Lessons, instruction and schooling — find a yard to learn the ropes or bring a horse on.
Islandpferde Babenberg is an Icelandic horse yard in Klosterneuburg-Weidling, Lower Austria. It runs a riding school with semester courses, Easter and summer riding camps, and Icelandic horse riding certificate courses. The yard also offers horses for sale. Its facilities include paddocks and an oval track.
Greenranch am Schönlehenhof is a small family-run western riding yard in the Melk foothills of Lower Austria. It offers riding lessons on its western horses and ponies for children and adults, from lunge lessons to relaxed trail rides. The yard also offers boarding for horses. Guest rooms and an apartment are available for visitors.
Reiterhof Großmotten is a family-run riding yard in Großmotten near Gföhl in the Waldviertel. It offers riding lessons for beginners and advanced riders of all ages, including grooming and leading before lessons. Advanced riders can go on hacks in the surrounding countryside, and the yard plans away training and rider badge exams. It also offers livery in an open stable, paddock boxes and boxes with turnout, with hay available around the clock.
Little's Ranch is a family horse farm in Blindenmarkt in the Mostviertel, run by Brigitte and Rudolf Kudilek since 2005. It offers livery with turnout and daily care for boarded horses. Brigitte, a certified riding instructor, gives riding lessons in western riding for young and old. The farm also keeps other animals, including White Shepherd dogs.
MedGene Sporthorses is a riding club and riding school in Vitkovce near Topolcany, Slovakia, teaching children and adults from beginner to advanced level. The yard offers livery in a brick stable with individual boxes, daily turnout, hay and bedding. Professional dressage and show-jumping training sessions are available for riders with sporting ambitions. It also sells young horses in training and experienced competition horses, mostly from its own breeding. Facilities include an indoor arena, an outdoor arena, paddocks and pastures.
Storchenhorstranch is a horse ranch in the Marchfeld area of Lower Austria. It boards horses in paddocks and an open stable, matching each horse to a suitable place. Riders without their own horse can take part in a ride-share arrangement or book individual riding lessons. Trail rides, including accompanied rides and overnight stays for riding tours, are available by arrangement.
Reitverein Paddock is a riding club in Laa an der Thaya working on the basis of Natural Horsemanship Team (NHT) methods. It offers riding lessons in dressage, cavaletti work and jumping on ponies and full-size horses, plus preparation for the Reiterpass and Reiternadel. NHT lessons and courses are available for children and adults, beginners and advanced riders, with school horses or their own horse. Weekend courses and a leadership programme with horses are also offered.
Civic association in Marianka offering riding lessons and horse livery. It works mainly with children from age three. Horses are kept in open group housing. The grounds are also rented for parties and team events, with pony rides available.
Koníky pre deti is a civic association offering riding and horse boarding in Mariánka, Slovakia. It focuses on working with young children from age 3, mainly on ponies of various sizes, with an emphasis on partnership between rider and horse. Its horses live in open group housing with free movement. It also runs summer camps and rents its grounds for events with pony rides.
Jazdecká škola Bernolákovo is a riding club with a riding school in Bernolákovo, Slovakia. It teaches riding from the basics and can prepare riders for a licence. The yard offers horse boarding, horse rental for riders of all levels and horses for sale. It also runs summer riding camps for children.
Reitgut Schloss Niederabsdorf is a riding estate in the Weinviertel, about 40 minutes from Vienna. It runs a riding school with individual and group lessons in dressage and jumping on school horses or the rider's own horse, and prepares riders for badges, the Reiterpass and R1 licence. Horses can be boarded in open stables or large boxes with daily paddock turnout. Facilities include a 26x60m indoor arena, a 50x40m outdoor arena, a round pen and a children's arena, and there are programmes for children.
Reitverein Florianihof is a long-standing family-run riding club in Zeiselmauer, Lower Austria. It offers riding lessons and children's camps for young and older riders. The yard also takes in horses belonging to owners. The team emphasises the wellbeing of the animals and a friendly, family atmosphere.
