Lessons, instruction and schooling — find a yard to learn the ropes or bring a horse on.
Konjeniški Klub Karlo is a riding club with a riding school above Maribor, Slovenia. It offers riding lessons for beginners and children, individual riding, show-jumping training, exams and licences, and competitions. Short pony sessions are offered for the youngest riders, along with horse hire and trail riding in nature for visitors and groups. The club has more than 100 members and runs summer riding camps.
Reitstall Pikl is a riding and vaulting stable in Graz-St. Peter. State-certified riding and vaulting instructors teach children and adults in group and private lessons. Vaulting is offered for children from the age of four. The stable runs riding weeks for children, and its horses go out to pasture daily with trail riding available nearby.
Konjeniško društvo Pesnica is a riding association on a farm in Pesnica pri Mariboru, Slovenia. Its instructors give riding lessons in the arena, take experienced riders out on trail rides and run riding camps and equestrian games. Founder Jože Frajzman is a riding instructor licensed for dressage, show jumping and equitation. The farm also keeps a mini zoo with donkeys, llamas and other animals.
Konjeniški klub Strmol is a riding club in Rogatec, Slovenia, located in a landscape park near Donačka gora. The club runs a riding school, prepares riders for competition licences and offers dressage training and guided rides. It also provides therapeutic riding, summer camps, educational events and celebrations. Riding trails around the area are part of its offer.
Haflingerhof Gams is a riding farm in Gams near Landl in the Gesäuse National Park region of Styria. It is a licensed riding school of the Austrian equestrian federation, with lessons taught by Claudia Gsellmann. The farm offers riding lessons in dressage and jumping for beginners and advanced riders, lunge lessons, guided trail rides and multi-day trekking rides. It also runs courses, birthday parties for children and a summer camp for kids.
Reitunterricht Bachler Tobias is a riding coaching business near Graz in Styria run by Tobias and Claudia Bachler. Tobias Bachler is a licensed riding instructor who teaches dressage, show jumping and eventing and prepares riders for competitions. The business offers lessons at its own stable as well as mobile courses at the yards of clients. Services also include starting and training young horses, correcting difficult horses and helping horses return to work after injury, and the site lists a breeding stallion.
Islandpferdehof Mooskirchen is an Icelandic horse farm in Mooskirchen, Styria, run by Monika and Karo Wenzel. It offers riding lessons for beginners, advanced and competition riders, including instruction in the tölt and pace gaits, classical dressage, vaulting and integrative riding. The farm hosts clinics with guest trainers, trail rides and riding camps for children, and has an oval track, an indoor arena and a round pen. It also provides short-term boarding, training of client horses, a stallion station, young horse rearing and sales of leisure and competition horses.
Ponyseidank in Greisdorf near Graz offers riding pedagogy for children from two years old and riding lessons. It also offers learning coaching with horses and riding pedagogy for children with special needs, as well as training in riding pedagogy. The owner, a trained riding pedagogue and riding therapist, also runs horse-assisted coaching for adults and companies under the Spiegelpferd name.
Kühberger Ponyhof is a pony farm in Hengsberg south of Graz focused on children. It offers FEBS riding-pedagogy sessions that introduce children aged 3 to 10 to ponies in groups of four. The farm also hosts children's birthday parties with pony grooming and riding. The team consists of several qualified riding-pedagogy instructors.
Reitanlage Lukashof is a riding facility in St. Margarethen an der Raab welcoming riders of all disciplines and levels. It runs a riding school with qualified school horses. Riders with their own horses can take dressage and jumping lessons. The livery yard feeds horses with forage from its own production.
Andrea Pilch offers riding lessons and horse experiences for children and adults in Graz. Her riding kindergarten (FEBS) introduces children aged 3 to 10 to ponies in small groups. She also gives holistic riding lessons for beginners, leisure and competition riders and offers competition support. She is a federally certified riding-pedagogy instructor and a dressage rider herself.
Ponyspass offers pony experiences for children at its farm in Edelsbach bei Feldbach. A session includes getting to know the pony, brushing, saddling, feeding and a 30-minute ride. The focus is on riding pedagogy, with courses where children learn to handle ponies without performance pressure. It also provides pony rides at events and children's birthday parties.
