young stock is offered for sale.
Madrone Hill Ranch in Gold Hill, Oregon offers horse training and riding lessons. Trainer Sonja Biada starts and trains horses and teaches riders, combining natural horsemanship with the basics of dressage. Beginners and riders of all ages and disciplines are welcome.
Timberline Farm in Bonanza, near Klamath Falls, Oregon, is a full-service boarding and training facility. It offers lessons in hunters, jumpers, equitation and dressage on school horses or riders' own horses. Trainer Makenzie Harvey focuses on hunter/jumpers. Monthly horsemanship lessons are included for students on prepaid lessons.
Tinyhoof Horsemanship offers private and group riding lessons for all ages at Blue Oak Stables in Cottonwood, Shasta County. Lessons combine classical riding principles, rider biomechanics and equine psychology. It also offers groundwork and horse training, a show team competing in Northern California, and leasing.
True North Eventing in Cottonwood, California teaches classical equitation with a dressage foundation for eventing and hunter/jumper riders. It offers private and semi-private lessons and coaches an eventing and show team. Horses can be trained and prepared for competition.
Vineyard Oak Dressage & Western Dressage Training is run by trainer and instructor Stacy Sutton, based at Maywood Stables in Medford, Oregon. It focuses on classical dressage, western dressage and working equitation. Stacy offers full training, lessons and competition coaching, with over 30 years of teaching and training.
Perfect Balance Riding Lessons in Grants Pass, Oregon offers lessons and training for show and pleasure riders. It specializes in ranch riding, groundwork, English and western pleasure, equitation, western dressage and trail training. Lessons are for intermediate and advanced riders aged 9 and up with their own horse or pony.
Korobi Stables in Fortuna, California offers guided trail rides in Humboldt County, riding lessons, horse training and boarding. Kim Korobi has decades of experience and specializes in training or retraining problem horses. Boarding includes daily feeding and stall cleaning.
Four Star Farm offers English riding instruction in eventing, dressage and show jumping at Valley Dressage and Sporthorse Center in Dixon, California. Owner and trainer Natalie Brady is a certified Level III eventing instructor who competed internationally. It offers lessons, leasing, coaching at shows, camps and training. Horses for sale: horses are offered for sale and lease.
Rhinestone Ranch in Bend, Oregon is home to Wright's Performance Horses LLC, run by Jarod and Trisha Wright. It offers riding lessons for all ages with a focus on all-around riding for breed and open shows, rodeo and cow horse events. It trains horses, coaches a show team and leases horses for showing.
Triple Moon Equestrian is a nonprofit horsemanship and equine assisted learning organization in Monroe, Washington. It offers riding lessons that include hands-on horse care and groundwork, working with rescued and surrendered horses. Its Red Barn Project lets youth lower lesson costs by working in the barn.
SS Ranch 77 offers horsemanship lessons for all ages, including English, Western and Australian riding. Lessons are non-competition and cover groundwork, riding, and tacking, starting with a safe introduction to horses. The ranch also provides mobile horse training, with a consultation for the horse. Lessons are booked after a mandatory free ranch tour.
Chaparral Co. offers horse activities at its ranch in Sunol, California, and has brought horse activities to the Bay Area since 2009. It offers Western and English riding lessons, trail rides and a four-week horsemanship class. Parent and child pony sessions are available for ages 2 to 5.
All Seasons Horse Riding offers riding lessons in Pleasanton, California, founded by Julie Payne in 2013. It teaches youth and adults, from first-time riders up, with single lessons and three-, six- and twelve-month memberships. It is a member of the Certified Horsemanship Association.
Triple Bar Stables is a hunter/jumper and equitation show barn in San Martin, California, run by head trainer Corrie Busalacchi. It offers group lessons on school horses, competition packages, full training of horses and partial leases. Junior and adult amateur riders compete on the show circuit.
Red Gate Farm is a hunter/jumper training barn run by owner and head trainer Jamie Smith, with assistant trainer Sammie Smith. Its training programs develop hunter/jumper riders at all levels. The barn has operated for over 25 years.
Sage Meadows is a private riding school in Redmond, Washington. It offers one-hour private lessons in huntseat, jumping, western, dressage and showmanship. Students also learn horse handling, grooming, tacking and horse care, and can compete at local shows.
Dragonfire Farm is a family-run sport horse and eventing farm established in 1977. It offers riding lessons for all ages through The Academy @ Dragonfire, plus horsemanship classes and competition coaching. Its breeding program has produced champions in several disciplines, and it helps clients with their own breeding programs. Horses for sale: horses bred at the farm are offered for sale.
