Lessons, instruction and schooling — find a yard to learn the ropes or bring a horse on.
Konjeniški center Logar is an equestrian centre in the village of Lokarje near Vodice, Slovenia. It runs a riding school for beginners as well as riders who want to improve their skills. Young children can enjoy pony rides, and the centre also offers horse care, summer camps for children and birthday parties with horses. It is located on the Logar farmstead, which practises organic farming.
Jahalni center kmetija Janhar is a family riding centre in Hraše near Smlednik, focused on horses since 1994. It offers horse boarding, a riding school, trail and experiential riding, and pony rides for young children. The farm breeds Lipizzaners and its own horses for riding and driving, and offers carriage rides. Summer workshops and riding camps are run for children.
Konjeništvo Pika is a riding school in Ljubljana led by Anja Zupančič, a veterinarian focused on horses. It offers individual and group lessons for beginners and advanced riders, a pony school, birthday parties, riding camps and seminars. Through Equi VetRehab Pika it provides veterinary-supervised horse care and rehabilitation with therapies such as ESWT, Ice-Vibe, BEMER and laser therapy.
Jahalni center Kurovt is a riding centre on the Sorško polje near Škofja Loka, developed from a family farm with over 30 years of horse keeping. It has room for more than 30 horses and offers boarding with extensive trail riding. Riding courses and lessons are given by instructors, and summer camps are held for children. A small farm zoo with alpacas, goats and rabbits is also on site.
Konjeniški klub Park Sava is a riding club on the banks of the Sava river in Ljubljana. It runs a riding school, summer riding camps for children aged 5 to 15 and riding birthday parties. Horse boarding includes transport, starting young horses, turnout, stall cleaning and regular feeding. The centre has two large barns, a pony barn, two indoor arenas, outdoor sand arenas and a horse walker.
Reiterhof Landhaus Podesser is a riding farm in Kötzing above Seeboden on Lake Millstatt. It offers lunge lessons, arena lessons on school horses or the rider's own horse, small-group jumping lessons and hacks of one to three hours. Riding holidays for girls, school sports weeks and horse training on request are also offered. The farm additionally lets four holiday flats, with discounts on riding for house guests.
Ride outside the box is run by Kerry Spiess-Loane, a Tellington TTouch practitioner and Centered Riding instructor near Feldkirchen in Carinthia. She works with horses and riders across riding styles to build a calmer, more trusting partnership. Private lessons of about 45 minutes are offered in the Feldkirchen area, with group tours and intensive sessions for those further away. She also organises courses.
Pferdehof Rupitsch is a family-run horse farm at Lake Weissensee in Carinthia. It offers riding lessons for beginners and advanced riders, including lunge lessons and individual dressage lessons. Experienced riders can join slow or fast trail rides as well as half-day, full-day and two-day rides around the lake. A children's riding programme is offered, and the farm also lets two holiday flats.
Steinerhof is a family-run riding farm of the Leitner family in St. Marein near Neumarkt in Styria, in the Zirbitzkogel-Grebenzen nature park. It offers riding lessons, natural horsemanship and horse training led by trainer Anna. Riding weeks are held for children aged seven and up. Guests can stay in the farm's apartments and rooms.
Posestvo Blata is an equestrian estate in Žaga near Bovec in the Soča valley, whose main activity is horse riding. It offers trail riding, pony rides for children and individual riding lessons. The yard is run by Greta Štor, a qualified riding instructor with a show jumping background. Tourists can explore the valley landscape on horseback.
Reitstall Knobel is a riding, breeding and training yard in Reichenburg run by Jsabella Knobel. It offers riding lessons, a basic riding training course and riding holidays. The yard also provides livery for privately owned horses. The team competes in show jumping and publishes its competition results.
Konjeniški klub Giovanni is a riding club and riding school in Peč near Grosuplje, a few kilometres from Ljubljana. It offers riding lessons for children and adults every day of the week. The club runs summer riding camps, horse birthday parties, riding holidays, exam preparation, competitions and horse hire. Lessons are given by riding instructors licensed by the Slovenian Equestrian Federation.
