Lessons, instruction and schooling — find a yard to learn the ropes or bring a horse on.
Kavika provides training and coaching services for horse owners, focusing on clicker training and body awareness. The business aims to enhance the relationship between horse and owner through positive reinforcement techniques. It also offers guidance for instructors to improve their teaching skills in equestrian settings.
Stal de Esdoorn is an equestrian yard in Mariaheide near Veghel. It offers riding instruction, horse training and breeding. Horses have year-round turnout on four hectares of pasture. Facilities include a 20 x 60 m and a 20 x 40 m indoor arena, two lit outdoor arenas and a covered horse walker.
Domein Panhof is an equestrian centre in Peer, Belgium, run by Nele Stevens and Hans Pronk. It offers riding lessons, trail rides and camps. The centre runs carriage driving courses that prepare drivers for the A and B driving licences, and offers horse-drawn wagon and carriage rides. It also rents out livery stabling and its arena, and hosts practice jumping events.
Individual Horse Training specializes in starting young horses under saddle and helping horses with trauma. They offer horse boarding for permanent clients and long-term training horses. Additionally, they provide lessons for horse owners focusing on groundwork and improving the partnership with their horses.
El Castillo Sporthorses is a breeding stable of PRE (Pura Raza Española) sport horses in Rijkevorsel, Belgium. It keeps a small number of selected PRE mares and stallions, and its stallions are available to cover outside mares. It regularly has PRE dressage horses for sale at different ages and levels. It also takes horses into dressage training up to the highest level and offers dressage lessons and courses.
Q-stables is a livery and training yard in Tilburg. Owners can choose full livery, where the yard mucks out and turns horses out six days a week, or half livery, where they care for the box themselves. Turnout is offered in groups of mares and geldings or on an individual paddock of about 1000 m2. The yard also gives lessons, trains and starts young horses, and breeds quality foals on a small scale.
Springflower Stables is a livery yard in Hulten offering stabling with personal attention for horses and their riders. Facilities include sand paddocks, a lunging ring, a horse walker, a solarium, grooming areas and an outdoor competition arena. The yard offers instruction, has a breeding side, and hosts dressage competitions including para-dressage events. Guests describe spacious straw-bedded boxes and daily turnout in individual paddocks.
SD Stables is a training and trading yard in Mierlo specialising in Friesian horses, run by Stan Derksen and Demi van Nuys since 2019. It trains horses for inspections, under saddle and in harness, and develops them in dressage. The yard offers lessons from a qualified instructor and places for colts in rearing. It also buys and sells Friesian horses worldwide, from foals to sport horses and broodmares.
Stal De Chaamse Bossen is a family-run livery yard in Chaam on the edge of the Chaamse Bossen. Horses live outdoors 24/7 in herds on a landscape with tracks, shelter, ponds and herb-rich grazing designed by a landscape architect. Riders can use training facilities including a 1.5 ha eventing field and a 2 km gallop track. The yard also offers instruction and clinics in dressage and jumping, sells sport ponies and horses, and takes interns.
Stal Quinto is an equestrian sports centre in Sint-Oedenrode for showjumpers, dressage riders and leisure riders. It offers livery, training, breeding, horse sales and horse leasing, as well as lessons for children. Facilities include spacious stables, an indoor arena, an outdoor arena with jumping field, a lunging ring, a horse walker and year-round turnout. The yard borders the Vressel woods and is owned by Bianca and Henri Maas.
Jack Link's Eventing is dedicated to developing talent in the Dutch eventing sport. They provide a training center for riders and horses, offering structured training and support to help them reach international competition levels. The team organizes selection days and provides individual development plans for riders, focusing on both group and individual training sessions.
Manege Het Keelven is a family-run riding centre in Someren. It started as an outdoor manege in 2006 and was later expanded into a large indoor riding sports centre. The founder is a certified instructor active in western riding, dressage, driving and vaulting. The site also runs a feed boutique and a brasserie for visitors.
Schijndelse Woud Stables is an equestrian yard in Schijndel, the Netherlands, run by René van der Bruggen and Mascha van den Bosch with their family. It offers livery in 52 stables renewed in 2023, training, and jumping and dressage lessons. Riders can hire its all-weather 20x60 dressage arena and 40x80 jumping arena for practice. The yard also hosts hobby horse competitions.
Rijschool Educatie offers a variety of riding lessons with experienced and certified instructors. They provide flexible lesson times and various packages for students. The lessons are designed to ensure proper traffic education for riders.
Dressage Stable Pais is an international dressage and sales stable in Weelde, Belgium, run by Anneke and Serge Pais. They train talented dressage horses to a higher level and offer horses for sale to amateur and professional riders. Both teach students from Belgium and abroad. Serge has competed up to Grand Prix level, and Anneke manages the stable and coaches students.
Franssen Stables is a show jumping yard in Gilze, the Netherlands, between Breda and Tilburg. It trains and sells jumping horses aged 4 to 10 years. Gerard and Tim Franssen also train riders to improve their riding. The stable has operated for more than 15 years and has sold horses that reached the highest level of the sport.
Stal Oostwal in Amsterdam's Belmermeer offers pony lessons for children with experienced instructors. It hosts pony birthday parties with grooming and riding and runs holiday camps with ponies. Trial bikes and e-quads are also offered.
Poko Loko Stables is a luxurious and well-equipped stable complex located in Noord Holland. The main activities include dressage instruction up to Grand Prix level, high-quality boarding for horses, and training or rehabilitation services using an aquatrainer. The facility prioritizes the well-being of the horses and provides comprehensive care and training options.
Ruiterschool Rodeberg is a riding school and club in Westouter for recreational and competitive riders of all ages. It offers introductory lessons for young children, beginner and advanced lessons, private lessons, rides and riding badge training. The club runs youth activities, jumping and club competitions and sport camps, and has two indoor arenas and a jumping arena. Livery is available, and the associated Sportstal Deraedt helps riders choose and buy horses.
Susans Ponyranch is an outdoor riding school near Eindhoven where fun, handling and care of the ponies come first. It offers group and private riding lessons for children and young riders, from beginners to advanced, in an outdoor arena and on outdoor rides. The ponies live out in a herd on pasture year-round. The ranch also organises pony camps, treks and competitions.
Het Paardrijk is a riding school (manege) in Berlicum that puts both rider enjoyment and horse welfare first. It offers group riding lessons for children and adults, private lessons, jumping lessons, groundwork lessons and outdoor rides. The yard also runs pony camps and has a number of livery stalls. Horse coaching is offered for children with a support need and for adults, individually and for teams.
Manege Torenhof is a riding school in Westerlo, Belgium. It offers group and private lessons in jumping and dressage from age 3, for both recreational and competitive riders, bookable online by members. The stable also starts young horses under saddle. It hosts children's birthday parties with pony activities.
SPGOB (Stichting Paardrijden Gehandicapten Oost-Brabant) is a foundation in Eindhoven that offers horse riding for people with disabilities. Its lessons serve children and adults with an autism spectrum disorder or with auditory, visual, physical or cognitive impairments. The foundation keeps its own horses and ponies and runs lessons and activities. It was founded in February 1971.
Manege Duikse Hoef is a riding stable in Loon op Zand, next to the woods leading to the Drunense Duinen. It offers group lessons for adults, private and duo lessons on request, and guided trail rides. Horse owners can board their horses on half livery, with hay several times a day and daily turnout. Facilities include an indoor and a lit outdoor arena, a lunging ring and a 250-metre oval track for training Icelandic horses in tolt and pace.
