Lessons, instruction and schooling — find a yard to learn the ropes or bring a horse on.
Horse Center Austria is a riding school offering lessons for children and adults. Its services include riding lessons, horse training, competition support, video analysis and marketing of clients' horses. It also runs an associated club with memberships, experience days and themed pony birthday parties.
Reitschule Dörfl is a small riding school in the Wienerwald with direct access to the local bridleway network. It offers individual and group lessons, lunge lessons, pony rides, guided hacks and holiday camps. Lessons are tailored to each rider and include grooming before the ride and caring for the horse afterwards. The school's horses live in an open stable for most of the year.
Westernstar HD Schulz (H & D Schulz Quarter Horses) is a Quarter Horse yard in Wiener Neustadt. It stands breeding stallions and offers insemination as well as shipped chilled and frozen semen. Sale horses include all-round and leisure horses, reining and futurity prospects, and foals. The yard also offers livery, training, courses and lessons, and hosts events, with a western riding accessories shop on site.
Islandpferdeverein Hestabyli is an Icelandic horse club on a family farm in Felixdorf, Lower Austria. It offers specialised riding instruction for gaited-horse riders, with courses for young children, beginners and advanced riders. Seasonal camps in summer, autumn, winter and at Easter, and clinics with external trainers, are also offered. The horses are kept in open stabling in small groups.
Reit- u. Fahrverein Donau-Auen is a riding and driving club with its own yard in the Lobau area of Vienna. It offers riding lessons in dressage and on the lunge on its school horses, starting from the age of eight. Riders groom, bridle and saddle their horse before each lesson to learn correct handling from the ground up. Theory sessions on saddlery, arena figures and horse handling are held regularly, and membership is not required for lessons.
Reit- Fahr- u. Voltigierverein St. Johann is a riding, driving and vaulting club based at the Reitstall St. Johann in Ternitz. It offers riding lessons for beginners and advanced riders, vaulting for children and young people, and lessons on the lunge. Instruction covers dressage, show jumping and hacking, and the club prepares riders for tests and competitions. Club life includes events, group rides, shows and celebrations.
Reitstall Lehner is a riding stable in Hetzmannsdorf near Korneuburg, about 20 minutes from Vienna. It offers boarding in inner boxes, paddock boxes and open stables, with daily turnout, hay three times a day and arena maintenance included. Boarders can choose their own trainers, and the yard hosts dressage, jumping and Parelli courses. It also offers children's riding, riding pedagogy and vaulting led by qualified instructors.
Stefanie Stumpf is a riding instructor in Kirchstetten, Lower Austria, working in classical riding. She gives individual classical lessons for beginners to advanced riders, including show and exam preparation. She also offers seat and movement training, classical in-hand work, groundwork, pole and cavaletti work, and schooling of horses. Her training approach includes biotensegral horse training.
Pferdehof Königbauer is a family-run riding farm near Mariazell in Styria, Austria. It offers riding lessons by phone appointment. Each summer it runs riding exams, camps and children's afternoons around the horse. The farm has its own riding club, Reitverein Mariazellerland, through which riders can take badges and the rider's pass.
Reiterhof Edtbauer is a family-run riding farm above Weyer in Upper Austria. It offers riding lessons for beginners and advanced riders all year, both as courses and for day guests. For more than 30 years it has run supervised riding weeks for children and teens aged about 8 to 17, and it hosts school classes. The farm keeps 18 Haflingers and has an indoor arena, a dressage arena, a jumping ground and large paddocks.
Isabella Bognermayr is a Parelli Professional horsemanship trainer working with horse and rider pairs at the SISU training centre in Haag, Austria, and at courses across Europe. She trains horses in residence over several weeks or months, including young horse starting, groundwork, behaviour issues and corrective work, with owners receiving regular lessons. Her teaching covers horse psychology, liberty, seat training, classical dressage, trailer loading and competition nerves. She also runs a 12-month masterclass course and intensive training days.
Reiterbauernhof Schartner is a riding farm in Altaussee. It offers pony-led rides for small children, lunge lessons for beginners, and qualified riding lessons and trail rides for advanced riders. The farm breeds riding ponies, from Austrian ponies to full-size riding ponies and sport Haflingers, and sells young horses. It also offers animal-assisted sessions and holiday flats.
