Lessons, instruction and schooling — find a yard to learn the ropes or bring a horse on.
Zimbed Equines is the dressage training business of Tatjana Dillinger, based around Graz, Austria. She offers dressage lessons, mobile riding lessons, compact dressage training, dressage courses and online riding lessons. She also advises on buying horses. The business is named after her Lusitano stallion Zimbabue.
Leonardihof in Grub, Austria, is a riding stable, riding club and riding school operating since 1997. It offers livery in window boxes and 16 paddock boxes, with long daily turnout on pastures. Tobias Brodl and his team provide lessons for competition and leisure riders as well as full schooling and competition presentation of horses. The riding school runs summer camps, club shows, exams and birthday parties.
Pferdehof Spirit is a family-run horse farm in Gerasdorf, Austria, operating since 2009. It offers riding lessons for children and adults, starting with individual lessons and progressing to small groups of two to four riders and hacks. Each pupil rides their own share pony or horse, and riders can take badge exams up to the Reiterpass. The farm also offers therapeutic vaulting, horse-assisted education, pony rides, carriage driving, birthday parties and holiday camps.
Reitklub Wienerwald is a family-run riding stable in Breitenfurt near Vienna with a livery yard and a riding school. Its school horses include various riding ponies and warmbloods. It offers lessons for beginners and advanced riders of all ages, rider badge and competition preparation, dressage and jumping courses, pony weeks and theory lessons. Boarders can get instruction up to class M, competition support and schooling, and horses can also be hired monthly.
Lusitano-Gestüt Quinta do Sol is a Lusitano stud in Mariatrost, Graz, describing itself as Austria's first Lusitano breeding operation. It breeds Lusitanos and keeps several breeding stallions that are also available to outside mares of any breed. The stud brokers and sells horses, offers riding lessons and courses, and runs a riding and boarding stable.
BB-Ranch is a riding facility at the foot of the Schöckl in Gutenberg, Styria, run by Barbara and Bernhard Bauer. It offers training for horses in Western, dressage and jumping, and riding lessons on school horses, ponies or the rider's own horse. Courses, further training and trail rides in the surrounding countryside are also offered. A pony club teaches children and teenagers to handle horses, and the ranch takes in boarding horses.
Reitstall Rath is a show jumping and training stable in Kaindorf near Hartberg, Styria, founded in 1982. The facility has an indoor arena, a large outdoor arena, boxes and paddocks. It teaches riders from beginners to competition riders, with lunge lessons, dressage and jumping lessons, courses, children's camps and rental horses. The stable also offers schooling, boarding and loading training, works with the Parelli system, and trains and sells horses from leisure to competition level.
Reit- & Voltigiersportverein Golden Spirit is a riding and vaulting club in Unterrohr, Austria. It runs vaulting groups for children and youth, from beginner minis to a performance group, with weekly training sessions. Its Golden Spirit Academy offers individual riding lessons from pony beginners to advanced levels. The club also offers horse training, including mobile schooling, starting young horses, correction of problem horses and online coaching.
Bio- und Pferdehof Stockner is an organic horse farm in Fladnitz an der Teichalm in the Almenland nature park, Austria. Riding lessons are given on school horses through the on-site riding operation, and the farm has its own riding club. The family breeds New Forest ponies and takes in boarding horses. Holiday flats are also available on the farm.
Ganzheitliches Pferdeerlebnis is a riding school in Stripfing in the Marchfeld region of Austria. It offers riding lessons for children. Lessons are given on Icelandic horses.
MB-Ranch (MB-Trainingstable) is a horse yard in Sommerein, Austria, run by Sabine Schmidt. It offers horse boarding with paddock boxes and outdoor boxes, all-day turnout, hay feeding in the paddock and individual feeding, and welcomes horses with allergies. Lessons are offered in western and English riding as well as for leisure riders, and the site also lists courses and horses for sale.
Pferde Glücksmomente is a pony and riding school in Krimml in the Oberpinzgau region of Austria, describing itself as the first Team Pony school in Austria. It teaches children from a young age to handle and ride ponies using the Team Pony Concept, and offers riding lessons and hacks for children and adults. Guided trail rides take riders through streams, forests and mountain terrain. A certified learning trainer offers horse-assisted learning sessions for children, and the yard also runs a small horse breeding programme.
