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Lessons, instruction and schooling — find a yard to learn the ropes or bring a horse on.

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Sandra Amtmann-Kern

8052 Graz, Austria

Sandra Amtmann-Kern, trading as happier animals, is a mobile riding instructor and horse trainer based in Graz. She offers riding lessons and schooling of horses tailored to each horse and rider, for leisure riders and competitors alike. She has trained her own horses in dressage up to Intermediaire level and is training as a licensed instructor of the Ecole de Legerete. She also offers animal energy work, animal massage and nutrition advice.

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Sensory Riding

8020 Graz, Austria

Sensory Riding is the horse training business of Sandra Polzer. She offers lessons, coaching and neuro-athletics for riders, both online and in person. For horses she works on sensory integration, neuro-athletics and movement, training horses in hand, on the lunge and under saddle. She has taught riders one-to-one and in courses and workshops for 25 years.

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Lehrmeister Pferd

Weidweg, 8051 Graz, Austria

Lehrmeister Pferd is the training business of Sandra Polzer in the Graz area. She gives individual lessons focused on dressage combined with in-hand, lunge and long-rein work, plus seat training and rider coaching. She also trains horses with behavioural or rideability problems, with horses staying at her home stable for intensive schooling. The site states that her offers are moving to Sensory Riding and that this website runs out at the end of 2026.

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Carina Hofmeister

Haydengasse 5, 2822 Brunn an der Pitten, Austria

Carina Hofmeister is a state-certified dressage riding trainer and Bereiterin FN based in Markt Piesting. She gives regular dressage lessons around Vienna and southern Lower Austria and multi-day courses across Austria, from basic training up to class S. She also offers schooling, correction and training of horses, either in the owner's stable or with training places on site. Competition support and lunging work are part of her services.

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Dressurtraining Wolsdorff

Wiener Neustädter Str. 62/8, 2542 Kottingbrunn, Austria

Dressurtraining Wolsdorff is a dressage training business run by Nicola Wolsdorff. It offers online riding lessons and personal coaching for riders who want to train their own horse systematically. The Start & Shine mentoring programme combines online lessons with a training plan over several months. A free initial consultation is offered.

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EQUINUM

Hans Ponstingl-Gasse 2, 8380 Jennersdorf, Austria

EQUINUM is a training and coaching business for horses and riders run by Alma Mujcinovic in Jennersdorf. It offers mobile riding lessons, schooling and corrective training, with a focus on young, sensitive and difficult horses. Lessons cover classical dressage, groundwork, in-hand work, liberty work and rider biomechanics, on site or online. Advice on horse type, keeping and feeding, as well as online courses and seminars, is also offered.

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RTH Oberbierbaum

Oberbierbaum 4, 3650 Pöggstall, Austria

RTH Oberbierbaum is a small horse yard in the southern Waldviertel with nine horses and ponies. It offers individual riding lessons and horse training in the tradition of classical horsemanship, covering dressage, small jumps, gaited riding, groundwork, lunging and trail rides. Mobile riding lessons, animal-assisted therapy and carriage rides are also offered. Dog training and dog massage are available as a side service.

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Konjeniški klub Boni

Vrhole pri Slov. Konjicah 38, 2316 Zgornja Ložnica, SI

Konjeniški klub Boni is a riding club in Vrhole pri Slovenskih Konjicah, Slovenia. Its riding school teaches beginners the basics and helps more experienced riders progress, with led riding, lunge lessons or individual riding. Riders can take the Jahač 1 and Jahač 2 exams set by the Equestrian Federation of Slovenia. In summer the club runs day care for children with daily riding and work with horses, and each September it hosts an open day with free riding.

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Zauberpferd&wunderkind

Lassein 4, 9121 Völkermarkt, Austria

Zauberpferd&wunderkind is a horse-assisted pedagogy and coaching practice run by Andrea Katholnig on a farm in Lassein. As a certified riding pedagogue and animal-assisted coach, she works with children and adults to build personality, social skills and wellbeing through contact with horses. The offer includes riding lessons, sold singly or in blocks of ten, as well as trail rides and children's birthday events. Appointments are booked online.

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Ponykerstin

Tatzerweg 5, 9400 Wolfsberg, Austria

Ponykerstin is a pony riding school for children in Wolfsberg, Carinthia, run by Kerstin. Children learn to ride on well-trained ponies sized to them, in one-to-one sessions or very small groups. Lessons include grooming, leading and getting to know the ponies as well as riding. The programme also offers a pony licence course, holiday camps, pony parties and online booking of trial lessons.

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Falkihof

Kleiner Sternberg 1, 9220 Velden am Wörther See, Austria

Falkihof is a pony yard in Velden am Wörthersee, Austria, run by Gerrit Grossmann. It offers pony riding for children from four years old and riding weeks for children. The yard also hosts children's birthday parties with horses, fun shows and other events. Hacking out in the surrounding countryside is available.

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Familienreithof Gore

9554 St. Urban am Urbansee, Austria

Familienreithof Gore is a family riding farm near the Urbansee in Carinthia, Austria. Guests on farm holidays get daily riding and riding taster sessions included. The farm also has alpacas, petting animals, holiday flats and a sauna.

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Lake-View Ranch

Fresen 3/A, 9552 Steindorf, Austria

Lake-View Ranch is a family-run western riding yard above Lake Ossiach in Carinthia, Austria. It offers individual riding lessons and schooling of horses for riders who bring their own horse, from leisure riders to competitors. Services range from western riding lessons for children to competition preparation. The yard also provides livery boarding, rents out its indoor arena and lets a holiday flat.

