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Riding schools

Lessons, instruction and schooling — find a yard to learn the ropes or bring a horse on.

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Marty Stables

Unter-Moos, 8630 Rüti ZH, Switzerland

Marty Stables is a training centre for horse and rider in Rüti ZH that teaches classical riding in the tradition of Manuel Jorge de Oliveira. It has a 20 x 40 m indoor arena, a 20 x 60 m outdoor arena, 35 boxes with paddocks, pastures and a riders' lounge. The programme includes the Escola training courses, weekend workshops, private lessons and schooling of horses. It also runs events, sells horses and has a shop for riding clothing and books.

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Freizeit Pferdehof

Voa Sporz 86, 7078 Lenzerheide, Switzerland

Freizeit Pferdehof in Lenzerheide offers carriage rides through the landscape with its two Noriker mares. It also gives private riding lessons on a sand arena, guided hacks and groundwork sessions. In summer, children from four to twelve can join mornings covering horse care and a first ride. The family also farms Dexter cattle on an organic mountain farm.

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Kinderreiten Felsberg

Taminserstrasse 125, 7012 Felsberg, Switzerland

Kinderreiten Felsberg teaches children to ride using the Hippolini concept on Icelandic horses and ponies. Courses range from a mini club for children from about four years old to three progressive Hippolini courses. Small groups learn handling, care, balance and riding at walk and trot. Lessons are given by Yvonne Nold, a Hippolini instructor and horse behaviour therapist.

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Zentrum für Mensch und Pferd

Neuheimweg 2, 6405 Küssnacht (SZ), Switzerland

Zentrum für Mensch und Pferd offers remedial and therapeutic riding for children, young people and adults, including people with disabilities, autism or learning difficulties. It also teaches riding based on the principles of classical horsemanship. For horses, it offers groundwork courses such as lungeing and gymnastics, as well as circus-style lessons. The centre is run by a qualified riding therapist and special-needs teacher.

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Engadin River Ranch

Via Suot 14, 7523 Madulain, Switzerland

Engadin River Ranch in Madulain offers guided rides in the Engadin, from short rides to day and multi-day tours. It also offers riding lessons for all levels, rides for small children, carriage rides and skijoring. Guests can use a hot pot, sauna and lounge for private events.

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Snjóka Islandpferdehof

Grafis, 7204 Untervaz, Switzerland

Snjóka Islandpferdehof is an Icelandic horse yard in Untervaz near the Rhine. Its riding school offers regular lessons, children's and youth riding camps, theme days and training on the oval track. The yard runs open stables for 18 horses and currently boards around ten livery horses alongside its own. It also takes in client horses for schooling and offers the basic horse-handling and gaited horse certificate courses.

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Rainbow-Ranch

Tschachen 1, 8866 Ziegelbrücke, Switzerland

Rainbow-Ranch is a pony and horse yard between Zurich and Chur near the Walensee, operating since 1999. It offers riding lessons, children's riding courses, trail rides, riding camps, pony camps, pony walks and pony birthday parties. The ranch runs preparation courses for the basic horse-handling diploma and offers riding therapy. It also provides horse boarding (Pferdepension).

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Gina Henny Mit Pferden tanzen

Hauptstrasse 1B, 7408 Tartar, Switzerland

Gina Henny runs a family yard in Cazis offering riding lessons based on classical principles, on site or mobile within 50 km. The yard boards up to 16 horses in group or individual turnout boxes, and stallions are welcome. Horses can be taken in for schooling and training. Weekend courses in classical riding are held regularly, some with invited instructors.

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SurTrekk

Planezzas, Casa, 7165 Tavanasa, Switzerland

SurTrekk (Surselva Pferdetrekking) offers guided horse rides and treks along the Vorderrhein in Graubünden. Riders use western saddles on calm, one-handed trained Criollo horses. Walks with a led horse are also possible for families with children. Beginners are welcome, and its programme includes summer trekking, winter rides, skijoring and moonlight rides.

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Pferdeplausch

Oberredlikonerstrasse 10, 8712 Stäfa, Switzerland

Pferdeplausch is a small riding and livery yard run by Sandra Zöbeli in Stäfa. It offers a riding school, trail rides and children's birthday parties with its ponies and horses. The yard also runs a boarding stable, which currently has no free places. Visitors can arrange to see the ponies, horses, stable and riding facility on site.

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Reiten & Yoga

Via Maistra 54, 7525 S-chanf, Switzerland

Reiten & Yoga organises riding holidays for adults that combine trail rides with yoga sessions designed for riders. Retreats run in the Engadin and the Jura as well as abroad, including Iceland, the Azores, Sicily, Morocco and Namibia. Rides without yoga and English-language rides are also offered, for beginners and experienced riders. The business was founded in 2014 by Catherine Lippuner.

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Stalla Chapella

Chapella 205, 7526 Cinuos-chel, Switzerland

Stalla Chapella is a riding, training and boarding stable in Cinuos-chel in the Upper Engadine, run by riding instructor Eva Baumann since 2017. It offers riding lessons based on natural horsemanship and classical dressage, lunge seat lessons, children's riding and family half-days with the horses. The stable also trains horses, takes boarders and hosts holidays with or without your own horse. An archery course is run alongside the stable.

