Lessons, instruction and schooling — find a yard to learn the ropes or bring a horse on.
Bowlers Riding School in Formby, Merseyside has taught riding since 1941. It offers group and private lessons from age 3, holiday activities, parties, Pony Club and RDA. It has around 40 horses, some on livery, an indoor school and a floodlit outdoor school.
McNab Riding School teaches basic horsemanship and riding to all ages. It offers lesson packages from beginners to competition riders in dressage, jumping and games, a Saturday membership program, camps and birthday parties. It has an indoor riding facility, an outdoor sand ring and trails.
SFR Equestrian is a hunter/jumper facility on 40 acres in North Gower near Ottawa. Led by head coach Maeve Rowe, it offers riding academy lessons for ages 7 and up, boarding and leasing, training and competing, and day camps. It also offers equine-assisted learning and trail rides.
Ashdown Riding is a riding school and hacking centre on Lower Misbourne Farm in the Ashdown Forest. It has taught riders for over 40 years. It offers lessons for ages 4 and up from beginner to advanced, including side saddle, and hacks on the forest.
Ranch des Baous is a five-hectare equestrian centre near Tourrettes-sur-Loup in the Pré-Alpes d'Azur. It offers lessons for all levels in small groups, including dressage, show jumping, cross country and groundwork, and treks from the property. It offers paddock livery with shelters and hay. A wooden cabin for two can also be rented.
Faith Training Center is a horse boarding and training stable 20 minutes south of South Bend, Indiana. It offers boarding with daily feeding, stall care and turnout, plus horse training, riding lessons, clinics and sales and leases. The owners live on site.
Meg Dunne Training is a hunter/jumper barn in Tualatin near Portland, Oregon. It offers private and group lessons for all levels, a show team competing at rated shows, and full boarding with an indoor arena and grass turnout. It also runs its own shows, camps, pony parties and sales.
Poney-club Arc-en-ciel is a non-profit pony club in Thuillies, Belgium. It offers riding lessons for children aged 6 to 14 and adults, equimotricity sessions and courses, taught by Adeps-certified instructors.
Moray RDA is a Riding for the Disabled group meeting at Cranloch Riding Centre outside Elgin. Young people and adults with individual needs learn to ride and care for ponies in sessions run by trained RDA coaches.
Harmony N Horsemanship in the Adelaide Hills and Barossa region is run by Justin and Christina. It offers riding lessons for all levels, horse training, working equitation and clinics.
Breach Lane Equestrian is a livery yard and training centre in Wiltshire. It offers livery services, lessons with instructor Mallory, and clinics and camps.
Wicklow Equestrian Centre is on 55 acres of woodland near Roundwood in the Wicklow Mountains. It offers lessons for adults and children, a saddle club, pony camps, BHS training and livery. Activities include forest jumping, show jumping, trekking and dressage.
Top Flight Equestrian is an equestrian shop based at Warrington Riding School near Kilkenny. It stocks riding equipment, clothing and footwear from brands such as Samshield, Ariat, Pikeur and Kingsland. The riding school is a working equestrian centre.
Ladestown Riding Stables near Mullingar, Co. Westmeath, is a family run AIRE approved riding school. It offers lessons for beginners and intermediate riders and horse and pony trekking seven days a week. It also runs a pony camp.
Culleen Equestrian is an equestrian centre in Ireland with a riding school. Its jumping and dressage arenas can be booked online. It aims to let horses live as natural an existence as possible.
Ecuries de la Seyne is an equestrian farm in Arnèke, Flanders. It offers riding as a leisure activity through its club and year-round programme. The farm also keeps ponies, donkeys and other animals.
Kellystown Riding School in the foothills of the Dublin Mountains opened in 1999. It provides group and private lessons from beginner to advanced, pony camps and children's birthday parties. Instructors are qualified to at least BHS AI level.
Green Glen Farm near Kinburn in the Ottawa Valley is owned by Fiona Henderson. It offers indoor and outdoor board, lessons for all levels in jumping and dressage, and natural horsemanship training. Leases and training and backing of green horses are also available.
Fenland Equestrian Centre offers riding lessons for all ages and levels, progression tests and birthday parties. It provides equine therapy for children with special educational needs. It hosts shows and qualifiers and hires out its facilities.
Lakeside Riding Centre offers off-road hacks on the 5000-acre Worstead Estate near North Walsham, Norfolk. It specialises in hacks for intermediate and experienced riders and also welcomes beginners. The shortest ride is a 1.5 hour hack.
Doyle's Equestrian Centre is an approved facility in Rathvilly on the Carlow/Wicklow border. It offers lessons and pony camps, show jumping, livery and a tack shop.
Weston Equestrian Centre is an equestrian centre and training yard near Norwich run by the Conyers family. It offers a riding school, summer camps, pony parties and a riding club. It also has broodmares, youngstock and horses for sale, and holiday cottages.
MPM Equestrian is a riding centre in Rathvilly, Co. Carlow. It offers lessons and trekking for all ages and levels, holiday pony camps, livery for horses and ponies, and breaking and schooling.
Queenswood Stables is on 50 acres in Navan, east of Ottawa, established in 1978. It offers dressage, jumping and equitation lessons and clinics, training, full service boarding and horses for sale. It runs schooling shows and has a show team.