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Reitakademie Sálarhestur

Kantniger Str. 29, 9220 Folge uns, Austria

Reitakademie Sálarhestur is a non-profit family riding association in Carinthia focused on the relationship between people and horses. It runs riding-pedagogy programmes such as a Mini Pony Club for children from age two, pony groups for older children and offers for women. Its teaching combines riding, groundwork and horse knowledge. The association also offers therapeutic riding, camps and pony birthday parties for children.

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Ferienranch Wernhof

9555 Glanegg, Austria

Ferienranch Wernhof is a family riding ranch in Glanegg, Carinthia, aimed at riding holidays. It offers group lessons, intensive and private lessons in the arena, led rides for small children and trail rides of about two hours. Lessons are given by a certified western riding instructor. The ranch also rents self-catering holiday flats.

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Philhippies - Zeit mit Pferden

Glanegg 36, 9555 Glanegg, Austria

Philhippies is a small horse yard in Glanegg, Carinthia, run by a certified riding educator and animal-assisted coach. It offers holistic riding lessons for children and adults in single or paired sessions, covering groundwork, horse care and riding. The yard also runs a pony club, holiday camps and horse experience days. Further services include therapeutic riding, animal-assisted education and horse-assisted team workshops for companies.

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Reiterhof Einetter

Stöfflerberg 2, 9632 Kirchbach, Austria

Reiterhof Einetter is a family-run riding farm above Kirchbach in the Gailtal, Carinthia, run by Erwin and Martina Einetter. It offers arena riding, jumping sessions, taster rides and guided trail rides from two hours up to day-long rides on about 30 km of forest tracks. The farm keeps its own riding horses and horses for sale, and welcomes guest horses for a daily fee. Riding camps and holiday flats are also available.

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KAMARI - Ranch

Karl 21, 9212 Techelsberg, Austria

KAMARI - Ranch in Techelsberg, Carinthia, combines riding pedagogy with nature experiences. Run by a social worker and certified riding pedagogue, it offers horse-assisted sessions for concentration, dyslexia and dyscalculia, ADHD, school readiness and burnout prevention. Individual and group sessions, trail rides, adventure days and holiday camps are available. Adults returning to riding, holiday guests and beginners are also welcome to ride the ranch's horses.

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Team Pony-Schule Poppichl

Poppichl 2, 9061 Poppichl, Austria

Team Pony-Schule Poppichl is a pony riding school in Poppichl near Klagenfurt that works according to the Team Pony Concept. Its courses introduce children from age 2 to ponies and horses through play, with care and partnership put ahead of riding. Age-based groups range from toddler sessions with a parent upward. The school also hosts themed birthday parties, workshops, events and holiday care. Regular courses are currently paused, while birthday parties and workshops continue.

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Pferdehof Römerweg

Römerweg 97, 8063 Edelsbach bei Graz, Austria

Pferdehof Römerweg is a children's riding school and animal experience farm in Eggersdorf, Styria, founded in 2002. It offers weekly riding lessons at several levels, horse knowledge, animal playgroups and hacks. Holiday camps with or without overnight stays and children's birthday parties are held on the farm. The founder teaches therapeutic riding and vaulting (heilpädagogisches Voltigieren) and natural horsemanship.

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Lindenhof

Dorfstraße 57, 8071 Hausmannstätten, Austria

Lindenhof in Hausmannstätten combines a small children's riding school with breeding of Pura Raza Española (PRE) horses. The riding school teaches children aged 3 to 12 on four ponies and small horses, covering leading, grooming, saddling and bridling as well as riding. The farm breeds PRE horses, hosts breed inspections for the Spanish breed association and sells home-bred and imported horses. Its trained show and film horses are booked for events, photo shoots and film productions, and the yard runs clinics with international trainers.

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Konjeniški center Hariet

Vrhniška cesta 13, 1357 Podpeč, SI

Konjeniški center Hariet is an equestrian centre in Notranje Gorice near Brezovica, less than 10 km from Ljubljana. It teaches riding at beginner, recreational and professional levels and runs week-long summer riding camps for children. Riders can take the Jahač I and Jahač II exams and earn competition and instructor licences. The centre also schools horses, prepares them for competition and helps clients find a horse to buy. Livery horses are kept in airy boxes with turnout, a large arena and pasture.

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Konji v naravi

Lesno Brdo 42, 1354 Ferjanov grič, SI

Konji v naravi is a small horse yard in Slovenia offering riding and horsemanship programmes in a natural setting. Children's programmes for ages 7 to 16 cover horse behaviour, care, leading and riding, with summer holiday morning programmes in July and August. Adult sessions focus on reading horse body language, groundwork and basic riding, presented as horse-assisted personal development. The yard also rents stable boxes with twice-daily feeding, mucking out and daily turnout. Programmes are led by a certified riding instructor with long experience in show jumping and training young horses.

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Ranč Mufko

Slape 108, 1260 Ljubljana, SI

Ranč Mufko is a horse ranch near Ljubljana, Slovenia, offering family-oriented experiences with ponies and horses. It hosts children's birthday parties with grooming and pony rides, and family sessions with three ponies and two large horses. Its individual programme combines horse care, groundwork and balanced riding, and it also offers therapeutic time with horses and rides in nature. The ranch operates seasonally on weekdays by prior arrangement.

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