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Anima-Reitkunst

Studenmatt 22, 6438 Ibach, Switzerland

Anima-Reitkunst is the riding instruction business of Ladina Cattaneo in Ibach, Schwyz. She teaches classical riding with a focus on balance, gymnastic training and healthy development of the horse. Services include private riding lessons at the client's own yard, groundwork and in-hand work, online lessons and holiday cover for horse owners.

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Stall Niderorn

Niederornstrasse 3, 8342 Wernetshausen, Switzerland

Stall Niderorn is a breeding and training yard on the Bachtel in the Zürcher Oberland, run by Evelyn Honegger. Boarded horses live in a herd on a mountain paddock trail with pastures. The yard starts and trains foals, young horses and adult horses, offers cow work and gives group lessons to boarders. It also breeds Quarter Horses.

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Hof Schürli

Schürli 1, 8496 Steg im Tösstal, Switzerland

Hof Schürli is a family-run horse boarding yard in Steg im Tösstal that has operated for 45 years. Horses are kept in a herd, with an emphasis on their social needs. The farm also cares for sick horses recovering on its summer pastures and runs an ethology school on horse keeping, training and feeding. A riding school operates from the yard, and the family also advises on building horse-appropriate stables.

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Reithof Staubli

Wührenbachstrasse 6, 8815 Horgenberg, Switzerland

Reithof Staubli is a training and schooling yard for Icelandic horses in Horgenberg near Zurich, run by Mara and Lisa Staubli. It offers riding lessons, horse training and correction, and children's lessons on its own Icelandic horses from about age four. The yard has an indoor arena, oval and pace tracks, boxes, paddocks and turnout stables for boarders. It breeds Icelandic horses in Switzerland and Iceland and has horses for sale.

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Stall Moser

Aeussere Altmatt 19, 6418 Rothenthurm, Switzerland

Stall Moser is a riding yard in Rothenthurm, Switzerland, run by show jumper Marco Moser. It offers horse boarding with daily mucking out and hay or haylage three times a day. The yard provides horse training and schooling, riding lessons and courses, and show jumping training with weekly new courses. Further services include horse management, competition support, a transport service and horses for sale.

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Schwärzi

Schwärzi 1, 8732 Neuhaus, Switzerland

Schwärzi is a family-run farm near Neuhaus run by Andrea and Adrian Wildhaber. Its horse business includes a boarding stable with 14 boxes with turnout, an all-weather area, large summer pastures and a half-covered arena. It runs a riding school, offers training for riders and horses, courses and riding camps, and breeds Quarter Horses. The farm also keeps suckler cows and sells beef directly.

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Soulmate's Horsemanship

7421 Masein, Switzerland

Soulmate's Horsemanship offers riding for children and adults in Masein, Graubünden. Its offers include riding lessons, a pony club, hacks and trekking. The approach focuses on learning to ride and work with horses fairly in a warm, safe setting. It is run by Selina Krummenacher.

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Hugener Pferdesport

Unterschluen, 6315 Alosen, Switzerland

Hugener Pferdesport is a show jumping yard in the Ägerital run by the Hugener family. Owner Andreas Hugener, a qualified Bereiter and competitive show jumper, produces young and inexperienced horses and presents them at shows. Riders bring their own horses for jumping lessons and training. The yard also breeds its own horses and rents boxes to owners who care for their horses themselves.

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Kohinoor's Place

9495 Triesen, LI

Kohinoor's Place in Triesen, Liechtenstein, offers horse-assisted therapy and therapeutic riding, which is listed in the EMR register of complementary medicine. It also gives freelance lessons in groundwork, leisure riding and western riding for riders with their own horse. Further services include on-site loading training, courses with international instructors and advice on stable construction. The yard runs an open stable (Offenstall).

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Reiterhof Romy

Göghhof, 7163 Andau, Austria

Reiterhof Romy is a riding yard with two stables in Andau and St. Andrä am Zicksee in the Neusiedler Seewinkel. Its riding school teaches classical English and western riding, riding pedagogy and integrative riding for beginners and advanced riders, including preparation for tests, tournaments and shows. Horse owners can board their horses at either site. The yard also runs riding camps, courses and workshops, ranch riding events, and trail rides into the national park and across the border to Hungary.

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reit-gut by Sophie Graf

Mühlgasse 32, 2513 Möllersdorf, Austria

reit-gut by Sophie Graf is a riding school in Möllersdorf run by owner Sophie Graf since 2017. It focuses on individual, personal instruction rather than a classic large school operation, with pupils grooming, saddling and caring for the horses before and after lessons. Lessons include lunge lessons, dressage, groundwork, jumping sessions and led pony rides, with points cards available. It also runs summer camps, intensive riding weeks and preparation for the Reiterpass and Reiternadel exams.

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Haflinger Heissenberger

7461 Stadtschlaining, Austria

Haflinger Heissenberger is a family-run Haflinger farm in Stadtschlaining in southern Burgenland. The family has bred Austrian Haflingers since 2015 as members of the Styrian breeding association and shows its horses at studbook inspections, performance tests and foal championships. It offers riding lessons on its Haflingers with preparation for the Reiterpass, Reiternadel and licence exams, as well as riding education for young children and carriage rides. Young horses and horses for sale are listed on the site.

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