Lessons, instruction and schooling — find a yard to learn the ropes or bring a horse on.
Agro Leuener is a family-run farm in Sennwald in the St. Gallen Rhine Valley that switched to horse keeping in 2014. Its focus is horse breeding and species-appropriate horse boarding on 60 hectares surrounded by pasture and riding country. It grows feed for the boarded horses on its own land. The farm also runs a riding school for children and offers agricultural trading and winter services.
Reitsport Urbani is a riding facility in St. Stefan, Austria, open Monday to Saturday all year. Its riding school teaches beginners and competition riders, with lunge lessons, group lessons and private lessons. It regularly runs courses and exams for the Reiterpass, Reiternadel and riding licence. The yard also schools young horses and offers boarding for privately owned horses.
Haflingerhof Halbwachs is a family-run horse yard in Kitzeck, Austria, operated as a horse club. It offers riding lessons for children and adults, rider camps with hacks and meals, half-day trail rides and full activity days. Children can also celebrate birthdays with the horses. The yard keeps ponies, Haflingers, warmbloods and a Noriker, and the family has worked with horses since 1990.
Reitschule Hoffmann was opened by Ludwig Hoffmann in 1973 in Fernitz near Graz, and the Reitclub Auhof-Fernitz followed in 1975. The riding school teaches beginners to advanced riders in groups on school horses suited to all ages and levels. Horse owners can keep their horses at livery, with schooling, lessons and competition coaching in dressage and jumping. The facility hosts dressage shows and championships in Styria.
Reitstall Wrumnig is a riding yard in Klagenfurt-Harbach led by show jumper Nicole Wrumnig. Its riding school uses well-trained school horses for dressage and jumping lessons for beginners and advanced riders, with group hacks, vaulting and led pony rides. It also offers riding for people with disabilities and hippotherapy. The yard holds regular exams for the Reiterpass, Reiternadel and licence and runs summer riding weeks.
Stall Gratzi is a family-run riding yard at the foot of the Josefsberg in the southern Lavanttal, Carinthia, now in its second generation. It offers lessons on school horses, including lunge lessons, seat lessons, private lessons and small-group dressage and jumping lessons. Riders with their own horses can take competition coaching. The yard also provides livery, horse training, competition sport and horses for sale.
Family Ranch Frankenau is a horse centre in Frankenau in central Burgenland, run by sisters Jenny and Jasmin. It has an indoor arena and an outdoor arena and offers riding lessons on the lunge or in the arena, pony walks, guided hacks, day and trail rides, and activities for kindergartens and schools. It runs multi-day riding camps and PferdeZeit programmes, horse training, therapy offers and livery for private horses. Guest horse boxes and trail guides are available for rides into the vineyards and across the border into Hungary.
Pferdehof Auer is a horse yard in Ponigl in the municipality of Thannhausen, about 10 minutes from Weiz. It offers riding lessons in dressage, jumping and hacking, groundwork and theory, sold as single sessions or 5- and 10-lesson courses. It provides riding pedagogy for children from age four and, since spring 2024, inclusive horse-assisted pedagogy. The yard also offers livery and is home to the Reitverein Thannhausen.
Reitgut Kronberghof is a riding facility in Kronberg near Wolkersdorf, just north of Vienna. It runs a riding school for children, young riders, returners and adults, starting on the lunge and continuing in small groups of up to five or in private lessons. Lessons take place in a 15 x 30 m indoor arena or on outdoor arenas. The yard also offers livery with well-equipped boxes and free choice of trainer for boarders, and has a riding club.
Reitstall Jöbstl is a family-run riding yard in Obervogau in the southern Styrian Mur meadows, operating since 1986. It offers riding lessons for beginners and advanced riders with a focus on show jumping, plus training for the Reiterpass and Reiternadel. The yard has 50 livery places with full care, a lunging hall, a 20 x 50 m indoor arena and two sand arenas used for competitions. It also trains apprentices as equine workers.
Reitstall Zweidick is a riding stable in St. Nikolai im Sausal run by Carina Zweidick. It offers lunge lessons for beginners, small-group riding lessons, jumping lessons and preparation for riding badges and licences, as well as show support. As a livery yard it has paddock and indoor boxes, with daily turnout, hay three times a day and concentrate feed included. The yard also provides training and schooling of horses, riding pedagogy and pony rides for children's birthdays.
