Lessons, instruction and schooling — find a yard to learn the ropes or bring a horse on.
St Mary's Riding Centre is the only horse riding establishment on the Isles of Scilly. It is licensed and British Horse Society approved. It offers rides on coastal bridleways and beaches, and lead rein rides with mini lessons for children.
Eccleston Equestrian Centre in Leyland, Lancashire was established in 1977. It offers riding tuition and training from beginner to advanced, BHS training, livery, facility hire, birthday parties and a Pony Club. It also runs a Changing Lives Through Horses programme.
Braeden Pony Trekking is a family yard in the Lancashire countryside near Beacon Fell with over 20 ponies. It offers accompanied treks for skilled and beginner riders. Private and group riding lessons are also available.
Wrea Green Equitation Centre near Preston was established in 1981. It offers riding instruction for riders aged 3 upwards, including disabled riders, with an indoor school and classrooms. It runs a Pony Club and is a recognised training and examination centre for the equine industry.
Bilsdale Riding Centre near Helmsley offers rides on the North York Moors. It runs regular rides, activity days, two-day activity breaks and children's and adult riding holidays. It was founded by the Caines family in 1975.
Sydney Showjumping at Mount Hunter, NSW is run by Stefanie Cass, an accredited EA coach specialising in showjumping. She coaches riders of all levels from beginners to competitors and trains horses. Sessions are booked online.
Views Equestrian in Clarence Town, NSW offers coaching and lessons with an EA Level 1 coach. It also provides horse training and has horses for sale.
Cottagers Plot Equestrian Centre is a riding school in Laceby near Grimsby. It offers one to one and group lessons six days a week for beginners to advanced riders, including show jumping, dressage and eventing. Riding has been taught there for over twenty years.
Heavenly Rose Equestrian is a family-friendly hunter/jumper barn in Augusta, New Jersey. It offers private and group lessons from beginner to advanced for ages 6 and up, showing and boarding. It specialises in hunter/jumpers, equitation and off-track Thoroughbreds.
Equitable Riding Academy is at Springfield Farm near Dorking. It offers private, semi-private and group riding lessons, lessons for under-10s, stable management clubs and pony days. The 20-acre site has an Olympic-sized training school and an all-weather gallop track.
Bowlers Riding School in Formby, Merseyside has taught riding since 1941. It offers group and private lessons from age 3, holiday activities, parties, Pony Club and RDA. It has around 40 horses, some on livery, an indoor school and a floodlit outdoor school.
McNab Riding School teaches basic horsemanship and riding to all ages. It offers lesson packages from beginners to competition riders in dressage, jumping and games, a Saturday membership program, camps and birthday parties. It has an indoor riding facility, an outdoor sand ring and trails.
SFR Equestrian is a hunter/jumper facility on 40 acres in North Gower near Ottawa. Led by head coach Maeve Rowe, it offers riding academy lessons for ages 7 and up, boarding and leasing, training and competing, and day camps. It also offers equine-assisted learning and trail rides.
Ashdown Riding is a riding school and hacking centre on Lower Misbourne Farm in the Ashdown Forest. It has taught riders for over 40 years. It offers lessons for ages 4 and up from beginner to advanced, including side saddle, and hacks on the forest.
Ranch des Baous is a five-hectare equestrian centre near Tourrettes-sur-Loup in the Pré-Alpes d'Azur. It offers lessons for all levels in small groups, including dressage, show jumping, cross country and groundwork, and treks from the property. It offers paddock livery with shelters and hay. A wooden cabin for two can also be rented.
Faith Training Center is a horse boarding and training stable 20 minutes south of South Bend, Indiana. It offers boarding with daily feeding, stall care and turnout, plus horse training, riding lessons, clinics and sales and leases. The owners live on site.
Meg Dunne Training is a hunter/jumper barn in Tualatin near Portland, Oregon. It offers private and group lessons for all levels, a show team competing at rated shows, and full boarding with an indoor arena and grass turnout. It also runs its own shows, camps, pony parties and sales.
Poney-club Arc-en-ciel is a non-profit pony club in Thuillies, Belgium. It offers riding lessons for children aged 6 to 14 and adults, equimotricity sessions and courses, taught by Adeps-certified instructors.
Moray RDA is a Riding for the Disabled group meeting at Cranloch Riding Centre outside Elgin. Young people and adults with individual needs learn to ride and care for ponies in sessions run by trained RDA coaches.
Harmony N Horsemanship in the Adelaide Hills and Barossa region is run by Justin and Christina. It offers riding lessons for all levels, horse training, working equitation and clinics.
Breach Lane Equestrian is a livery yard and training centre in Wiltshire. It offers livery services, lessons with instructor Mallory, and clinics and camps.
Wicklow Equestrian Centre is on 55 acres of woodland near Roundwood in the Wicklow Mountains. It offers lessons for adults and children, a saddle club, pony camps, BHS training and livery. Activities include forest jumping, show jumping, trekking and dressage.
Top Flight Equestrian is an equestrian shop based at Warrington Riding School near Kilkenny. It stocks riding equipment, clothing and footwear from brands such as Samshield, Ariat, Pikeur and Kingsland. The riding school is a working equestrian centre.
Ladestown Riding Stables near Mullingar, Co. Westmeath, is a family run AIRE approved riding school. It offers lessons for beginners and intermediate riders and horse and pony trekking seven days a week. It also runs a pony camp.