SaGaRaBi is a small, child-friendly horse business on the southern edge of Linz, based at Stall Kiener in St. Florian. It offers riding-education sessions, holistic riding lessons in the GRIPS and Centered Riding approaches, and parent-and-child riding. Horse-assisted programmes also cover sensorimotor perception training and learning support. The team works with a small group of Haflinger, Icelandic and mixed-breed horses.
Almtal-Ponys is a small farm on the Alm river in Vorchdorf where children learn to ride on ponies. Lessons are given in small groups for children aged about 2 to 10, starting with bareback work and simple vaulting exercises. The farm also offers jumping and skill riding, guided rides into the surrounding countryside, children's birthday parties and riding weeks in the summer holidays. The ponies live out in a herd with an open stable.
Pferde am Steffenhof is an organic farm near Kufstein in Schwoich, Austria, built around encounters with horses. Children groom, saddle and ride the ponies and horses in experience sessions, holiday care and birthday parties. Adults can join guided forest rides at walking pace. The farm also offers riding pedagogy (Reitpaedagogik), mental coaching and workshops with its horse team.
Reitpädagogik Biserhof offers educational riding sessions for children of kindergarten and primary school age. Riding is only part of the programme; children also play with, groom and care for the horses. Through play and movement they learn basic knowledge about horses and their behaviour and practise a balanced seat. The sessions also aim to build group skills and self-confidence.
Jazdecký klub FADEX is a riding club in Miloslavov, about 10 km from Bratislava. Its facility has two outdoor arenas, two indoor halls, a lunging ring and a horse walker. The club runs a riding school for beginners and advanced riders and offers horse boarding, training of boarded horses and long-term horse leasing for jumping, dressage and western courses. It competes in show jumping, and its horses also have a background in film and stunt work.
Csóka Lovasudvar is a riding yard and club in Dunajský Klátov (Dunatőkés), Slovakia, active since 2001 in leisure riding and equestrian tradition. It keeps six horses and gives riding lessons in an open arena. Trail rides lead through the neighbouring nature reserve along the Little Danube. The yard focuses on young riders aged 6 to 15 but also welcomes adults.
Reitverein Cavallino is a riding club in the Freudenau area of Vienna offering riding lessons for children and teenagers aged 9 to 15. Lessons range from lunge sessions for beginners to group and private lessons, with dressage, jumping and riding games. Members can join hacks in the Prater meadows. The club also teaches horse care and theory and prepares riders for riding badges, licence exams and competitions.
Pferd Laaben, also known as Pferdehof Gratzberg, is a family-run horse yard in Laaben in the Wienerwald. It offers livery places with herd turnout on large paddocks, a riding arena and a small indoor hall. Adult riders can take lessons in dressage and jumping up to class M. The yard also breeds Austrian Warmbloods with mares of Old Austrian and Trakehner lines, and a club on site organises exams and courses.
Reitschule im Sacre Coeur is a riding school in Pressbaum in the Vienna Woods, led by state-certified riding trainer Constanze Wenzel. It offers lessons for adults from beginner to advanced, pony riding for children, parent-and-child riding and hacks in the Wienerwald bridleway network. Training goes up to S level in show jumping and L level in dressage. Private lessons on owners' horses, horse training and competition support are available, along with boarding and children's birthday parties.
Islandpferde Haselbach is an Icelandic horse farm in Perschling, Lower Austria, run by Julia Doppler and Valdimar Audunsson since 2011. It operates a riding school with courses, private lessons and riding camps, and offers boarding. Horses live in two large open-stable areas, are fed organic hay and have 4 ha of pasture in summer. The owners have long experience training Icelandic horses and riders, and the farm also sells horses. Visits are by appointment.
Leithner Ranch is a therapy and leisure stable in Wolfsthal, at the eastern edge of Austria between Vienna and Bratislava. It offers therapeutic and remedial riding, regular lessons for children from age four covering horse care, groundwork, riding and vaulting, and rider badge and dressage licence courses with exams on site. Horse owners can board their horses, with large grass paddocks, an outdoor arena, an indoor hall and trail riding. The farm also rents a seminar room and a holiday flat.
Hippo Campus is a riding and therapy centre in Deutsch-Haslau, Lower Austria, run by Manuela and Frank Werny. The yard is home to around 30 horses. It offers therapeutic riding, western riding, courses, a care-horse programme, children's programmes and holiday camps. Horse boarding is also available, and the farm offers farm holidays and event management.
