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Reitschule Tolderhof

Wiesenweg, 15, 39030 Oberolang - Valdaora di Sopra, Italy

Reitschule Tolderhof is a riding school in Olang (Mitterolang) in South Tyrol with more than 25 years of experience. It offers group lessons, lunge lessons for beginners, and private or small-group lessons in dressage and jumping. Trail rides, carriage driving and led rides for children are also offered. Beginner packages and 10-lesson blocks are available, with reduced prices for guests of the associated Hotel Post Tolderhof.

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Überetscher Reitverein

Montiggler Straße, 60/a, 39057 Eppan an der Weinstraße - Appiano sulla Strada del Vino, Italy

Überetscher Reitverein is an amateur riding club in Eppan, South Tyrol, founded in 1983 on the edge of the Montiggler forest. Its grounds include a clubhouse, five open stables, a large and a small arena, a round pen, short-term rental boxes with paddocks, a horse wash and a mountain trail. Members ride leisure, western, dressage and endurance. The club's riding school offers individual and group lessons for children and adults, trail rides, courses and summer camps.

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Bodnerhof

Innerprags, 10, 39030 Prags - Braies, Italy

Bodnerhof is a family-run farm in Prags in the Dolomites that combines agriculture with a riding operation. It offers guided trail rides, private rides for individuals or couples and individually planned riding tours in the Prags valley. Riding lessons are given to children, teenagers and adults in small groups or one-to-one, focused on leisure riding fundamentals rather than competition. Lunge lessons are also offered.

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Haflinger-Reiten.com

Saltenweg, 6, 39050 Jenesien - San Genesio Atesino, Italy

Haflinger-Reiten is a riding yard at the Gasthof Edelweiss in Jenesien, South Tyrol, dedicated to the Haflinger breed. It offers riding lessons for beginners and advanced riders in the English style, trail rides from one hour to a full day, and led pony rounds. Horse-drawn carriage rides run in summer, with sleigh and carriage rides in winter, including trips to an alpine hut. The yard's school horses are all Haflingers, several of which also work in harness.

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Austrian Star Horses

Kleinsteinbach 91, 8283 Bad Blumau, Austria

Austrian Star Horses is a riding facility in Bad Blumau in the Styrian thermal region. It runs a riding school with qualified trainers for beginners and advanced riders, preparation courses for riding badges and exams, and summer camps. Facilities include a jumping ground, dressage arena, indoor arena and horse walker. Boarding is offered in renovated boxes with paddock or window, or in an open stable, with a waiting list.

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Reitstall Wagner

Reitweg 27, 7551 Stegersbach, Austria

Reitstall Wagner is a family-run riding stable near Stegersbach in southern Burgenland and home of the 1st Burgenland Riding Club Stegersbach. It offers riding lessons all year for beginners, advanced, leisure and competition riders, plus courses leading to riding badges and summer riding camps for children and young people. Other services include boarding, horse schooling, pony rides, day rides and carriage rides. The facility has an indoor arena, a 40 x 60 m sand dressage arena and paddocks, with around 20 horses stabled.

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Ponyhof Körblereck

Körblereck 16, 8380 Jennersdorf, Austria

Ponyhof Körblereck is a pony farm and riding stable in Jennersdorf, Burgenland. It runs a riding school offering riding lessons. The yard also offers boarding for privately owned horses. It describes its horse keeping as species-appropriate with a respectful approach to the animals.

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Bio-Pferdehof Fabian

Ludwigshof 34b, 7540 Güssing, Austria

Bio-Pferdehof Fabian is an organic horse farm in southern Burgenland. It runs riding weeks for children several times a year, where each child is given a care horse and learns groundwork, lunge lessons, tack care and stable work. It offers stabling for trail riders on a daily basis and for long-term boarders, with use of paddocks, a covered round pen and a riding arena included. The farm also hosts children's birthday parties with pony rides and lets guest rooms.

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Dalvero

Zur Mühle 3, 3441 Abstetten, Austria

Dalvero is a drugstore in Abstetten, Lower Austria, that has supplied herbal remedies and supplements for horse and rider since 2003. It offers individual lessons in classical Spanish riding (Doma Alta Escuela) for riders of all levels on their own horses, working up to high-school movements such as piaffe and passage. It also helps buyers find sale horses through contacts with breeders. Olive oil from its own Andalusian finca and colloidal products are sold alongside.

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Sigrid Engelmann - Harmonische Pferdeausbildung

Langenberg 5, 3040 Neulengbach, Austria

Sigrid Engelmann offers mobile riding instruction in the Neulengbach, Tullnerfeld and St. Poelten area of Lower Austria, coming to clients' own stables at any training level. Her teaching focuses on groundwork and in-hand work, correct lunging, riding lessons built on that basis and gymnastic work for gaited horses. She also offers horse training (Beritt) and one- and two-day workshops for groups of three to six participants. Her approach emphasises step-by-step training without pressure and positive reinforcement.

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Zimbed Equines

Grundlsee, Austria

Zimbed Equines is the dressage training business of Tatjana Dillinger, based around Graz, Austria. She offers dressage lessons, mobile riding lessons, compact dressage training, dressage courses and online riding lessons. She also advises on buying horses. The business is named after her Lusitano stallion Zimbabue.

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Leonardihof

Bachgasse 205, 2392 Grub, Austria

Leonardihof in Grub, Austria, is a riding stable, riding club and riding school operating since 1997. It offers livery in window boxes and 16 paddock boxes, with long daily turnout on pastures. Tobias Brodl and his team provide lessons for competition and leisure riders as well as full schooling and competition presentation of horses. The riding school runs summer camps, club shows, exams and birthday parties.

