Lessons, instruction and schooling — find a yard to learn the ropes or bring a horse on.
Liberty Ranch is a non-profit riding club (UNION-Reitverein) based at a stable in Ulrichskirchen, Lower Austria. It runs a riding school with semester courses, holiday camps and children's birthday parties. It also offers horse-assisted coaching and a riding coach programme. The club promotes equestrian sport for all age groups and holds competitions and events.
Pferdewelt Equicale is a riding and therapy association at a small horse farm in Hatzenbach near Stockerau. It offers HIPS therapeutic riding for children, adolescents and adults. Its riding education programme supports children's motor skills, perception and confidence through work with and on the horse. Trail rides are also offered.
Schmidt-Gentner Reitstall is a riding yard in Maisbirbaum in the Weinviertel, opened in 2020. It boards horses in 27 boxes with twice-daily hay, daily bedding and concentrate feed three times a day. Alongside boarding, the team offers jumping and dressage lessons, training of show jumpers and buying and selling of horses. The yard is run by Katharina Schmidt-Gentner, a state-certified show-jumping trainer and competition rider.
Fiona Knödler is a mobile riding instructor who teaches dressage at the rider's own stable. Individual lessons last about 40 minutes, with package rates available. She also offers advice on equipment, preparation for exams and competitions, and training plans between lessons. Competition accompaniment is available and transport can be organised on request.
Ponyhelden is a pony school for riding pedagogy in Frauenhofen near Tulln. It runs Lolino riding-pedagogy sessions for children from age three and vaulting for children from age six. Offerings include small-group courses, individual and sibling lessons, sensory-support sessions, a Ponyhelden licence course, children's birthday parties and pony days. Children learn pony care, handling and led riding through play.
Reit- und Fahrverein Leiser Berge is a riding and driving club in Pyhra in the Leiser Berge nature park, Austria, founded in 2024. It offers guided trail rides of one to two hours on horses and ponies suitable for beginners and children from about four years old. The club provides riding pedagogy for children and adults at all levels. It also breeds horses and raises its own foals.
Fein Reiten is run by Victoria Körösszegi near Tulln an der Donau, Austria. She is a trained animal physiotherapist, freelance trainer and riding instructor. She offers riding lessons and in-hand work based on classical riding principles, focusing on suppleness, balance and fine aids. Her physiotherapy background is used to recognise tension and movement restrictions and to adapt training to the horse and rider.
Dressage yard in Minichhofen in the Weinviertel run by Michael and Renate Nachförg. It trains and corrects horses of all breeds following classical riding principles and the Hand-Sattel-Hand method. Services include schooling, holiday schooling, terrain training, courses and joint lessons for owners and their horses. It also takes rehab and livery horses.
Reitsport Viki offers riding lessons in the English style on the Hauser family horse farm at the Sperlhof in St. Georgen an der Gusen. Lessons are run by qualified instructor Viktoria Hauser, who has competed in dressage up to class M, with support from Selina Peneder. Riding lessons are available for children from age 7, beginners and advanced riders, covering leisure and competition riding. The farm also keeps livery horses.
bAUERnhof is a family horse farm run by Manuel and Elisabeth Auer in Mitterbach near Freistadt. It offers holistic riding lessons in the FEBS format for children aged three to eight and GRIPS for older children and adults. The farm has five boxes for livery horses, summer grazing paddocks and a riding arena for its boarders. It also offers carriage rides.
Pferdefreunde Altenberg is a riding club near Altenberg in Upper Austria, registered with the regional riding and driving federation since 1992. Members use a club riding arena in Willersdorf. The club arranges riding lessons with several instructors and organises rides, tournaments, working equitation training and social events.
Ponyoase is run by the association Verein Pferdeoase in Ebendorf, Lower Austria, and specialises in natural keeping and handling of equines living in herds. Most of its animals are rescued from poor conditions and are rehabilitated and trained in an extended horsemanship approach. It offers horse-assisted education for children and riding lessons with ponies. Supporters can sponsor animals or become members and take on a care horse.
Legapony is a riding and breeding yard in Kronberg, Lower Austria, founded by riding instructor Sabine Fürst. It offers riding lessons for children and adults of all levels, with one or two pupils per session, plus longer hacks. A specialty is dyslexia training that combines classic learning support with riding education, using the horse as a learning partner. The yard also teaches vaulting, breeds horses, sells horses and stands a breeding stallion at stud.
