Lessons, instruction and schooling — find a yard to learn the ropes or bring a horse on.
Heartland Horse Farm is a 142 acre property in the Southern Highlands of NSW founded by Daniel and Debbie Dickson. It offers full-care agistment, spelling, horse leasing, riding lessons and training. It has over 30 paddocks and trails on the property.
Kimberley Park offers horse riding between Gerringong and Berry on the NSW south coast. Its horses are trained using natural horsemanship. It offers relaxing rides and lessons for beginners, experienced riders and horse owners.
Sutton Farm Equestrian Centre in Sutton Forest, NSW, has stables, indoor and outdoor arenas and a round yard. It offers riding lessons including jump coaching, kids day camps, clinics, agistment and arena hire. The farm also hosts weddings and events.
Shibumi Equestrian Centre is on 95 acres near Bundanoon, NSW. It offers agistment and spelling, arena hire and riding lessons with an Equestrian Australia accredited coach. It also runs fun days and clinics.
Litchfield Equestrian in Arborfield, Berkshire, has been owned and managed by Gemma Cleary since 2000. It offers part livery packages seven days a week with turnout, feeding, mucking out and rug changing. Facilities include a horse walker and solarium, with hacking on farmland and bridleways. Lessons and events are also listed.
Quiet Company Farm is a 25 acre private stable in Grandview, PEI. Its main services are riding lessons and boarding, with lessons taught by owner Kelly Snowdon. Facilities include a 16 stall barn, two outdoor rings, an indoor arena, trails, a round pen and jumps.
Anne Currie is a freelance riding and horsemanship coach based north of Glasgow who teaches riders with their own horses at their premises across Central Scotland. Her teaching uses Centered Riding techniques and empathic horsemanship based on equitation science and classical principles. She offers individual, shared and group lessons as well as unmounted courses and workshops.
Berkshire Horses is an equestrian centre at Herons Farm with horses and ponies for riding lessons and private tuition. Riders can use the arena or hack through fields, woodland and private gallops. It also offers pony days, children's birthday parties on horseback, riding holidays and bed and breakfast.
Gairloch Trekking Centre near Red Point, Gairloch offers pony trekking on the Red Point beaches on native horses and ponies. It also offers lessons, lead-rein walk-outs and kids riding breaks and stable days. It is open from Easter to October.
Highland Group RDA is a volunteer-run charity at Sandycroft, Reelig near Kirkhill providing therapeutic and recreational riding for people with disabilities since 1975. Sessions run Tuesday to Friday mornings with qualified coaches and trained volunteers. It is a member of the national Riding for the Disabled Association.
Whole Horse Solutions on the Isle of Skye is run by equine behaviourist Iona Augier. It offers behaviour consultations, riding lessons, stable management tuition, residential schooling and starting young horses. Lessons can take place at Portree Livery yard or at the client's premises.
Longsight Tack Shop and Riding School near Blackburn is a family business since 1997. Its shop sells rider clothing, horse rugs, boots, horse care products, tack and stable equipment. It also runs a riding school.
Braeside Equestrian Centre in St Margaret's at Cliffe near Dover is a small riding school. It offers mainly one-to-one tuition for all standards, Pony Stars, Challenge Awards and BHS stage 1 and 2 training, plus Pony Club and livery. It is a BHS approved centre.
Black Pearl Horses in Gunning, NSW offers horsemanship lessons, clinics and coaching. It provides full-time and part-time training and starting of horses, agistment and stud services. It breeds young stock and sells young horses.
Reinhill Ranch is a western riding centre on a former dairy farm in Athis-Val-de-Rouvre, Orne, run by Cécile Mahé. It offers lessons and courses for all levels, training and breaking of horses, rides and horses for sale. Livery options include field, box and livery with breaking.
Parkside Stables in Alfreton, Derbyshire is a five-star rated, family-run riding school and livery yard. It offers group and private lessons from age 3, stable management, show jumping, Pony Club, parties and Riding for the Disabled. Facilities include indoor and floodlit outdoor arenas.
College Farm Equestrian Centre in West Markham, Nottinghamshire is home to Markham Dressage, run by BHS instructor and British Dressage trainer Vikki Hayton. It offers dressage coaching, BHS exam training, full, schooling and DIY livery, and backing of young horses.
Howden Equestrian Centre near Goole, East Yorkshire is a BHS Highly Commended and ABRS+ approved riding school. It offers private, semi-private and small group lessons from age 3, RDA sessions, a mechanical horse and BHS training up to stage 4.
Normanby Park Riding School near Scunthorpe offers private and group riding lessons from age 2, including flatwork and jumping, plus hacking. It has two outdoor arenas and a small covered arena. It holds a 5-star licence and has a café.
Willow's Leap is an equestrian training facility in the Wollombi Valley in the Hunter Valley, New South Wales. It offers cross country, show jumping and flat work lessons, horse training and spelling agistment. It also has farmstay accommodation.
Clarity Equine at Double M Farms in Miscouche, Prince Edward Island, offers private and group riding lessons. It also offers equine-assisted psychotherapy, an adaptive skill-building program, farm camps and respite support.
Natural Touch Therapy Institute is a private post-secondary school with campuses in Alberta and Saskatchewan. It runs certificate programmes in equine sport therapy, equine massage, equine manual osteopathic therapy and saddle fitting. It also offers a canine massage therapist programme.
New Tunnel Hill Farm near Blisworth, Northampton, is a family-run working farm with a riding school that has been on site for over 30 years. It is an ABRS member and Pony Club centre. It offers DIY, full, part and competition livery, hacking and backing and schooling.
Cottage Farm Stables in Earlswood, Solihull, is a licensed riding centre for riders from beginners to advanced. It also offers stable management sessions and has an onsite café and bakery.