Kobilarna Lipica in Slovenia is the home stud of the Lipizzaner breed, keeping more than 400 white Lipizzaners on over 300 hectares. Its breeding tradition is inscribed on UNESCO's list of intangible cultural heritage. Visitors can watch training sessions and performances of the Lipica riding school, take guided tours, carriage rides and riding. The stud also sells horses and hosts equestrian competitions on its racecourse.
Hubhof - Moschinger is a family farm in Oberndorf an der Melk, Lower Austria, where Ramona Moschinger offers riding pedagogy and therapeutic riding for children, young people and adults. Horses also come to the farm for training, from young horses being started under saddle to horses that need more confidence, with groundwork as the foundation. The farm offers training places to develop calm leisure horses or therapy horses, as well as day courses at the client's own stable.
Karinthia Welshpony is a small Welsh Pony Section C breeding operation on an organic farm near Lake Faak in Carinthia, Austria. The breeding mares live in open stabling with plenty of turnout, and foals stay with their dams for up to a year before joining young-horse groups. The farm stands stud stallions and offers ponies for sale. It also provides riding lessons and courses such as natural horsemanship and seat training, with its Welsh ponies and Cobs available as course horses.
Reitstall Bürki is a family-run riding stable in Oberdiessbach, Switzerland, established in 1976 by Hans and Susanne Bürki and taken over by Daniel Bürki in 2014. The riding school offers private and group lessons in show jumping and dressage, lunge lessons, guided hacks, competition accompaniment and preparation for the Brevet and licence. The yard also provides livery boarding and training of horses (Pension und Beritt). It regularly has leisure and sport horses for sale.
Ranč Pelance is a riding school and riding club near Most na Soči in the Soča valley, Slovenia. It runs beginner and advanced riding courses that prepare riders for the Jahač 1 exam. Children can start with short pony sessions from age three, and there are workshops, summer riding camps and birthday parties with horses. Guided trail rides lead through nearby forests and to the Soča river.
Pferde.at is a Vienna family business led by Gregor Zehetner that works with horses daily. It runs a farrier service covering all aspects of hoof care and trains farrier apprentices. A carriage driving school offers courses, qualifications and training in driving. The business also operates Fiaker carriage rides from several stands in central Vienna.
Islandpferdehof Obergiem near Feldbach is an Icelandic horse farm offering riding lessons on trained school horses in individual and group sessions. It also runs weekend trail rides for advanced riders, riding pedagogy for children and vaulting lessons. Throughout the year it holds courses, holiday camps, theme days, workshops and birthday events for children, teenagers and adults.
WesternReitCenter Lobau is a western riding centre in Groß-Enzersdorf, at the edge of the Lobau nature reserve near Vienna. It boards horses in boxes with turnout, paddock boxes and open stabling, and takes guest horses by the day. Lessons and schooling are offered for riders from beginners to specialised competitors. The team has experience in keeping, breeding, care and training of horses.
Auszeit-Hof Südburgenland is a riding school run by Margit Triebl in Neuhaus am Klausenbach, Austria. It teaches children, teenagers and adults to ride with individual guidance and without performance pressure. For horse owners it offers weekly training sessions combined with craniosacral work for the horse. Craniosacral sessions and mental training for people are also offered.
Reitclub Quinta do Sol is a riding facility in Graz-Mariatrost, Austria, run by two Lusitano enthusiasts. They have bred Lusitano horses since 2002. The yard offers boarding in stable boxes, outdoor boxes and boxes with paddock, with hay, concentrate feed and daily turnout included. Riding lessons on Lusitanos are given on site.
Reitstall Roubal is a riding stable in Pischelsdorf, Austria. It offers full-care horse boarding, training of horse and rider including Beritt, dressage lessons, jumping training and lungeing, as well as mobile lessons. Courses cover jumping, lungeing, groundwork, desensitisation and loading training. The stable also offers riding shares and sells horses, and advises on buying and selling a horse.
Reiterhof Gruber is a family-run riding yard in Pressbaum, Austria, run by Melanie and Franz Gruber. It offers pony riding, carriage rides and boarding for horses. The yard keeps its own ponies and horses, which are introduced on its team page.
