Lessons, instruction and schooling — find a yard to learn the ropes or bring a horse on.
Bowlings Riding Centre near Haverfordwest is a family-run riding school and livery established over 45 years ago. It has an indoor arena, an outdoor school, hacking and a cross country course. It is the RDA centre for Pembrokeshire and runs a centre member Pony Club.
Folly Farm Equestrian Centre in Yaxley, Peterborough, runs a 5-star rated riding school and pony club. It offers full and working livery, clinics, training boot camps, and backing and schooling.
Top Ten Ranch Quarter Horse is a western riding centre in Bosc-Renoult-en-Ouche in the Eure for adult riders. It offers western riding lessons, cattle clinics, horse boarding in an American barn, equine insemination, training and horse sales.
Le Moulin du Goutay in Fromental, Limousin is an equestrian centre and riding club with horses and ponies. It offers riding lessons, rides, holiday camps and boarding for horses and ponies. It also has gîtes and guest rooms.
Adam Sutton is a horse trainer based in the Lower Hunter Valley, NSW. He starts horses of all breeds, runs an off-the-track racehorse education program and gives clinics and lessons in several states. He also sells training content and equipment online.
JB Equestrian in the Southern Highlands of NSW is run by an EA Level 1 general coach. It offers riding lessons, clinics and limited horse training. Mobile home visits provide horse care advice, training and lessons at clients' properties.
Hancock Horsemanship is based in Teviotville in Queensland's Scenic Rim, led by horseman Donal Hancock. It offers horse starting, advanced education, competition and cow horse training, personalised lessons and clinics. It also provides theatrical equine entertainment and arena hire.
King Andrews Rider Training is led by Rochelle King Andrews and Greg Andrews. It offers online dressage courses through a membership, coaching lessons and clinics. It also runs an online rider community and a shop.
Geoff Willis is a horse trainer and riding instructor in the Ladysmith area with 40 years of breaking in and re-educating horses. He offers horse training, clinics and riding lessons for children and adults. Lessons and clinics cover stockwork, basic dressage, western, show jumping and campdrafting.
Better Together Therapy Riding Centre near Mullingar provides equine-assisted activities, therapeutic riding and learning for children and adults. It offers one-on-one and group sessions and serves school groups and adult service organisations. It has an outdoor arena and horses chosen for therapeutic riding, supported by volunteers.
Ranch Made In The USA is a western riding centre on 136 hectares on the Millevaches plateau in Corrèze. It offers western riding lessons, stays, cattle sorting, clinics, competitions and a mountain trail course. It breeds Quarter Horses alongside Angus cattle and offers field and stable boarding.
Orchid Stables near Ballinagore is run by Ruth Robinson, an HSI national performance coach. It offers showjumping, dressage and cross country coaching and clinics for riders on their own horses, from pony club to international level. A stay, train and stable option lets riders bring their horses and stay in an on-site apartment.
Hunterfield Riding School is a small owner-run yard on the Kilduff House Estate near Haddington, East Lothian. It offers private, group and lunge lessons, half and full day courses and children's events. Riders must be at least 8 years old and within a height and weight limit.
Equus Riding Centre in Moray has provided riding lessons since 2008. It offers group, semi-private and private lessons in an all-weather outdoor school. Riders can also go on forest hacks in Roseisle Forest and beach rides, and children can join a Saturday club.
Edenside Stables is a family-run riding school near St Andrews, Fife, founded over 45 years ago by Raymond Gatherum and now run by his son Alistair. It offers group, semi-private and private lessons for new and returning riders. It also trains horses and runs show jumping competitions through the year.
North Sannox Pony Trekking is a family-run trekking centre on a hill sheep farm on the Isle of Arran, established in 1981. It offers paddock rides for young children and treks of half an hour to two hours. It is approved by the Trekking and Riding Society of Scotland.
Chapelton Equestrian Centre is a BHS approved riding school and livery yard in Muir of Ord, Ross-shire, near Inverness. It offers lessons for beginners to advanced riders from age four, including disabled riders. Stable management lessons and gift vouchers are also available.
Boswell Equestrian Centre is an equestrian facility in Co. Wicklow, Ireland, opened in 2005. It runs a riding school with group lessons and trekking, livery and arena hire for training and competitions. It also has a tack shop and a feed shop and hosts events.
Ecuries des Bleugniès is a western riding stable in Lecelles in the north of France. It offers livery including for broodmares, lessons for children and adults, and reining training. It also breeds and sells horses and stands the Quarter Horse stallion Uncle Sparky.
Coloured Cob Equestrian Centre in Nottinghamshire is a 5-star licensed, ABRS Highly Commended riding school. It offers riding lessons for beginners to advanced riders, pony trekking, pony club, pony parties and disabled pony riding.
Barnsley Riding for the Disabled Association is a riding school and stables in Barnsley. It offers riding for disabled people with horses suitable for complete beginners.
Woodside Riding School is a riding school and livery yard in Bestwood Country Park, Nottingham. It teaches all ages and abilities in group, private and semi-private lessons, with two all-weather floodlit schools.
Kirkfields Equestrian Centre in Lower Blidworth near Mansfield offers riding lessons for experienced and novice riders. It also hosts corporate events.
Wardhaugh Farm Riding Centre near Huntly, Aberdeenshire, was established in 2007 by two BHS registered instructors. It is approved by the Association of British Riding Schools and is a Pony Club Centre, teaching riders from age 3. It runs holiday camps and loan-a-pony days and offers livery from grass to full.
