Lessons, instruction and schooling — find a yard to learn the ropes or bring a horse on.
Belfairs Riding School is in Belfairs Woods, Leigh-on-Sea. It offers riding lessons and rides to children and adults of all abilities, including children's block and holiday lessons and private rides. All lessons and rides take place in the woods.
Marvens Riding Stables is a family-run riding centre in Wickham Bishops, Essex. It offers group and private riding lessons for all abilities from age 4, pony mornings and children's birthday parties. It also provides livery services and has three sand arenas.
Termonn Stables is an 8.7 acre property in Yorktown Heights, New York, with two barns, paddocks and an outdoor ring. It offers riding lessons for ages 7 and up on school horses and ponies, full-care board, horsemanship classes, training programs and monthly clinics. It also runs a summer day camp.
Willow Hill Farm in Keeseville, New York, is a full service equestrian center. It offers riding lessons, summer camps, boarding and training, and breeding and sales. Lessons focus on horsemanship, dressage, stadium jumping and cross country.
Charlotte Equestrian Center is a 38 stall hunter/jumper barn and training facility in Charlotte, Vermont. It offers a lesson program, full board and training, and showing. Owner and trainer Ashley Gallison leads the team.
Chatham Equestrian Center is a horse boarding and training facility in Chatham, Columbia County, New York. It offers boarding, lessons, training and sales.
Lea Bank Equestrian Centre was established in 1998. It offers riding lessons, summer camps, boarding, horse training and horse sales. Other services listed include horse therapy, hauling and theory.
Island Wide Equestrian is a boarding facility in Winsloe, Prince Edward Island. It offers personalised training and riding lessons. It also runs summer camps.
Kinsale Equestrian Centre in Co. Cork consists of a riding school and livery yard. It offers horse riding lessons for children from age 5 and adults, pony trekking and summer camps. It also hosts groups and parties.
Ballyleigh Riding School has offered riding lessons since 2009. It welcomes riders of different ages and abilities, from first-timers to improvers. It also runs pony camps and events and offers livery.
Barrow Farm RDA is a registered charity offering riding and carriage driving for disabled people. It gives children and adults with complex needs the chance to enjoy activities with horses and ponies. It relies on volunteers, donations and pony sponsorship.
Wild Rose Stables is a hunter/jumper equestrian center with a 44 stall barn on 50 acres in Webster, Minnesota. It offers boarding, training, lessons, leases and sales. A lesson horse program serves beginner riders.
Canterbury Stables is a dressage and hunter/jumper facility on 225 acres outside Cazenovia, New York. It has a heated barn for year-round riding. It offers lessons, training, boarding and clinics.
Meadowbrook Stables in Chevy Chase, Maryland, offers group riding and horsemanship lessons in hunters, hunt seat equitation and jumpers for riders aged 6 to adult. It also runs summer camps and offers boarding, leasing and showing. The stables are operated by the nonprofit Meadowbrook Foundation.
On Course Riding Academy in northern New Jersey offers boarding, training and lessons run by Katie Moriarty. Boarding includes matted stalls and use of outdoor rings and a heated indoor arena. It also hosts horse show series and has horses for sale.
Johnna Stables is an equestrian center in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. It offers matted stalls for boarding and trainers for hunter/jumper and AQHA/APHA events. It runs young horse development, Quarter Horse and Paint training, and riding lessons from first-time to advanced riders.
Mongon Farms, formerly Emerald Valley Stables, is a 35-acre horse facility. It offers full-care boarding and training with over 30 stalls and indoor and outdoor arenas. It also trains students in riding and horse care.
Haras de Cazeau near Tournai is a non-profit that offers hippotherapy sessions and 'riding differently' sessions. Group and individual sessions aim to help children and adults build confidence. The associated Ferme Hurette rents a group lodge and reception room.
Fairbanks Stable is a boarding and training barn in Schoharie County, New York, established in 2005. It offers full board, training board, retirement and rehab board, private and group lessons, clinics and shows. It also breeds horses aimed at adult amateur riders.
Burnt Feather Farms is a 120-acre farm in Mexico, New York. It specialises in horse boarding, lessons, sales and training across disciplines from dressage and western riding to colt starting and driving. It also attends horse shows.
Country Lane Farm is a hunter jumper training facility in Ladner, British Columbia. It runs show stables with boarding, a riding school with lessons, camps and a rider levels programme, and leasing and sales. It also hosts shows including a winter show series.
Whitchurch Equestrian is a riding school and summer day camp on 10 acres east of Newmarket, Ontario. It offers English riding lessons for children, teens and adults for recreation or showing. Open houses let visitors meet the horses and watch a lesson.
Stony Pine Farm is a 37-acre farm in New Durham, New Hampshire with a seven-stall barn. It offers beginner and intermediate private riding lessons, kids and adult camps, and horse boarding. The trainer, Michaela, also starts and restarts horses.
Sunnydale Stables is a family-owned horse farm in North Bay, Ontario. It offers riding lessons for all ages and levels, camps, trail rides and parties. Community programmes give more families hands-on time with horses.