Lernviereck near Graz offers pony play sessions for children aged 2 to 6, including grooming, leading and guided riding. Children from age 5 can take a pony and horse basics course covering handling, care and how to sit on a horse. It also runs learning and play-based training and resilience training with the horse as co-trainer, plus parent-child sessions, summer camps and birthday parties. Sessions take place mainly at the riding arena year-round.
Reiterhof Barbara Koth is a riding farm near Hartberg in Styria run by riding and social pedagogue Barbara Koth. It offers riding lessons and individual pedagogical sessions with horses that combine riding pedagogy with social pedagogy. Sessions are tailored to the age and needs of each person, and riding is not always required. The farm also hosts events.
Horse Heaven MM is a riding operation at the Falkensteiner Resort Punta Skala near Petrcane, Croatia, run by a German couple. It offers riding for children from age 3 and for adults, carriage rides, beach rides, swimming with horses and photo shoots. The owners previously bred Pura Raza Española horses in Germany and have experience in classical and academic riding, horsemanship, carriage driving and long-rein work.
Gestüt Wisperndorf is a horse stud north of Bad St. Leonhard in the upper Lavanttal focused on Haflinger breeding. It keeps breeding mares, young horses and sport horses, and a licensed stallion stands at the stud for the 2026 season. The farm also offers livery, horse training and riding lessons, and lists horses for sale. It is run by Andreas and Daniela Zettl, both active in riding and driving competition.
Pferdehof Kulmland is a horse farm in Gersdorf an der Feistritz offering horse boarding, including open-stable places, and horse training. Individual riding lessons are given, and the surroundings are used for hacks and forest rides with the farm's horses. The farm breeds Haflingers, Norikers, Austrian Warmbloods, Trakehners and riding ponies, and lists horses for sale. It also holds monthly activities such as groundwork and loading training.
Reitschule Schraut is a riding school in Lower Austria teaching beginners and advanced riders of all ages. It offers dressage and jumping lessons, vaulting, lunge seat lessons and guided or accompanied hacks on its school horses. Beginner sessions are one-to-one and group lessons are capped at three riders. The school also runs camps, events and birthdays, accompanies riders to shows, and is moving to the Ebreichspark in Ebreichsdorf from September 2026.
Reitschule Isabella Swoboda is a riding school in Baden run by Isabella Swoboda, a trained Pferdewirt and riding instructor. Beginners learn the basics and handling of the horse in individual lunge lessons from age seven. Advanced riders can take group lessons with at most two riders or 30-minute private lessons. The school also runs summer camps and introduces its own horses on the site.
Einfach. Doppel. is run by Anna Doppel in Finkenstein am Faaker See and combines coaching with work alongside horses. It offers horse-assisted interventions for adults, children and teenagers, as well as supervision and team coaching. Riding lessons are given on its own horses and ponies in groups of at most three, with much riding without a saddle. Shared riding arrangements and holiday camps are also offered.
MG-Pferdetransport is a horse transport service run by Moritz Gloor and Gaby Wilhelm in Bonaduz, Switzerland. The team draws on decades of experience as show jumping and dressage riders and runs a small breeding operation in the Allgäu, importing its own horses into Switzerland. Besides transport, it offers regular riding lessons in the arena, on the jumping course and cross-country. The site also has a shop and lists horses for sale.
Reitstall Reischach is a riding stable in Reischach near Bruneck in the Puster Valley, run by Karin and Madeleine. It offers a riding school with lessons, trail rides and led pony rides for children, as well as livery for horse owners. The team helps with ridability problems through groundwork and equipment checks and starts young horses under saddle. Small-group equine-assisted education supports children with topics such as learning difficulties, including children with disabilities. Karin also works as an osteopath and physiotherapist for horses and dogs.
Reiterhof Grasspeinten is a family-run riding farm in Pfalzen in the Puster Valley, South Tyrol. It offers lunge lessons, riding courses, badge preparation, trail rides, vaulting and led riding for small children. The farm takes in boarding horses in a stable built in 2011, where every box has its own paddock and the horses have daily group turnout on a large pasture. An indoor arena and an outdoor riding area allow work in all weathers. The family also lets holiday flats on the farm.
Reitschule Priska Kelderer is a riding school in Kaltern, South Tyrol, based at the GeorgsTurm equestrian facility in Oberplanitzing. Priska Kelderer is a riding instructor and horse trainer with over 20 years of experience with horses. She teaches western riding to children from age 8, teenagers and adults, with lunge and group lessons offered year-round. She also trains horses and prepares riders for competitions.