Reitstall Karnabrunn is a long-established family riding stable run by the Wernard family in Karnabrunn, Lower Austria. It sells horses from its own breeding and offers rearing, schooling and training, competition support and riding lessons. Facilities include an indoor arena, grass paddocks, an aqua trainer and a solarium. The yard takes in livery horses and caters for both competition riders and leisure riders.
PiJu-Ponyranch in Mittergrabern is a small pony yard run by Sandra Groschopf, a trained integrative horse-assisted riding educator. It offers pony sessions and riding lessons, weekly pony groups each school semester, camps, events and children's birthday parties. Its programmes are inclusive and open to people of all ages, with or without disabilities. The ranch works without an indoor arena, meeting the ponies outdoors in nature. Visits are by appointment only.
Kasteni - Pferdeerlebnis is a collaboration of three horsewomen running yards in Untermarkersdorf, Enzersdorf im Thale and Aspersdorf in the Hollabrunn district. They offer riding lessons, vaulting, pony rides and horse-assisted education and learning with horses. Further programmes include camps, mother-and-child courses, birthday parties at the yard, adventure-education weekends and offers for institutions. Each yard keeps its own group of horses.
JK Poštorná is a riding club in Břeclav, Czech Republic. It offers riding lessons for children from 8 years and for adults, plus a summer day camp for children. The yard has boxes for livery horses with daily paddock turnout. Horses in training are schooled in dressage from A level up to Grand Prix by trainer Eliška Stránská, and the club runs winter dressage clinics.
The Lipizzanergestüt "Zur Schwarzen Föhre" is a riding farm in the Weinviertel with 25 years of horse breeding, from Haflingers to Lipizzaners. It breeds Lipizzaner stallions and mares and presents young horses for sale. The riding school teaches dressage basics with a focus on leisure riding, and runs riding courses, adult riding weeks and youth riding camps with preparation for the Reiterpass and Reiternadel exams. Guest rooms and holiday flats are available for riders staying on the farm.
Wanderreithof Litschau is a trail-riding yard in the northern Waldviertel with ten guest boxes for visiting horses and direct access to a regional bridle path network of more than 500 km. Riders can explore with maps, GPS or a local trail guide, on single overnight stops or longer riding holidays with their own horse. The yard has an indoor arena and hosts regular riding lessons and courses in dressage, jumping, working equitation and groundwork. Rehabilitation training, chiropractic and orthopaedic shoeing are offered on site, with the operator working as a certified farrier.
Stáj Ecola at Haklovy Dvory near České Budějovice offers riding lessons for children and adults and a pony school for small children. It provides short-term boarding for horses in training and individual horse training. Its riders have won several Czech Mountain Trail championship titles, and it runs courses, competitions and riding camps.
Stáj Poluška is a family-run organic farm stable near Rožmitál na Šumavě in the Poluška nature park. It rents out warmblood and coldblood horses and ponies, with basic rider equipment, for rides through the surrounding forests and meadows. Less experienced riders, children and beginners can ride accompanied by the farm's breeders, and bareback riding is possible. The farm also sells organic hay and haylage.
Koně Vondrov is an equestrian yard at Dvůr Vondrov near Hluboká nad Vltavou. It offers riding instruction, horse boarding and rental of an outdoor arena and a covered riding hall. The club is a member of the Czech Equestrian Federation and organises equestrian events such as the annual horse festival and the Hubertus ride.
Victoria Stables is a stable in Veghel, North Brabant, that specialises in breeding show jumping horses. It offers tailored training for young horses as well as for riders of all levels, from beginners to experienced competitors. The training focuses on developing talent, improving performance and building the bond between horse and rider. The site lists its own horses and a lessons section.
Stoeterij Ravensbos is a family-run breeding and dressage yard near Valkenburg aan de Geul in the Limburg hills. The family has three generations of experience breeding, raising and starting horses and ponies. Its main focus is breeding and selling Friesian horses and training and selling dressage horses. The yard also offers stabling, training and lessons, and can arrange transport and export documents for buyers.
