Lessons, instruction and schooling — find a yard to learn the ropes or bring a horse on.
Pony farm in Tallesbrunn focused on children. It offers riding lessons covering dressage, jumping, hacking, mounted games, bareback and neck-ring riding, and groundwork. Pony shares and holiday camps are also available. The founder holds riding and vaulting instructor qualifications and a mounted games instructor certificate.
Western riding center in Gerasdorf on the outskirts of Vienna. It offers individual and small-group riding lessons for beginners and experienced western riders, plus guided trail rides of two to three hours. Preparation courses for the Western Riding Certificate are held twice a year. Trainers also offer starting young horses, competition support and problem solving. The facility has a heated indoor arena, an outdoor arena, paddocks and all-weather turnout.
Ponyhof Essling is a non-profit association running a pony farm in Vienna's 22nd district. It offers holiday camps for children from age six with riding, hacking out and farm activities, guided pony rides and birthday parties. It also provides riding pedagogy, letting children from a very young age experience horses. The horses live as a herd in an open stable.
Union Reitverein Zwölfaxing is a small riding club about 20 minutes from central Vienna. It offers boarding boxes, with an indoor arena, outdoor arenas, paddocks, a round pen and wash bays. Qualified trainers teach dressage and jumping, and the club runs courses in Centered Riding, Tellington techniques, groundwork and lunging. It also starts young horses and offers badge and licence examinations.
Pferde gesund reiten is run by Christina Wolz, who offers riding lessons and schooling of horses. She works with horses from young horses to corrective cases, building a stable foundation in dressage up to class L. Services include individual and pair lessons, schooling rides and an initial analysis session. She works across Vienna, Lower Austria, Burgenland and Styria.
Jasmin-Bianca Weidlinger runs a riding school offering riding lessons. Programmes include Hippolini courses for children, children's vaulting, holiday weeks and children's birthday parties. She also teaches Centered Riding, Dual-Aktivierung, Equikinetic and weekend courses. Lessons take place at a riding stable in Elsbach.
ReitCoaching by Stefanie Schraut offers riding lessons and schooling of horses in Vienna, Lower Austria and Burgenland. Stefanie Schraut teaches at her own riding school and also travels as a mobile instructor, teaching dressage up to class LM and jumping up to class A. She also offers online coaching for riders with their own horse. Her qualifications include a dressage licence, a jumping licence and Centered Riding Level 1 trainer certification.
MBTK is a riding and livery yard in Leithaprodersdorf run by Monika Beudel and Tom Kranebitter. Its riding school offers lunge lessons for beginners and group lessons in the indoor hall and arena, taught by trained instructors. Monika Beudel leads instruction from school riding up to competition training. Tom Kranebitter handles schooling of horses and the training of young horses. The yard also offers horse boarding.
Barbara Belousek is a state-certified riding instructor and show jumping and dressage trainer based at Magna Racino in Ebreichsdorf, Lower Austria. She gives individual lessons and daily training for riders with their own horses, prepares riders for competitions and instructor courses, and provides competition support. For horses she offers schooling, training of young horses, correction work and presentation at shows or for sale. Boxes are available for horses staying for multi-day training, and transport to competitions can be arranged.
Wiedenhof im Wienerwald is a horse farm in Austria that breeds Shagya Arabian horses. It also offers riding instruction and courses. In addition, it provides horse-assisted coaching and therapy.
Reitschule Pferdehof Pachler is a riding school in St. Veit an der Gölsen, Austria, run by Susanne and Jürgen Braun. It offers group lessons for beginners and advanced riders, duo and private lessons, and cavaletti and jumping lessons. The school also offers vaulting and riding camps. Lessons are taught on school horses or private horses.