Unterlanzin riding stables is an equestrian centre in Kastelruth / Castelrotto in South Tyrol, run by Reinhold and Miriam. It keeps Haflinger and Quarter mix horses and offers group and one-to-one riding lessons in a fenced arena. Guided rides of half an hour up to a full day go around Kastelruth and the Seiser Alm / Alpe di Siusi, for beginners and advanced riders. Boxes are available by the month, and a bar on site serves refreshments in season.
Alpenranch Himmelreich is a riding ranch on the Ritten plateau near Bolzano, South Tyrol, run by the Tauferer family. It offers riding lessons for beginners and advanced riders all year round, open to day visitors as well as guests. Guided half-day and full-day rides and trekking tours explore the Ritten, and children can take a trial lesson covering horse care and first riding. The ranch also lets holiday apartments.
Reiterbauernhof Gfreinhof is a riding farm in Hafling near Meran, South Tyrol, run by Sandra and Peter. It keeps twelve Haflinger horses. The riding programme covers lungeing, pony rides, private lessons, group lessons and trail rides into the surrounding countryside. Guests can also join stable tours and help groom and untack the horses, and the farm lets holiday apartments.
Katharina Mair offers integrative animal-assisted education with horses in South Tyrol. Programmes are tailored to age groups, from mothers with toddlers to children, teenagers and adults, plus individual sessions. She also gives riding lessons and trains horses, including Equikinetic and Dualaktivierung work after Michael Geitner.
Gstatschhof is a farm with a pony and horse ranch on the Seiser Alm above Kastelruth in South Tyrol. It offers basic and advanced riding courses, half-day and full-day rides, hacks, pony trekking, led pony rides and grooming courses. Riders also get theory lessons. The farm also lets holiday apartments.
Dr. Charlotte Wagner runs a training centre for classical riding art in Gschnitz, Austria, combining horse training with medical knowledge. She has worked in horse training for over 25 years, including with horses that show problem behaviour or difficult physical conditions. Horses can stay for training for a chosen period or be boarded permanently in the open-stable group. She teaches riders with their own horses in single sessions, full days or intensive days and weeks, with holiday flats available on site.
Haflinger Telser is a family-run Haflinger breeding farm, the Tröghof, in Laas in South Tyrol's Vinschgau. The family has bred Haflingers for more than 30 years, runs a stallion station with licensed stallions and trains horses. Horses are offered for sale, and riding lessons are given for children and adults. The farm also lets two holiday apartments.
Haflinger Royal is a purebred Haflinger breeding operation run by Katja Müller at the Schloss Baslan stud in Tscherms, South Tyrol. It stands Haflinger stallions at its covering station and breeds from its own mare herd, with home-bred horses carrying the suffix Royal. Young horses are reared in a herd on about two hectares, and horses are prepared for shows and licensing. The business also cares for livery horses, markets horses for sale and runs a riding school with its Haflingers for children and adults.
Alps Coliseum is a horse training centre in Neumarkt, South Tyrol, specialising in reining and Icelandic horses. A team of three trainers offers individual training for riders and horses, Beritt, corrective training, young-horse education and competition preparation. Its riding school Reitzauber gives lessons for children and adults on school horses. The facility rents its arena, offers guest boxes for visiting horses and hosts events and shows with over 137 boxes and a 45 x 75 m hall.
Flachenhof is a mountain farm on the Ritten in South Tyrol run by the Rottensteiner family, with its own riding horses and ponies kept in an open stable. Julia Rottensteiner, a qualified riding instructor and trail-ride leader, gives riding lessons for all ages, trail rides, summer weeks and Team Pony Concept sessions. The farm also offers groundwork, children's riding and winter riding. Holiday apartments are available for guests.
Ponyhof Hasental is a pony farm in Ampass near Innsbruck. Families hire a pony and an adult leads it on a roughly 45-minute ride through woods and meadows after being shown how to handle it. The farm also organises children's birthday parties with pony riding and campfire grilling. Visits are in the afternoon by phone appointment.
Reiterhof Warger is a small family-run riding farm about 4 km outside Nauders in the Tyrolean Oberland, built in 2010. Its horses are mainly Haflingers, most of them bred on the farm. It offers guided individual and group trail rides, led riding in the arena for children and beginners, and carriage and sleigh rides including night sleigh rides and a wedding carriage. Trail riders must be at least 12 and confident in walk, trot and canter.
