Lessons, instruction and schooling — find a yard to learn the ropes or bring a horse on.
Stall Niderorn is a breeding and training yard on the Bachtel in the Zürcher Oberland, run by Evelyn Honegger. Boarded horses live in a herd on a mountain paddock trail with pastures. The yard starts and trains foals, young horses and adult horses, offers cow work and gives group lessons to boarders. It also breeds Quarter Horses.
Hof Schürli is a family-run horse boarding yard in Steg im Tösstal that has operated for 45 years. Horses are kept in a herd, with an emphasis on their social needs. The farm also cares for sick horses recovering on its summer pastures and runs an ethology school on horse keeping, training and feeding. A riding school operates from the yard, and the family also advises on building horse-appropriate stables.
Reithof Staubli is a training and schooling yard for Icelandic horses in Horgenberg near Zurich, run by Mara and Lisa Staubli. It offers riding lessons, horse training and correction, and children's lessons on its own Icelandic horses from about age four. The yard has an indoor arena, oval and pace tracks, boxes, paddocks and turnout stables for boarders. It breeds Icelandic horses in Switzerland and Iceland and has horses for sale.
Stall Moser is a riding yard in Rothenthurm, Switzerland, run by show jumper Marco Moser. It offers horse boarding with daily mucking out and hay or haylage three times a day. The yard provides horse training and schooling, riding lessons and courses, and show jumping training with weekly new courses. Further services include horse management, competition support, a transport service and horses for sale.
Schwärzi is a family-run farm near Neuhaus run by Andrea and Adrian Wildhaber. Its horse business includes a boarding stable with 14 boxes with turnout, an all-weather area, large summer pastures and a half-covered arena. It runs a riding school, offers training for riders and horses, courses and riding camps, and breeds Quarter Horses. The farm also keeps suckler cows and sells beef directly.
Soulmate's Horsemanship offers riding for children and adults in Masein, Graubünden. Its offers include riding lessons, a pony club, hacks and trekking. The approach focuses on learning to ride and work with horses fairly in a warm, safe setting. It is run by Selina Krummenacher.
Hugener Pferdesport is a show jumping yard in the Ägerital run by the Hugener family. Owner Andreas Hugener, a qualified Bereiter and competitive show jumper, produces young and inexperienced horses and presents them at shows. Riders bring their own horses for jumping lessons and training. The yard also breeds its own horses and rents boxes to owners who care for their horses themselves.
Kohinoor's Place in Triesen, Liechtenstein, offers horse-assisted therapy and therapeutic riding, which is listed in the EMR register of complementary medicine. It also gives freelance lessons in groundwork, leisure riding and western riding for riders with their own horse. Further services include on-site loading training, courses with international instructors and advice on stable construction. The yard runs an open stable (Offenstall).
Reiterhof Romy is a riding yard with two stables in Andau and St. Andrä am Zicksee in the Neusiedler Seewinkel. Its riding school teaches classical English and western riding, riding pedagogy and integrative riding for beginners and advanced riders, including preparation for tests, tournaments and shows. Horse owners can board their horses at either site. The yard also runs riding camps, courses and workshops, ranch riding events, and trail rides into the national park and across the border to Hungary.
reit-gut by Sophie Graf is a riding school in Möllersdorf run by owner Sophie Graf since 2017. It focuses on individual, personal instruction rather than a classic large school operation, with pupils grooming, saddling and caring for the horses before and after lessons. Lessons include lunge lessons, dressage, groundwork, jumping sessions and led pony rides, with points cards available. It also runs summer camps, intensive riding weeks and preparation for the Reiterpass and Reiternadel exams.
Haflinger Heissenberger is a family-run Haflinger farm in Stadtschlaining in southern Burgenland. The family has bred Austrian Haflingers since 2015 as members of the Styrian breeding association and shows its horses at studbook inspections, performance tests and foal championships. It offers riding lessons on its Haflingers with preparation for the Reiterpass, Reiternadel and licence exams, as well as riding education for young children and carriage rides. Young horses and horses for sale are listed on the site.
Team Pferd is a mobile riding instruction and horse training service run by Michaela Huber in Lower Austria and Burgenland. She teaches leisure and competition riders at their own yards, with dressage training up to class A, gymnastic work, lunging, pole and cavaletti work, and seat training. Training covers horses from youngsters to seniors, and online lessons are offered across Austria. She also works as an independent horse-feed consultant, offering ration analysis and feeding plans.
