Lessons, instruction and schooling — find a yard to learn the ropes or bring a horse on.
Andrea Pilch offers riding lessons and horse experiences for children and adults in Graz. Her riding kindergarten (FEBS) introduces children aged 3 to 10 to ponies in small groups. She also gives holistic riding lessons for beginners, leisure and competition riders and offers competition support. She is a federally certified riding-pedagogy instructor and a dressage rider herself.
Ponyspass offers pony experiences for children at its farm in Edelsbach bei Feldbach. A session includes getting to know the pony, brushing, saddling, feeding and a 30-minute ride. The focus is on riding pedagogy, with courses where children learn to handle ponies without performance pressure. It also provides pony rides at events and children's birthday parties.
Lernviereck near Graz offers pony play sessions for children aged 2 to 6, including grooming, leading and guided riding. Children from age 5 can take a pony and horse basics course covering handling, care and how to sit on a horse. It also runs learning and play-based training and resilience training with the horse as co-trainer, plus parent-child sessions, summer camps and birthday parties. Sessions take place mainly at the riding arena year-round.
Reiterhof Barbara Koth is a riding farm near Hartberg in Styria run by riding and social pedagogue Barbara Koth. It offers riding lessons and individual pedagogical sessions with horses that combine riding pedagogy with social pedagogy. Sessions are tailored to the age and needs of each person, and riding is not always required. The farm also hosts events.
Horse Heaven MM is a riding operation at the Falkensteiner Resort Punta Skala near Petrcane, Croatia, run by a German couple. It offers riding for children from age 3 and for adults, carriage rides, beach rides, swimming with horses and photo shoots. The owners previously bred Pura Raza Española horses in Germany and have experience in classical and academic riding, horsemanship, carriage driving and long-rein work.
Gestüt Wisperndorf is a horse stud north of Bad St. Leonhard in the upper Lavanttal focused on Haflinger breeding. It keeps breeding mares, young horses and sport horses, and a licensed stallion stands at the stud for the 2026 season. The farm also offers livery, horse training and riding lessons, and lists horses for sale. It is run by Andreas and Daniela Zettl, both active in riding and driving competition.
Pferdehof Kulmland is a horse farm in Gersdorf an der Feistritz offering horse boarding, including open-stable places, and horse training. Individual riding lessons are given, and the surroundings are used for hacks and forest rides with the farm's horses. The farm breeds Haflingers, Norikers, Austrian Warmbloods, Trakehners and riding ponies, and lists horses for sale. It also holds monthly activities such as groundwork and loading training.
Reitschule Schraut is a riding school in Lower Austria teaching beginners and advanced riders of all ages. It offers dressage and jumping lessons, vaulting, lunge seat lessons and guided or accompanied hacks on its school horses. Beginner sessions are one-to-one and group lessons are capped at three riders. The school also runs camps, events and birthdays, accompanies riders to shows, and is moving to the Ebreichspark in Ebreichsdorf from September 2026.
Reitschule Isabella Swoboda is a riding school in Baden run by Isabella Swoboda, a trained Pferdewirt and riding instructor. Beginners learn the basics and handling of the horse in individual lunge lessons from age seven. Advanced riders can take group lessons with at most two riders or 30-minute private lessons. The school also runs summer camps and introduces its own horses on the site.
Einfach. Doppel. is run by Anna Doppel in Finkenstein am Faaker See and combines coaching with work alongside horses. It offers horse-assisted interventions for adults, children and teenagers, as well as supervision and team coaching. Riding lessons are given on its own horses and ponies in groups of at most three, with much riding without a saddle. Shared riding arrangements and holiday camps are also offered.
MG-Pferdetransport is a horse transport service run by Moritz Gloor and Gaby Wilhelm in Bonaduz, Switzerland. The team draws on decades of experience as show jumping and dressage riders and runs a small breeding operation in the Allgäu, importing its own horses into Switzerland. Besides transport, it offers regular riding lessons in the arena, on the jumping course and cross-country. The site also has a shop and lists horses for sale.
Reitstall Reischach is a riding stable in Reischach near Bruneck in the Puster Valley, run by Karin and Madeleine. It offers a riding school with lessons, trail rides and led pony rides for children, as well as livery for horse owners. The team helps with ridability problems through groundwork and equipment checks and starts young horses under saddle. Small-group equine-assisted education supports children with topics such as learning difficulties, including children with disabilities. Karin also works as an osteopath and physiotherapist for horses and dogs.
