Lessons, instruction and schooling — find a yard to learn the ropes or bring a horse on.
Écuries des 3 Monts is a family riding centre and educational farm at Saint-Sylvestre-Cappel near Steenvoorde and Hazebrouck. It teaches riding to adults and children from age 4, with pony club, baby club and vaulting. It also offers several livery options with access to its riding facilities.
Ecuries Descamps is an FFE-affiliated equestrian centre in Nomain, northern France. It offers pony and horse lessons, summer riding camps and part-loans on its club ponies and horses. Livery is available, and owners can use the indoor schools and outdoor arenas. The centre hosts amateur, pony and young horse show jumping competitions.
Poney-club Jules Verne is a small pony club in the centre of Marck with about twenty ponies and horses. It offers riding with qualified instructors, rides, discovery sessions and birthday parties. During school holidays it runs a day centre where children learn about ponies and ride.
Les Écuries de la Lawe is a riding centre at La Couture near Béthune. Its state-qualified instructors teach riders of all levels, from first pony rides to FFE exams and competition. It offers livery for horses and ponies in stables or at grass, as well as part-livery, courses and birthday events.
Yara Balba Stables is an equestrian centre on a 56-acre farm at Mandalong in NSW. It runs training days and specialist clinics for riders with their own horses, including dressage, showjumping and working equitation. Facilities include a covered arena, a grassed showjump arena, a fitness track and a cross-country course. The property also offers art classes and accommodation.
Hunter Valley Equestrian Centre is a 100-acre property at Black Hill near Newcastle run by owner and coach Shaun France. It offers dressage training, private lessons and clinics, agistment and coach training. Facilities include an indoor floodlit dressage arena, which can also be hired, and rider accommodation.
Coast Kids Horse Riding and Party Ponies is based at Wyee on the NSW Central Coast. It offers riding lessons for all ages and abilities with experienced instructors. It also runs holiday programs, horsemanship courses on handling ponies on the ground, adopt-a-pony days and party ponies.
The Saddle Camp runs residential horse riding camps on a 168-acre property. Campers are given a horse or pony to care for and ride during their stay. Activities include trail rides, bareback riding, driving a horse and cart, games on horseback, dressage tests and show jumping. The site also lists day rides, riding lessons and parties.
Inner Circle Equestrian is an equestrian yard in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales aimed at amateur horse owners. It offers agistment, riding lessons, horse training and competition support. Its focus is supporting riders who keep horses alongside work and family life.
Moor Farm Stables is a riding school at Corley Moor between Coventry and Birmingham, run by Liz White and operating since 1969. It is approved by the British Horse Society, the Association of British Riding Schools and Riding for the Disabled, and is a Pony Club Centre. It has over 50 horses and ponies and offers group and private lessons, hacks, fun days, camps and career training.
Normandy West Horse is a western riding school near Sainte-Mère-Église in Normandy. It offers lessons in reining, trail, cutting, horsemanship and showmanship. It also provides livery with paddock turnout, and starting and schooling of young horses.
Aberconwy Equestrian Centre is a family-run riding school in Conwy, North Wales, established in 1993. Its instructors are BHS qualified and it is an ABRS approved riding centre and livery yard. It offers full and DIY livery with indoor and outdoor schools, and arena hire.
American Horse Passion is a riding centre in Baisieux near Mons, Belgium. It is a western and classical riding school approved by the LEWB. It also offers livery, training and breaking-in, and breeding.
Tipi Ranch is a western riding and mountain trail ranch at Montrabot in Normandy. Since 2016 it has offered active-stable livery with horses living in a herd. It runs a riding school with lessons and courses and breeds Quarter Horses.
Kinshaldy Riding Stables is in Tentsmuir Forest, Fife. It offers private and small group riding lessons in an outdoor arena, led pony rides and hacks through the forest for all abilities.
Les Chevaux du Causse near Lentillac du Causse in the Lot breeds Pintabian and DSA horses and stands a stallion. It offers pony walks and guided rides from one hour to longer trips. It also takes horses at livery with training and breaking.
Scholland Equestrian in Fife offers full, part and DIY livery, training, breaking in and schooling. Liveries can take lessons from resident instructors and visiting trainers. It has an all-weather floodlit arena and large stables, and lists clinics, a pony club, horses for sale and stallions at stud.
North Harbor Equestrian Center in Gig Harbor is an adult equestrian facility managed by Sabrina Duncan. It offers an adult lesson program and a relational horse training program. Boarding is available only to horses enrolled in training.
Bad Rock Boarding and Arena is an equestrian boarding and training facility in Columbia Falls, Montana. Owner Shaun Sorensen handles training, lessons, event scheduling, boarding and shoeing. Facilities include outdoor and indoor arenas, a round pen, paddocks and a trail course.
Reichert Performance Horses is a family-run training barn on 20 acres in Holt, Florida. It provides horse training, riding lessons from beginner to advanced, show coaching, summer camps, clinics and judging. Its horses have won titles in events from halter to reining.
TopLine Equine is a riding school and Pony Club Centre in Mollington, Chester. It offers riding lessons for children, teens and adults, with a tiered progress pathway, private coaching and pony experiences. It also runs beach ride experiences.
Claire Affleck Training is a USHJA recognized riding academy with locations in Auburn, New York and Morriston, Florida. Claire develops horses and coaches students to compete at local and national levels. The site lists sales horses and a show schedule.
Swan Training is a riding academy at Whip n' Spur Farm in Wilsonville, Oregon. It offers riding lessons from beginner to advanced, full training and boarding, rehabilitation, horse sales and leasing, and a competitive riding team. It attends hunter and jumper shows across the Northwest and Canada.
CR Horsemanship near Leduc, Alberta offers riding lessons, lesson horses, leasing, boarding and horse training. Coach Celine Roy starts and restarts horses, specializing in ponies and warmbloods. It also runs summer camps and clinics and manages Mystic Meadows Equine Centre.
