Lessons, instruction and schooling — find a yard to learn the ropes or bring a horse on.
Reiterhof Aderklaa is a family-run riding yard on the edge of Vienna. It offers pony riding from age 3 and riding lessons from age 6, including dressage and jumping lessons, guided hacks and riding badge exams. During school holidays it runs riding weeks for children and teenagers. Boarding horses are kept in herds with daily turnout, summer pasture, hay and concentrate feed, and the yard has an indoor arena.
Reiten in Passion is the riding instruction and horse training business of Sabrina Radl-Mica in Austria. She offers individual schooling of horses, mobile riding lessons, lessons on her own school horses and riding courses. Her teaching follows the principles of classical and vertical riding after Manuel Jorge de Oliveira, with a focus on lateral work and straightness. She covers Vienna and surroundings and parts of Lower and Upper Austria.
MENORQUINS is run by riding instructor Karin Oberbichler, who teaches leisure riders in the Bad Vöslau, Südstadt and Baden area up to Wiener Neustadt. Her focus areas are classical dressage, Tellington TTouch, integrative riding, show riding and trick training. She works with Iberian horses and previously imported Menorquin and Pura Raza Española horses to Austria for many years. Lessons are adapted to the daily condition of horse and rider and are by appointment.
Reitstall Kiebitzhof Baden is a riding, performance and leisure sports centre in Baden. It has stables and runs a riding school. The yard hosts a season of competitions and offers children's courses and holiday riding camps, as well as rider badge exams.
The Hammerwiesenhof in Sigleß is home to a sport and therapeutic riding and vaulting club. It offers therapeutic and remedial-education sessions with horses, including for people with special needs. Riding lessons cover dressage, jumping and cross-country, alongside hacks of one to four hours. Vaulting is offered in groups and individually for children from age four, plus groundwork, lunging courses, Tellington training, camps and birthday parties.
Karins Pferdlerei is a small horse farm in Müllendorf run by Karin Lang with a herd of five horses. It offers riding lessons tailored to age and experience for beginners and advanced riders. Its riding-education work for children and young people builds trust, confidence and social skills. It also runs holiday and day camps, children's birthday parties and mental training with horses for adults.
Brandmajor Lovasudvar is a riding yard in Sopron, Hungary. It offers riding lessons, including a programme for young children, and trail rides. Carriage, wagon and sleigh rides are available, as are summer and autumn riding camps. The yard also offers horse boarding.
Rai-Reitschule Gehrer is a riding school in Neuberg an der Mürz teaching Rai riding, a bitless leisure and trail riding style. It offers riding lessons for children from six and for adults, including returning and nervous riders, and guided trail rides on school horses. The school also starts young horses, works with problem horses and runs courses and seminars on horse behaviour. Guest boxes and mobile lessons are available.
Pferde- und Ponyhof Wörth is a horse and pony farm in St. Georgen am Steinfelde, Lower Austria. It offers pony rides for small children, beginner courses for children from six, and riding lessons on its own horses and ponies. The farm runs riding holiday weeks and its own riding club, which holds Reiterpass and Reiternadel exams. It also offers boarding places in an open stable and runs a small beekeeping business.
Reitstall Mandl is a riding stable in the Almenland region of Styria with livery boxes and its own riding club. It offers riding lessons for beginners and advanced riders as well as training of horse and rider in dressage, show jumping and eventing up to class S. Services include schooling and correction of horses and starting young horses. The team includes state-certified dressage and show-jumping trainers and a vaulting instructor.
Pferdehof Rabenstein near Frohnleiten, Styria, is run by Bettina Holzer and focuses on riding education for children. It offers Reitpädagogik (FEBS), learning with horses, riding lessons and themed holiday days. Its Pferdestark programme combines riding education, concentration and mental training for children who struggle with reading, writing or arithmetic. The horses and ponies are kept in species-appropriate conditions on the farm.
Reithof Horse & Spirit is a riding yard in Seckau, Styria, that breeds and raises its own foals in a herd with plenty of turnout. It trains young horses through to sport horses, offers schooling and riding lessons, and brokers proven show jumpers. The yard is home to the Reitclub Murtal. It also runs awareness courses and an archery course on site.
Reiterranch Rodeo is a riding ranch in Singsdorf near Rottenmann, Styria. It offers riding lessons, groundwork, gymnastic schooling and circus lessons on its own horses, plus guided hacks along the Hufeisentour for riders with a Reiterpass. The facility has stables with boxes and an active stable, an outdoor arena, an indoor school and paddocks, and is linked to a riding club. The Pferdeblick-Hütte can be booked for holidays with your own horse.
