Lessons, instruction and schooling — find a yard to learn the ropes or bring a horse on.
Reitstall Knobel is a riding, breeding and training yard in Reichenburg run by Jsabella Knobel. It offers riding lessons, a basic riding training course and riding holidays. The yard also provides livery for privately owned horses. The team competes in show jumping and publishes its competition results.
Konjeniški klub Giovanni is a riding club and riding school in Peč near Grosuplje, a few kilometres from Ljubljana. It offers riding lessons for children and adults every day of the week. The club runs summer riding camps, horse birthday parties, riding holidays, exam preparation, competitions and horse hire. Lessons are given by riding instructors licensed by the Slovenian Equestrian Federation.
Kobilarna Lipica in Slovenia is the home stud of the Lipizzaner breed, keeping more than 400 white Lipizzaners on over 300 hectares. Its breeding tradition is inscribed on UNESCO's list of intangible cultural heritage. Visitors can watch training sessions and performances of the Lipica riding school, take guided tours, carriage rides and riding. The stud also sells horses and hosts equestrian competitions on its racecourse.
Hubhof - Moschinger is a family farm in Oberndorf an der Melk, Lower Austria, where Ramona Moschinger offers riding pedagogy and therapeutic riding for children, young people and adults. Horses also come to the farm for training, from young horses being started under saddle to horses that need more confidence, with groundwork as the foundation. The farm offers training places to develop calm leisure horses or therapy horses, as well as day courses at the client's own stable.
Karinthia Welshpony is a small Welsh Pony Section C breeding operation on an organic farm near Lake Faak in Carinthia, Austria. The breeding mares live in open stabling with plenty of turnout, and foals stay with their dams for up to a year before joining young-horse groups. The farm stands stud stallions and offers ponies for sale. It also provides riding lessons and courses such as natural horsemanship and seat training, with its Welsh ponies and Cobs available as course horses.
Reitstall Bürki is a family-run riding stable in Oberdiessbach, Switzerland, established in 1976 by Hans and Susanne Bürki and taken over by Daniel Bürki in 2014. The riding school offers private and group lessons in show jumping and dressage, lunge lessons, guided hacks, competition accompaniment and preparation for the Brevet and licence. The yard also provides livery boarding and training of horses (Pension und Beritt). It regularly has leisure and sport horses for sale.
Ranč Pelance is a riding school and riding club near Most na Soči in the Soča valley, Slovenia. It runs beginner and advanced riding courses that prepare riders for the Jahač 1 exam. Children can start with short pony sessions from age three, and there are workshops, summer riding camps and birthday parties with horses. Guided trail rides lead through nearby forests and to the Soča river.
Pferde.at is a Vienna family business led by Gregor Zehetner that works with horses daily. It runs a farrier service covering all aspects of hoof care and trains farrier apprentices. A carriage driving school offers courses, qualifications and training in driving. The business also operates Fiaker carriage rides from several stands in central Vienna.
Islandpferdehof Obergiem near Feldbach is an Icelandic horse farm offering riding lessons on trained school horses in individual and group sessions. It also runs weekend trail rides for advanced riders, riding pedagogy for children and vaulting lessons. Throughout the year it holds courses, holiday camps, theme days, workshops and birthday events for children, teenagers and adults.
WesternReitCenter Lobau is a western riding centre in Groß-Enzersdorf, at the edge of the Lobau nature reserve near Vienna. It boards horses in boxes with turnout, paddock boxes and open stabling, and takes guest horses by the day. Lessons and schooling are offered for riders from beginners to specialised competitors. The team has experience in keeping, breeding, care and training of horses.
Auszeit-Hof Südburgenland is a riding school run by Margit Triebl in Neuhaus am Klausenbach, Austria. It teaches children, teenagers and adults to ride with individual guidance and without performance pressure. For horse owners it offers weekly training sessions combined with craniosacral work for the horse. Craniosacral sessions and mental training for people are also offered.
Reitclub Quinta do Sol is a riding facility in Graz-Mariatrost, Austria, run by two Lusitano enthusiasts. They have bred Lusitano horses since 2002. The yard offers boarding in stable boxes, outdoor boxes and boxes with paddock, with hay, concentrate feed and daily turnout included. Riding lessons on Lusitanos are given on site.