Patricia Herzog is a mobile horse and riding trainer based in Viktring near Klagenfurt, working in the tradition of classical riding. She gives private riding lessons on the client's own horse at their stable, or online via video call, and offers schooling of horses. Her services also include classical in-hand work, relationship work with the horse and video analysis. She is also a qualified equine physiotherapist.
Robausch Reining Horses is a western riding ranch in St. Lorenzen im Mürztal run by Ilse and Christian Robausch. It offers riding lessons for children, teenagers and adults, preparation for riding exams up to the Western Riding Certificate, and western, groundwork and horse-care courses. It also runs young-horse training, foal training and western camps for children. The ranch breeds and sells reining horses, advises on horse purchases and has a covered arena with reining footing and a stallion station.
DiPPids in Graz-Stattegg combines psychotherapy with work with horses, led by Mag. Gudrun Dietrich. It offers horse-assisted psychotherapy, systemic family therapy and psychotherapy for children. A team of instructors provides riding pedagogy, therapeutic riding, riding lessons for beginners and riding pedagogy for autistic children and young people. It also runs children's riding camps, summer animal weeks and pony-riding birthday parties.
Reitstall Wakonig is a family-run riding stable in Maria Rain, about 4 km south of Klagenfurt, managed by Markus Wakonig. It offers riding for beginners, leisure riders and ambitious competition riders, using its own school horses. Riding pedagogy is offered for young children from age 3. Markus Wakonig is also a farrier, and the stable is a training business for Pferdewirte (equine management apprentices).
Glis Ranch is a Western riding stable in Annenheim, Carinthia, founded in 1978. It offers Western and English riding lessons for beginners and advanced riders, individually or in groups. The instructors are recognised Western riding trainers, one of them a state-certified Western riding instructor. The ranch also keeps breeding stallions and helps riders looking for a horse.
Western- & Wanderreithof Freisinger is a western and trail riding yard in Stiwoll, about 20 km north-west of Graz, run by Betty Freisinger. It offers western riding lessons for beginners and riders switching style, seat training, groundwork and handling lessons. The yard starts young horses and retrains horses from other riding styles. It leads hacks, day rides and multi-day trail rides, and offers riding-education sessions for young children.
Wellinghof is an Icelandic horse farm in Kitzeck im Sausal in the South Styria nature park, run by Anna Haerdtl and her family. It offers group and private riding lessons for beginners and advanced riders, and hacks on school horses or the rider's own horse. The farm also runs riding camp weeks and trail rides, takes boarders, and breeds and sells horses. Its horses live on large pastures in summer and in open stables in winter.
Pferdehof Saurugg is a family-run horse farm in Gniebing near Feldbach, Austria, run by Nina and Markus Saurugg. Its focus is training young horses and presenting them at competitions. It offers riding instruction from beginner level up to S-class. Breeding and horse sales are a further focus, and the site lists sale horses and a boarding service.
Ausbildungsstall Riedl is a riding and training stable in St. Pölten run by Melanie Riedl, a state-certified riding instructor. It offers livery with all-day turnout, a horse solarium, treadmill and horse walker. Riding lessons in dressage and show jumping are given to leisure riders, newcomers to competition and advanced riders. The stable also schools horses, specialising in young horses and young riders, and hosts courses and events.
Pferderanch Schrick is a family farm in Schrick near Mistelbach that keeps horses. It offers riding lessons for beginners and amateurs on their own horses or on trained school horses, with western riding instruction. Young horses can be started and older horses kept in training, and courses are held regularly. The ranch also provides horse boxes and sells horse feed.
Der Reithof is a riding farm in the Zala valley at Zalaszentlászló, Hungary. It runs a riding school, the Zalai Lovas Sportklub and riding therapy with its own herd of horses. Guests can book riding lessons, guided trail rides and stays with their own horse, and the farm also takes in boarders. Accommodation, meals and wellness packages are offered alongside the riding.
DF-Riding is a dressage and show-jumping yard run by Martina Dorfinger and Jörn Friedl. It offers riding lessons, including lessons on its own competition horses, and schooling rides in dressage and jumping. Since December 2020 it has offered boarding places at the Magna Racino facility in Ebreichsdorf. The team competes regularly and also offers its own sport horses for sale.
Claudia Kohlhammer offers mobile training for horse and rider based on the old Californian western riding tradition. Services include mobile riding lessons, starting and schooling of horses, lesson horses and trailer loading training. She has 25 years of experience with horses and is a qualified western riding instructor and Centered Riding instructor (Level 1). Training follows the western riding training scale, adapted to each horse.