Pferdetherapie Innerstetal is run by Melody Skawran, a licensed trainer in the Michael Geitner methods, based at Reitanlage Mahner Berg in Salzgitter. She offers equine physiotherapy with initial and follow-up treatments. She also trains horses and riders with Dual-Aktivierung and Equikinetic. Riders in competition and leisure riding can book individual lessons and courses on site or at their own yard.
Hacklhof is a family-run organic farm at 1260 m in the Lungau that breeds Icelandic horses. It offers qualified riding lessons in its own arena and trail rides on its sure-footed Icelandic horses. The farm also keeps dairy cattle and rents holiday apartments.
Feriendorf Ponyhof is a family-run holiday village in Fusch an der Großglocknerstraße in the Salzburg Alps. It keeps its own ponies and has an indoor riding arena, where riders from beginners to advanced can learn riding and horse handling under professional instruction. Guests can also bring their own horse and stable it in paddock boxes. The village additionally offers rooms, a wellness area, a petting zoo and a ski lift.
Equi-Excellence is the practice of equine vet and dressage rider Nina Luisa Höck, based in Bad Häring and serving Tyrol, Bavaria and Salzburg as a mobile horse practice. Veterinary services include general medicine, dentistry, internal medicine, orthopaedics and lameness work-ups, respiratory diagnostics and manual therapies such as chiropractic, physiotherapy and dry needling, and she works as an FEI official veterinarian at shows. Its riding facility, with an indoor arena, outdoor arena and round pen, offers dressage training, riding lessons, schooling and young-horse training. It also runs sport-horse rehabilitation with rehab stalls under veterinary supervision.
Lernen mit PS offers horse-assisted learning for children in Dornbirn and Frastanz, Vorarlberg. Founder Eva is a horse-assisted learning trainer for dyslexia and dyscalculia and a riding pedagogue. Programmes include learning training with horses, a horse play group for the youngest, and "Deutsch lernen bei den Pferden", which combines language lessons with riding and horse care. Riding lessons and holiday camps are also offered.
Reitstall St. Lukas is a dressage centre in Sulz im Wienerwald, run by Hans and Eva Riegler. Johann Riegler trained at the Spanish Riding School in Vienna from 1969 and rose to chief rider before passing on his experience to international sport riders and instructors since 2008. The yard focuses on classical dressage training aimed at keeping horses healthy through correct riding. Riegler has also published a book and an instructional film on the rider's seat.
Reit- und Therapiezentrum Regenbogen is a small family riding stable and integrative riding and vaulting club in Ternitz, Lower Austria. It offers riding lessons including lunge work, dressage, jumping, hacks and preparation for rider badges, plus guided pony rides. Vaulting is offered both as a sport and as therapeutic vaulting, alongside hippotherapy. The facility has an indoor arena, an outdoor arena, 17 boxes for school and guest horses and nine grass paddocks.
Dragahof is a family horse farm in Parndorf, Burgenland, run as an association for horse-assisted support since 2019. It offers horse-assisted coaching and training, including leadership training and team building for companies, youth coaching and stress and embodiment training. It also provides social-pedagogical support with horses for children, teenagers and adults with special needs, and Lolino riding pedagogy. Training courses in horse-assisted coaching are offered as well.
Golden View Ranch is a riding facility in the vineyards above Mörbisch with views over Lake Neusiedl. It is run by a state-certified western riding instructor and offers weekly riding courses, the Hufabzeichen and Western Riding Certificate, day rides and children's birthday parties. The stable has boxes for 16 horses, eight with their own paddock, and school horses live in an open stable. Boarding places are offered, with daily turnout for the horses.
Equi Novum is a small riding school in Maria-Anzbach near Vienna run by Mario and Katrin Bodendorfer. It teaches children of roughly 5 to 12 years in a playful setting without performance pressure, and runs a Mini Club for children aged 4 to 7. It also supports adult beginners and returning riders. Further offers include a horse summer camp, pony days, therapeutic special-needs riding and coaching.
Zuchtstall Zwinger is an agricultural horse-breeding farm on the edge of the Neusiedler See national park in Podersdorf. It offers carriage rides into the surrounding landscape, riding lessons, ride-along sessions and boarding for horses. Horses from its own breeding are occasionally offered for sale. The farm is also home to the Reit- und Fahrverein Podersdorf Edelgrund, founded in 2003, whose riders can start in competitions.