Reitstall Roubal is a riding stable in Pischelsdorf, Austria. It offers full-care horse boarding, training of horse and rider including Beritt, dressage lessons, jumping training and lungeing, as well as mobile lessons. Courses cover jumping, lungeing, groundwork, desensitisation and loading training. The stable also offers riding shares and sells horses, and advises on buying and selling a horse.
Reiterhof Gruber is a family-run riding yard in Pressbaum, Austria, run by Melanie and Franz Gruber. It offers pony riding, carriage rides and boarding for horses. The yard keeps its own ponies and horses, which are introduced on its team page.
Konjeniški Klub Karlo is a riding club with a riding school above Maribor, Slovenia. It offers riding lessons for beginners and children, individual riding, show-jumping training, exams and licences, and competitions. Short pony sessions are offered for the youngest riders, along with horse hire and trail riding in nature for visitors and groups. The club has more than 100 members and runs summer riding camps.
Reitstall Pikl is a riding and vaulting stable in Graz-St. Peter. State-certified riding and vaulting instructors teach children and adults in group and private lessons. Vaulting is offered for children from the age of four. The stable runs riding weeks for children, and its horses go out to pasture daily with trail riding available nearby.
Konjeniško društvo Pesnica is a riding association on a farm in Pesnica pri Mariboru, Slovenia. Its instructors give riding lessons in the arena, take experienced riders out on trail rides and run riding camps and equestrian games. Founder Jože Frajzman is a riding instructor licensed for dressage, show jumping and equitation. The farm also keeps a mini zoo with donkeys, llamas and other animals.
Konjeniški klub Strmol is a riding club in Rogatec, Slovenia, located in a landscape park near Donačka gora. The club runs a riding school, prepares riders for competition licences and offers dressage training and guided rides. It also provides therapeutic riding, summer camps, educational events and celebrations. Riding trails around the area are part of its offer.
Haflingerhof Gams is a riding farm in Gams near Landl in the Gesäuse National Park region of Styria. It is a licensed riding school of the Austrian equestrian federation, with lessons taught by Claudia Gsellmann. The farm offers riding lessons in dressage and jumping for beginners and advanced riders, lunge lessons, guided trail rides and multi-day trekking rides. It also runs courses, birthday parties for children and a summer camp for kids.
Reitunterricht Bachler Tobias is a riding coaching business near Graz in Styria run by Tobias and Claudia Bachler. Tobias Bachler is a licensed riding instructor who teaches dressage, show jumping and eventing and prepares riders for competitions. The business offers lessons at its own stable as well as mobile courses at the yards of clients. Services also include starting and training young horses, correcting difficult horses and helping horses return to work after injury, and the site lists a breeding stallion.
Islandpferdehof Mooskirchen is an Icelandic horse farm in Mooskirchen, Styria, run by Monika and Karo Wenzel. It offers riding lessons for beginners, advanced and competition riders, including instruction in the tölt and pace gaits, classical dressage, vaulting and integrative riding. The farm hosts clinics with guest trainers, trail rides and riding camps for children, and has an oval track, an indoor arena and a round pen. It also provides short-term boarding, training of client horses, a stallion station, young horse rearing and sales of leisure and competition horses.
Ponyseidank in Greisdorf near Graz offers riding pedagogy for children from two years old and riding lessons. It also offers learning coaching with horses and riding pedagogy for children with special needs, as well as training in riding pedagogy. The owner, a trained riding pedagogue and riding therapist, also runs horse-assisted coaching for adults and companies under the Spiegelpferd name.
Kühberger Ponyhof is a pony farm in Hengsberg south of Graz focused on children. It offers FEBS riding-pedagogy sessions that introduce children aged 3 to 10 to ponies in groups of four. The farm also hosts children's birthday parties with pony grooming and riding. The team consists of several qualified riding-pedagogy instructors.
Reitanlage Lukashof is a riding facility in St. Margarethen an der Raab welcoming riders of all disciplines and levels. It runs a riding school with qualified school horses. Riders with their own horses can take dressage and jumping lessons. The livery yard feeds horses with forage from its own production.