Glücksponies is a non-profit association that gives children and adults a respectful, welfare-focused introduction to horses and nature. It offers playful riding lessons, parent-and-child sessions, riding-education support, activity days and riding weeks. Under the name pFAIRdetraining it also offers holistic horse training, schooling and mobile lessons with clients' own horses, including loading training. The association keeps its animals in group housing and open stables and also runs learning-support and leisure activities.
Reitverein Schwarzatal-Hof is a small riding club with its own riding school in Neunkirchen, about 20 minutes from Wiener Neustadt. It offers riding lessons for children, teenagers and adults, from led rides and lunge lessons to dressage and show jumping. Lessons are given by state-certified riding instructors on school horses trained for dressage and jumping. Riders can prepare for the Reiterpass, Reiternadel and licence exams, and the club runs riding camps and holiday care for children. Facilities include an indoor arena and a large floodlit outdoor arena.
Reiterhof Sonja is a riding farm in Apetlon in the Seewinkel area of Burgenland. It offers lunge and arena riding lessons for beginners to advanced riders, trail rides, long-distance riding and riding weeks. Carriage tours run to the Lange Lacke national park area, and ponies are available for short rides for children. The farm also takes horses at livery and has guest rooms.
VG Horse Class is run by Veronika Gerics on her farm in Blumau an der Wild. She offers horse-assisted coaching for individuals, pairs and families, coaching workshops and team-building seminars for companies. Under the LOLINO name she provides riding pedagogy for children, with individual and group sessions, adventure days and birthday parties.
Reitstall Lobau is a family-run riding stable in the Lobau area of Vienna, now in its third generation. It keeps horses for boarders and offers riding lessons and vaulting. The farm also keeps a donkey and other animals, and a stable care team looks after the horses and the yard.
Töchterlehof is an organic farm in Anger, Styria, that breeds Friesian horses and produces mare's milk. The farm runs an online shop for its mare's milk products and offers guided farm tours. It also has a riding arena and offers riding lessons for groups by appointment.
Josefihof is a family-run Icelandic horse farm on the edge of Liezen, operating as a riding school and breeding farm. It stands its own breeding stallions and sells horses and foals. Boarding is offered in open stables, an active stable and boxes with paddocks. Facilities include a dressage arena, an indoor hall, a round pen, an oval track and a treadmill, and school horses are available for riding lessons.
Fehlehof is a farm in Aschau im Zillertal, Tyrol, surrounded by horse paddocks. It offers riding lessons, pony rides, vaulting and therapeutic riding and vaulting. The farm also provides horse boarding and romantic carriage rides with its own horses. Holiday apartments are available on site.
Tribbelditrab is run by Nadja Marihart in Gries im Sellrain, Tyrol. It offers riding pedagogy with horses following the FEBS and GRIPS concepts for children from age four, in small groups and without performance pressure. It also gives individual riding lessons for beginners and advanced riders, teenagers and adults. Separately, it offers learning support for dyslexia and dyscalculia and perception training, which can be booked with or without horses.
Ponyhuus Untereggen is a riding school at Stall Iltenriet in Untereggen. It offers riding lessons for children, teenagers and adults, trail rides, courses, riding camps and holiday programmes, plus care-horse and horse-share arrangements. Its aim is to train responsible leisure riders gently and without pressure or fear. The yard also lists horses and ponies for sale.
Marstall Kloster Einsiedeln is the stud of Einsiedeln Abbey, where horses have been bred continuously for about a thousand years. It breeds the Cavalli della Madonna in traditional bloodlines with its own broodmares. The yard offers horse boarding and guest boxes with turnout boxes, indoor boxes with paddocks or group housing, and individual or group pasture. Riding lessons are available by arrangement, and visitors can book guided tours.
Reitanlage Birch is a riding and training facility in Gossau in the Zürcher Oberland, Switzerland, run by Vera Weber. It offers riding lessons, riding courses, livery places and horses for sale. The site has an outdoor arena of 20 by 40 metres, a lunging ring, a horse walker and 18 boxes with outdoor paddocks plus pastures. Young riders and adults are both welcome.
