Lessons, instruction and schooling — find a yard to learn the ropes or bring a horse on.
Hillside Meadows Equestrian Center is a training and boarding facility on 70 acres in Grafton, Massachusetts. It offers hunter/jumper, reining and horsemanship programmes for all levels. The facility hosts rated and schooling shows and keeps a fleet of school horses.
Evergreen Stables Equestrian Center is a family-run teaching stable in Scottsville, New York. It offers weekly Western horsemanship and ranch-style riding lessons, mainly for adults and riders aged nine and older. Boarding is also available.
Painted Bar Stables near Watkins Glen, New York is a riding facility offering year-round guided trail rides, lessons, leasing and full care boarding. It also runs camps, clinics and team-building workshops with horses. Breeding services include a stallion at stud and custom foals.
Aldie Equestrian Center in Aldie, Virginia is a full service facility offering boarding, training and lessons. It welcomes hunters, jumpers, dressage and eventing. Facilities include indoor and outdoor rings, cross country jumps, stall and field board, and turnout options.
Black Ridge Farm in Middletown, New York offers boarding, lessons and training, showing and camp programmes. Head trainer Brittany Cooper and assistant trainer Susan O'Driscoll coach riders in hunters, jumpers and equitation. Lesson horses and horses for sale or lease are listed.
Walnut Grove Farm is owned by trainer Beth Walkowicz near Buffalo, New York. It offers riding lessons and horse training, including starting horses off the track. The farm hosts boarders and students in eventing, dressage and hunters, as well as a Pony Club and IEA teams.
Pine Haven Stables in Colborne, Ontario offers riding lessons, boarding and training, psychotherapy sessions and summer camps. Boarders have access to indoor and outdoor arenas, hacking trails and a half-mile racetrack. One lesson a month is included with boarding packages.
Willow Grove Stables is an equestrian facility in Foothills, Alberta specialising in hunter, jumper, equitation and three-day eventing. It offers riding lessons, training, coaching and boarding, plus summer camps and horses for sale. It is also a training facility for developing coaches.
Summer Breeze Stables in Milton, Pennsylvania offers horse riding lessons, summer riding camps and two annual horse shows. It provides year-round boarding and training with year-round arenas. Staff include instructors and trainers.
Lake House Stables is a hunter jumper equestrian facility on over 110 acres in Durham Region, Ontario. It offers boarding, a riding lesson academy, camps, and horses for sale, lease and part board. Showing on the Trillium and A circuits, clipping and trailering are also offered.
Vermont Icelandic Horse Farm in the Mad River Valley offers trail rides and multi-day riding treks on Icelandic horses. It also offers horse sales, training and boarding, lessons, and new and used tack. Lodging is available alongside the riding.
Hitching Post Farm sits on 75 acres in South Royalton, Vermont. It offers boarding, training, lessons and eventing for riders of all levels. The farm hosts a USEA horse trial, schooling horse trials and event-oriented summer camps. Private and group lessons are available year round on lesson horses or the rider's own horse.
Lazy Acres Equines is a training and lesson facility in Brandon, Vermont. It specialises in foundation horse training using traditional and natural techniques. It teaches riders from beginners to experienced students and lists horses for sale and lease.
Haras du Lannoy is an equestrian centre in Ennevelin, south of Lille, set on a 6-hectare site with two covered arenas, outdoor arenas, a lunging ring, paddocks and pastures. Affiliated with the French Equestrian Federation, it offers riding lessons and coaching for all levels in dressage, show jumping, cross-country and trail riding. It provides box and outdoor livery for horses and ponies, equestrian tourism training, and the starting, schooling and sale of horses and ponies. The yard also breeds Lusitano horses.
Agro Leuener is a family-run farm in Sennwald in the St. Gallen Rhine Valley that switched to horse keeping in 2014. Its focus is horse breeding and species-appropriate horse boarding on 60 hectares surrounded by pasture and riding country. It grows feed for the boarded horses on its own land. The farm also runs a riding school for children and offers agricultural trading and winter services.
Reitsport Urbani is a riding facility in St. Stefan, Austria, open Monday to Saturday all year. Its riding school teaches beginners and competition riders, with lunge lessons, group lessons and private lessons. It regularly runs courses and exams for the Reiterpass, Reiternadel and riding licence. The yard also schools young horses and offers boarding for privately owned horses.
Haflingerhof Halbwachs is a family-run horse yard in Kitzeck, Austria, operated as a horse club. It offers riding lessons for children and adults, rider camps with hacks and meals, half-day trail rides and full activity days. Children can also celebrate birthdays with the horses. The yard keeps ponies, Haflingers, warmbloods and a Noriker, and the family has worked with horses since 1990.
Reitschule Hoffmann was opened by Ludwig Hoffmann in 1973 in Fernitz near Graz, and the Reitclub Auhof-Fernitz followed in 1975. The riding school teaches beginners to advanced riders in groups on school horses suited to all ages and levels. Horse owners can keep their horses at livery, with schooling, lessons and competition coaching in dressage and jumping. The facility hosts dressage shows and championships in Styria.
Reitstall Wrumnig is a riding yard in Klagenfurt-Harbach led by show jumper Nicole Wrumnig. Its riding school uses well-trained school horses for dressage and jumping lessons for beginners and advanced riders, with group hacks, vaulting and led pony rides. It also offers riding for people with disabilities and hippotherapy. The yard holds regular exams for the Reiterpass, Reiternadel and licence and runs summer riding weeks.
Stall Gratzi is a family-run riding yard at the foot of the Josefsberg in the southern Lavanttal, Carinthia, now in its second generation. It offers lessons on school horses, including lunge lessons, seat lessons, private lessons and small-group dressage and jumping lessons. Riders with their own horses can take competition coaching. The yard also provides livery, horse training, competition sport and horses for sale.
Family Ranch Frankenau is a horse centre in Frankenau in central Burgenland, run by sisters Jenny and Jasmin. It has an indoor arena and an outdoor arena and offers riding lessons on the lunge or in the arena, pony walks, guided hacks, day and trail rides, and activities for kindergartens and schools. It runs multi-day riding camps and PferdeZeit programmes, horse training, therapy offers and livery for private horses. Guest horse boxes and trail guides are available for rides into the vineyards and across the border into Hungary.
Pferdehof Auer is a horse yard in Ponigl in the municipality of Thannhausen, about 10 minutes from Weiz. It offers riding lessons in dressage, jumping and hacking, groundwork and theory, sold as single sessions or 5- and 10-lesson courses. It provides riding pedagogy for children from age four and, since spring 2024, inclusive horse-assisted pedagogy. The yard also offers livery and is home to the Reitverein Thannhausen.
Reitgut Kronberghof is a riding facility in Kronberg near Wolkersdorf, just north of Vienna. It runs a riding school for children, young riders, returners and adults, starting on the lunge and continuing in small groups of up to five or in private lessons. Lessons take place in a 15 x 30 m indoor arena or on outdoor arenas. The yard also offers livery with well-equipped boxes and free choice of trainer for boarders, and has a riding club.
Reitstall Jöbstl is a family-run riding yard in Obervogau in the southern Styrian Mur meadows, operating since 1986. It offers riding lessons for beginners and advanced riders with a focus on show jumping, plus training for the Reiterpass and Reiternadel. The yard has 50 livery places with full care, a lunging hall, a 20 x 50 m indoor arena and two sand arenas used for competitions. It also trains apprentices as equine workers.