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Pferdehof Spirit

Guido Rütgers Str. 48, 2201 Gerasdorf, Austria

Pferdehof Spirit is a family-run horse farm in Gerasdorf, Austria, operating since 2009. It offers riding lessons for children and adults, starting with individual lessons and progressing to small groups of two to four riders and hacks. Each pupil rides their own share pony or horse, and riders can take badge exams up to the Reiterpass. The farm also offers therapeutic vaulting, horse-assisted education, pony rides, carriage driving, birthday parties and holiday camps.

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Reitklub Wienerwald

Apfelbrunngraben 75, 2384 Breitenfurt bei Wien, Austria

Reitklub Wienerwald is a family-run riding stable in Breitenfurt near Vienna with a livery yard and a riding school. Its school horses include various riding ponies and warmbloods. It offers lessons for beginners and advanced riders of all ages, rider badge and competition preparation, dressage and jumping courses, pony weeks and theory lessons. Boarders can get instruction up to class M, competition support and schooling, and horses can also be hired monthly.

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Lusitano-Gestüt Quinta do Sol

Purbergstraße 54, 8044 Graz, Austria

Lusitano-Gestüt Quinta do Sol is a Lusitano stud in Mariatrost, Graz, describing itself as Austria's first Lusitano breeding operation. It breeds Lusitanos and keeps several breeding stallions that are also available to outside mares of any breed. The stud brokers and sells horses, offers riding lessons and courses, and runs a riding and boarding stable.

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BB-Ranch

Rossegg W. 35, 8164 Gutenberg, Austria

BB-Ranch is a riding facility at the foot of the Schöckl in Gutenberg, Styria, run by Barbara and Bernhard Bauer. It offers training for horses in Western, dressage and jumping, and riding lessons on school horses, ponies or the rider's own horse. Courses, further training and trail rides in the surrounding countryside are also offered. A pony club teaches children and teenagers to handle horses, and the ranch takes in boarding horses.

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Reitstall Rath

Kaindorf 278, 8224 Dienersdorf, Austria

Reitstall Rath is a show jumping and training stable in Kaindorf near Hartberg, Styria, founded in 1982. The facility has an indoor arena, a large outdoor arena, boxes and paddocks. It teaches riders from beginners to competition riders, with lunge lessons, dressage and jumping lessons, courses, children's camps and rental horses. The stable also offers schooling, boarding and loading training, works with the Parelli system, and trains and sells horses from leisure to competition level.

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Reit- & Voltigiersportverein Golden Spirit

Unterrohr 29, 8294 Unterrohr, Austria

Reit- & Voltigiersportverein Golden Spirit is a riding and vaulting club in Unterrohr, Austria. It runs vaulting groups for children and youth, from beginner minis to a performance group, with weekly training sessions. Its Golden Spirit Academy offers individual riding lessons from pony beginners to advanced levels. The club also offers horse training, including mobile schooling, starting young horses, correction of problem horses and online coaching.

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Bio- und Pferdehof Stockner

Stocknerweg 69, 8163 Fladnitz an der Teichalm, Austria

Bio- und Pferdehof Stockner is an organic horse farm in Fladnitz an der Teichalm in the Almenland nature park, Austria. Riding lessons are given on school horses through the on-site riding operation, and the farm has its own riding club. The family breeds New Forest ponies and takes in boarding horses. Holiday flats are also available on the farm.

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Ganzheitliches Pferdeerlebnis

Aspacherfeld 1, 2253 Weikendorf, Austria

Ganzheitliches Pferdeerlebnis is a riding school in Stripfing in the Marchfeld region of Austria. It offers riding lessons for children. Lessons are given on Icelandic horses.

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MB-Ranch

Aussiedlerhof 7, 2453 Sommerein, Austria

MB-Ranch (MB-Trainingstable) is a horse yard in Sommerein, Austria, run by Sabine Schmidt. It offers horse boarding with paddock boxes and outdoor boxes, all-day turnout, hay feeding in the paddock and individual feeding, and welcomes horses with allergies. Lessons are offered in western and English riding as well as for leisure riders, and the site also lists courses and horses for sale.

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Pferde Glücksmomente

Oberkrimml 3, 5743 Krimml, Austria

Pferde Glücksmomente is a pony and riding school in Krimml in the Oberpinzgau region of Austria, describing itself as the first Team Pony school in Austria. It teaches children from a young age to handle and ride ponies using the Team Pony Concept, and offers riding lessons and hacks for children and adults. Guided trail rides take riders through streams, forests and mountain terrain. A certified learning trainer offers horse-assisted learning sessions for children, and the yard also runs a small horse breeding programme.

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Unterlanzin riding stables

Telfen-Lanzin, 61/1, 39040 Kastelruth - Castelrotto, Italy

Unterlanzin riding stables is an equestrian centre in Kastelruth / Castelrotto in South Tyrol, run by Reinhold and Miriam. It keeps Haflinger and Quarter mix horses and offers group and one-to-one riding lessons in a fenced arena. Guided rides of half an hour up to a full day go around Kastelruth and the Seiser Alm / Alpe di Siusi, for beginners and advanced riders. Boxes are available by the month, and a bar on site serves refreshments in season.

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Alpenranch Himmelreich

Tannstraße, 9, 39054 Ritten - Renon, Italy

Alpenranch Himmelreich is a riding ranch on the Ritten plateau near Bolzano, South Tyrol, run by the Tauferer family. It offers riding lessons for beginners and advanced riders all year round, open to day visitors as well as guests. Guided half-day and full-day rides and trekking tours explore the Ritten, and children can take a trial lesson covering horse care and first riding. The ranch also lets holiday apartments.

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