Reitverein Chiron is a riding club in Rabenstein, Austria, founded in 2008. It runs a livery yard with large boxes with windows, a 20 x 40 m indoor arena and a drained winter paddock. Its riding school focuses on children and young riders.
pferdezone is a horse business in Gaaden im Wienerwald, Austria, focused on horsemanship and riding outdoors. It offers programmes for adults and children with horses, horse-assisted learning and a trail park. It also provides ground-based physio training for horses, including rehabilitation and care for older horses at the owner's stable.
Islandpferde Babenberg is an Icelandic horse yard in Klosterneuburg-Weidling, Lower Austria. It runs a riding school with semester courses, Easter and summer riding camps, and Icelandic horse riding certificate courses. The yard also offers horses for sale. Its facilities include paddocks and an oval track.
Greenranch am Schönlehenhof is a small family-run western riding yard in the Melk foothills of Lower Austria. It offers riding lessons on its western horses and ponies for children and adults, from lunge lessons to relaxed trail rides. The yard also offers boarding for horses. Guest rooms and an apartment are available for visitors.
Reiterhof Großmotten is a family-run riding yard in Großmotten near Gföhl in the Waldviertel. It offers riding lessons for beginners and advanced riders of all ages, including grooming and leading before lessons. Advanced riders can go on hacks in the surrounding countryside, and the yard plans away training and rider badge exams. It also offers livery in an open stable, paddock boxes and boxes with turnout, with hay available around the clock.
Little's Ranch is a family horse farm in Blindenmarkt in the Mostviertel, run by Brigitte and Rudolf Kudilek since 2005. It offers livery with turnout and daily care for boarded horses. Brigitte, a certified riding instructor, gives riding lessons in western riding for young and old. The farm also keeps other animals, including White Shepherd dogs.
MedGene Sporthorses is a riding club and riding school in Vitkovce near Topolcany, Slovakia, teaching children and adults from beginner to advanced level. The yard offers livery in a brick stable with individual boxes, daily turnout, hay and bedding. Professional dressage and show-jumping training sessions are available for riders with sporting ambitions. It also sells young horses in training and experienced competition horses, mostly from its own breeding. Facilities include an indoor arena, an outdoor arena, paddocks and pastures.
Storchenhorstranch is a horse ranch in the Marchfeld area of Lower Austria. It boards horses in paddocks and an open stable, matching each horse to a suitable place. Riders without their own horse can take part in a ride-share arrangement or book individual riding lessons. Trail rides, including accompanied rides and overnight stays for riding tours, are available by arrangement.
Reitverein Paddock is a riding club in Laa an der Thaya working on the basis of Natural Horsemanship Team (NHT) methods. It offers riding lessons in dressage, cavaletti work and jumping on ponies and full-size horses, plus preparation for the Reiterpass and Reiternadel. NHT lessons and courses are available for children and adults, beginners and advanced riders, with school horses or their own horse. Weekend courses and a leadership programme with horses are also offered.
Civic association in Marianka offering riding lessons and horse livery. It works mainly with children from age three. Horses are kept in open group housing. The grounds are also rented for parties and team events, with pony rides available.
Koníky pre deti is a civic association offering riding and horse boarding in Mariánka, Slovakia. It focuses on working with young children from age 3, mainly on ponies of various sizes, with an emphasis on partnership between rider and horse. Its horses live in open group housing with free movement. It also runs summer camps and rents its grounds for events with pony rides.
Jazdecká škola Bernolákovo is a riding club with a riding school in Bernolákovo, Slovakia. It teaches riding from the basics and can prepare riders for a licence. The yard offers horse boarding, horse rental for riders of all levels and horses for sale. It also runs summer riding camps for children.
Reitgut Schloss Niederabsdorf is a riding estate in the Weinviertel, about 40 minutes from Vienna. It runs a riding school with individual and group lessons in dressage and jumping on school horses or the rider's own horse, and prepares riders for badges, the Reiterpass and R1 licence. Horses can be boarded in open stables or large boxes with daily paddock turnout. Facilities include a 26x60m indoor arena, a 50x40m outdoor arena, a round pen and a children's arena, and there are programmes for children.