Reiterhof Grasspeinten is a family-run riding farm in Pfalzen in the Puster Valley, South Tyrol. It offers lunge lessons, riding courses, badge preparation, trail rides, vaulting and led riding for small children. The farm takes in boarding horses in a stable built in 2011, where every box has its own paddock and the horses have daily group turnout on a large pasture. An indoor arena and an outdoor riding area allow work in all weathers. The family also lets holiday flats on the farm.
Reitschule Priska Kelderer is a riding school in Kaltern, South Tyrol, based at the GeorgsTurm equestrian facility in Oberplanitzing. Priska Kelderer is a riding instructor and horse trainer with over 20 years of experience with horses. She teaches western riding to children from age 8, teenagers and adults, with lunge and group lessons offered year-round. She also trains horses and prepares riders for competitions.
Reitschule Tolderhof is a riding school in Olang (Mitterolang) in South Tyrol with more than 25 years of experience. It offers group lessons, lunge lessons for beginners, and private or small-group lessons in dressage and jumping. Trail rides, carriage driving and led rides for children are also offered. Beginner packages and 10-lesson blocks are available, with reduced prices for guests of the associated Hotel Post Tolderhof.
Überetscher Reitverein is an amateur riding club in Eppan, South Tyrol, founded in 1983 on the edge of the Montiggler forest. Its grounds include a clubhouse, five open stables, a large and a small arena, a round pen, short-term rental boxes with paddocks, a horse wash and a mountain trail. Members ride leisure, western, dressage and endurance. The club's riding school offers individual and group lessons for children and adults, trail rides, courses and summer camps.
Bodnerhof is a family-run farm in Prags in the Dolomites that combines agriculture with a riding operation. It offers guided trail rides, private rides for individuals or couples and individually planned riding tours in the Prags valley. Riding lessons are given to children, teenagers and adults in small groups or one-to-one, focused on leisure riding fundamentals rather than competition. Lunge lessons are also offered.
Haflinger-Reiten is a riding yard at the Gasthof Edelweiss in Jenesien, South Tyrol, dedicated to the Haflinger breed. It offers riding lessons for beginners and advanced riders in the English style, trail rides from one hour to a full day, and led pony rounds. Horse-drawn carriage rides run in summer, with sleigh and carriage rides in winter, including trips to an alpine hut. The yard's school horses are all Haflingers, several of which also work in harness.
Austrian Star Horses is a riding facility in Bad Blumau in the Styrian thermal region. It runs a riding school with qualified trainers for beginners and advanced riders, preparation courses for riding badges and exams, and summer camps. Facilities include a jumping ground, dressage arena, indoor arena and horse walker. Boarding is offered in renovated boxes with paddock or window, or in an open stable, with a waiting list.
Reitstall Wagner is a family-run riding stable near Stegersbach in southern Burgenland and home of the 1st Burgenland Riding Club Stegersbach. It offers riding lessons all year for beginners, advanced, leisure and competition riders, plus courses leading to riding badges and summer riding camps for children and young people. Other services include boarding, horse schooling, pony rides, day rides and carriage rides. The facility has an indoor arena, a 40 x 60 m sand dressage arena and paddocks, with around 20 horses stabled.
Ponyhof Körblereck is a pony farm and riding stable in Jennersdorf, Burgenland. It runs a riding school offering riding lessons. The yard also offers boarding for privately owned horses. It describes its horse keeping as species-appropriate with a respectful approach to the animals.
Bio-Pferdehof Fabian is an organic horse farm in southern Burgenland. It runs riding weeks for children several times a year, where each child is given a care horse and learns groundwork, lunge lessons, tack care and stable work. It offers stabling for trail riders on a daily basis and for long-term boarders, with use of paddocks, a covered round pen and a riding arena included. The farm also hosts children's birthday parties with pony rides and lets guest rooms.
Dalvero is a drugstore in Abstetten, Lower Austria, that has supplied herbal remedies and supplements for horse and rider since 2003. It offers individual lessons in classical Spanish riding (Doma Alta Escuela) for riders of all levels on their own horses, working up to high-school movements such as piaffe and passage. It also helps buyers find sale horses through contacts with breeders. Olive oil from its own Andalusian finca and colloidal products are sold alongside.
Sigrid Engelmann offers mobile riding instruction in the Neulengbach, Tullnerfeld and St. Poelten area of Lower Austria, coming to clients' own stables at any training level. Her teaching focuses on groundwork and in-hand work, correct lunging, riding lessons built on that basis and gymnastic work for gaited horses. She also offers horse training (Beritt) and one- and two-day workshops for groups of three to six participants. Her approach emphasises step-by-step training without pressure and positive reinforcement.
