Lessons, instruction and schooling — find a yard to learn the ropes or bring a horse on.
Élevage du Pied d'Argent in Les Bordes, Burgundy breeds, produces and sells Pura Raza Española horses. It offers dressage lessons with a state-qualified instructor, horse trading and boarding in boxes or at pasture. It competes in dressage and breeding shows.
Sunnybank Equestrian Centre near Caerphilly, South Wales is a BHS approved equestrian centre, riding school and livery yard. Its indoor arena hosts showjumping, dressage, showing and indoor eventing. It offers lessons from age 5, full livery and is a Pony Club centre.
Bloomquist Horse Training is a mother-and-daughter team, Michele and Hayley Bloomquist, in Southern California. They offer riding lessons for ages 5 and up, western training, summer camps and horsemanship courses. Group and corporate events are also offered.
South Coast Equestrian near Weymouth offers full, part and DIY livery with indoor and outdoor schools and American barn stables. It also offers lessons, arena hire and clear round jumping events. A vet surgery holds clinics at the yard twice a week.
Srebrna Polana is a small stable in Łubki near Zbrosławice. It offers recreational horse riding, from lunge lessons for beginners to arena lessons and trail rides. It operates as a branch of Ośrodek Jeździecki Ponny Hoff.
South Farm Stables is a licensed riding school near Tunbridge Wells with over 50 years of experience. It specialises in children and nervous adults and has been a Pony Club centre since 2015. It offers group and private lessons and escorted adult hacking.
Cimla Equestrian Centre near Neath is a family run riding school in the Welsh countryside. It offers pony trekking, a pony club and riding holidays. Livery clients have access to hacks in the Afan Valley.
Prairie Strides in Oak Bluff, Manitoba, provides adaptive horse riding programs for children with disabilities. The programs build confidence, strength and connection. It relies on volunteers and donations.
Le Cheval Autrement in the Dordogne offers equestrian activities and riding lessons in an arena, indoor school or outdoors. It also offers horse livery and wellbeing courses. It is run by Laurence and Anaïs.
Ecurie Compostelle in Pionsat is run by Philippe Leygnac. It breeds sport horses, stands a stallion and sells horses. It also offers livery and riding lessons.
Burcott Riding Centre near Wells was established in 1970 as a family run riding school. It offers private tuition, clinics and courses. It also offers full livery.
Hop Dog Stables is a riding school and livery yard run by Maia Buisson and her team. It shares a passion for horses, equestrian sports and country life.
Boldtry Riding Stables in Chulmleigh, Devon, has been family run for over 50 years. It offers horse riding tuition and recreational riding.
Les Ateliers Équestres in Candé-sur-Beuvron offers riding lessons and groundwork run by a qualified riding instructor. It offers half-livery arrangements with its school horses and well-being sessions with horses. It also offers rides for tourists near the Loire.
The Riding Centre is a family-run equestrian yard in Hout Bay, operating since 1986. It offers lessons for all ages, pony rides, vaulting, livery, leasing and birthday parties. Facilities include jumping and dressage arenas, a cross-country course and outrides to the beach. A café operates on site.
The Ecole d'Attelage de l'Aubrac in Cantoin, Aveyron, offers carriage driving courses and training from half a day to a week. Its owners breed Auvergne draught horses and sell foals. It also offers accommodation.
Inspire Me Equestrian is a riding school near Sevenoaks in Kent founded by Elaine Cochrane. Its BHS coaches teach children and adults on school ponies and horses or on clients' own horses. It runs holiday activities for children and takes bookings online.
Sunnyridge Equestrian in Belnan, Nova Scotia, offers riding lessons for beginners and experienced riders. It also runs therapeutic programming, camps and Farm School, a nature-based animal-assisted program for children.
Bradbourne Riding & Training Centre in Sevenoaks, Kent has offered riding for over 50 years. It is a British Horse Society approved establishment offering group lessons for adults and children. Lessons take place in an indoor school, a sand school or on hacks. The site also lists an RDA group and carriage driving.
Snowdonia Riding Stables in Waunfawr, North Wales, offers pony trekking and countryside and mountain rides for beginners and competent riders. It also gives children's group lessons and private and shared adult lessons. It is British Horse Society approved.
Bardwell Manor Equestrian Centre near Ixworth, Suffolk, was established in 1996 by Sharon and Karl Dawson. It is an ABRS approved coaching centre with 25 horses and ponies and an indoor school. It offers lessons, hacking, livery, horse holidays and camping.
Centre Equestre de Bertaucourt in Bertaucourt-Epourdon offers riding lessons for adults and children, including baby pony classes. It has places for 50 ponies and 50 horses, two indoor arenas and three outdoor arenas. It offers box livery, horse schooling, competitions and courses.
Brimbo Équitation is a cooperative of riding clubs in the Paris region, including the Brimborion pony club in Sèvres. Founded in 1970, it describes itself as the oldest pony club in France. It offers yearly riding, activities, holiday courses, birthdays and riding instructor training.
Centre Equestre de la Grange Martin in Gif-sur-Yvette offers leisure and competition riding from age 2. It runs a pony club, lessons, holiday courses, private rides, adapted riding and birthday parties. Horses can be boarded in boxes or in fields. It is affiliated to the French riding and polo federations.