Sognohof is a non-profit association in Vienna's 22nd district promoting species-appropriate animal keeping. It offers gentle riding lessons for children and adults, fear-free riding, holiday camps for children and birthday parties. It also provides psychotherapy and occupational therapy with horses, adult coaching and farm yoga. The horses live in an open stable as a herd, go barefoot and are fed organic Austrian hay.
The Schottenhof is a centre for animal-assisted pedagogy with integrative riding and vaulting on the edge of Vienna. Its offers are built around working with horses, including riding lessons, sport vaulting, therapy and team training. It serves children and adults with and without disabilities and runs projects for schools and kindergartens. The centre also offers training courses in its field.
Ursula Kasinger is a Vienna-based riding instructor teaching in the classical-baroque tradition. She is a licensed classical-baroque trainer of the Bundesverband für klassisch-barocke Reiterei. She coaches ambitious leisure riders with their own horses across many breeds, including Iberian horses, Icelandics, Arabians and Haflingers. Her lessons combine theory with feel for the horse and focus on a well-gymnasticised horse.
Gut Breitfeld is a family-run leisure facility in Erla, now in its second generation. Its riding section offers horse boarding, a riding school with lessons and jump training, and hosts riding tournaments. The site also offers tennis, squash and a restaurant.
Nußbaumergut is a family-run horse farm in St. Marien, Upper Austria, run by Brigitta and Thorsten Immler. It offers riding pedagogy and a pony club for children, as well as children's birthday parties with the horses. The farm also provides carriage rides, horse logging and herb walks accompanied by a pony. Horse training is part of its services. Visits are by appointment only.
Reitergut Weissenhof is a family-run Reiterhof on a traditional Upper Austrian four-sided farm in Micheldorf near Kirchdorf an der Krems. The farm has kept horses since 1929 and has a stable, paddock, an indoor riding hall and an outdoor arena. It offers riding lessons on ponies and warmbloods and riding holidays. The farm also runs an inn and guest rooms for visitors.
Gut Radauer is a family-run riding facility in Zell am Moos near Irrsee and Mondsee, about 27 km from Salzburg. It has several outdoor arenas and an insulated indoor hall, with trained school horses for riders from beginners to competitors. Riding lessons are given by Gerlinde Radauer, a state-certified riding instructor, and vaulting is offered for children. The farm also breeds horses and lets holiday apartments beside its paddocks.
Schaflerhof is a riding stable in Leobendorf, Austria, offering box and open-stable livery, riding lessons and trail rides. Facilities include sand and granulate arenas, a jumping field, an indoor hall and a roundpen. Western and classical riding are both taught.
Reiterhof Sandjago is a riding yard in Rapoltendorf, Lower Austria, with five training horses, a riding instructor and a horsemanship trainer. It offers individual lessons, dressage and jumping, groundwork, calmness training and circus lessons for horses. Horse-assisted individual coaching and group trainings are also available. The yard runs courses and events such as Circle Games seminars and a horse sport and games tournament.
Pony, Pferd & Du offers equine-assisted education (Reitpaedagogik) for children from age two and a half in Erlaa, Lower Austria. It is run by Nadine Gira, an early-years educator and certified riding pedagogue, together with her pony Cini Mini. Courses of five one-hour sessions teach children to handle ponies on the ground and in the saddle in groups of up to four. Further offers include horse-assisted learning sessions and holiday adventure days.
Fair zum Pferd is run by Sarah Simon, a horse trainer and riding instructor in Lower Austria. She trains horses following classical and academic riding principles with a focus on horse welfare. As a qualified Centered Riding instructor (Level 1) she teaches riders to develop a balanced seat. She also offers fascia massage and fascia training for horses to support mobility and stability.
Westernstall Niederschleinz is a western riding stable in Niederschleinz, Austria, run by Julia Knoll. It teaches western riding including pleasure, reining, horsemanship and trail, with single lessons for beginners and weekly group lessons by semester. Groundwork, gymnastic and muscle-building work, courses, trail rides and schooling of horses are also offered. Vaulting is taught from age six through the associated Westernreitverein Niederschleinz.
