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Elena Dridi Pferdeverhaltenstraining

Leiferde, Germany

Elena Dridi is a horse behaviour trainer based at Leiferde in Lower Saxony. Her work centres on communication between handler and horse, applying learning principles to resolve unwanted behaviour without force. Sessions cover everyday handling such as leading, grooming and tying up, as well as structured groundwork with a range of training aids. The aim is a trusting partnership built on clearer signals and better body-language awareness.

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Reitschule nurhappy

Lehre, Germany

Reitschule nurhappy is the riding school of Nathalie Pawlik at Essehof near Lehre in Lower Saxony. She is a state-certified physiotherapist as well as a qualified riding instructor and horsemanship trainer, and brings both backgrounds to her teaching. Lessons cover ridden work and groundwork, with the emphasis on improving how horse and rider move together. Courses and clinics run through the year alongside regular instruction.

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Face to Face Ulrike Fischer

Leer (Ostfriesland), Germany

Face to Face is the equine training practice of Ulrike Fischer in Leer, East Frisia, built around the working relationship between horse and rider. Training simulates everyday and deliberately unusual situations so horses gain confidence and riders learn fair, clear leadership. Alongside individual sessions she runs courses and events on horse behaviour and handling. The practice also offers magnetic-field and laser therapy for horses. Her guiding principle is that everything is possible and nothing is compulsory.

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Extreme Trail Loga

Leer (Ostfriesland), Germany

Extreme Trail Loga is an extreme-trail training facility near Leer in East Frisia, run by Christine Reentjes. Horse and rider work through a purpose-built course of natural and man-made obstacles designed to build confidence, balance and surefootedness. The focus is on trust and mutual respect between horse and human rather than on competition. The trail is used for individual training sessions as well as guided group offerings.

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PferdMenschNatur

Leer (Ostfriesland), Germany

PferdMenschNatur is Britta Redeker's practice in Leer, East Frisia, built around the relationship between horse and handler. On the horse side she offers basic training, groundwork and liberty work, desensitisation, leading and loading training, preparation for farrier and vet visits, and rehabilitation stays for problem horses. She also advises on husbandry, equipment and buying a horse. The practice extends into human coaching and energy work, including horse-assisted coaching, Reiki and kinesiological testing.

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Freizeitreiterhof Anne Zimmer

Leer (Ostfriesland), Germany

Freizeit Reiterhof Zimmer is a leisure-riding yard at Logabirum near Leer in East Frisia, founded by Anne Zimmer in 1997. It teaches children, teenagers and adults, offers hacks through the surrounding countryside, and takes horses in for training (Beritt). Boarding is available in several box categories, and riders can arrange share-horse or care-horse agreements. The yard runs clinics, holiday programmes, summer camps and children's birthday parties, and works closely with the Reitverein Siebenberger Strolche e.V. Equine-assisted pedagogy and prevention courses round out the programme.

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W-Buckskin-Ranch

Leer (Ostfriesland), Germany

W-Buckskin-Ranch is a western riding yard in Leer in East Frisia, run by Folkmar and Andrea Wissmann. It gives individual riding instruction to beginners, returning riders, late starters and riders converting to western, together with groundwork and horsemanship courses. The team also starts young horses and works through problems between horse and rider, and will travel to teach at client yards. Facilities include a 20x40 m arena, a covered exercise hall, a round pen and trail obstacles, with the horses out on pasture year-round.

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Böckmann Pferde GmbH

Lastrup, Germany

Böckmann Pferde is a long-established sport-horse operation at Lastrup in Lower Saxony with more than fifty years of breeding behind it. The stud stands a collection of licensed stallions and offers frozen semen alongside its own breeding programme. Riding horses, breeding stock and foals are marketed from the yard, and sport and training are led by international rider Gilbert Böckmann. Livery places with individual care are available for owners who want their horses kept and worked on site.

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Reitschule Ute Limbach

Langwedel, Germany

Reitschule Ute Limbach, trading as "Zeit mit Pferden", is a riding yard in Etelsen near Langwedel, Lower Saxony. It teaches pony lessons, lunge lessons, group and private instruction and ground work for riders of every age and ability. The yard also offers therapeutic riding for people with disabilities, FN badge courses, competition preparation and support at shows. Livery places are available, and the team runs hobby-horsing sessions and children's birthday parties alongside the core riding programme.

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Ausbildungsstall Röhr

Landesbergen, Germany

Ausbildungsstall Röhr is a training yard at Landesbergen in Lower Saxony run by Thorsten Röhr, a Pferdewirtschaftsmeister. The yard starts young horses and schools dressage horses, show jumpers and leisure horses, presenting them at competitions and marketing them for sale. Riding lessons and clinics are given for riders alongside the horse work. The business is also a recognised training establishment for apprentice Pferdewirte specialising in riding.

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Nadine Menschel Horse & Development

Landesbergen, Germany

Nadine Menschel Horse & Development is a riding instruction and horse training business based at Landesbergen in Lower Saxony. As a certified trainer she gives riding lessons and runs courses for horse and rider, including feedback rounds on the rider's own progress. She specialises in Equikinetic and Dualaktivierung, gymnastic groundwork systems used to build a horse's fitness and straightness. Lessons are given at her own yard and at clients' stables across the region.

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Heinz-Christian Gresens e.K.

Lamstedt, Germany

Gut Haneworth near Lamstedt is a five-star FN-certified livery yard on a historic estate, with room for around 40 horses across four modern, airy stables and a minimum box size of 14 square metres. Horses go out to pasture daily whenever the weather allows and are fed selected hay, haylage and quality concentrate, with steamed hay available for horses with respiratory problems. Facilities include a 20 x 40 m indoor school, a 20 x 60 m outdoor arena, a lunging ring, a heated tack room and a hot-water wash box. A certified trainer teaches on the yard school horses and starts young horses, supported by a Pferdewirtschaftsmeister and equine physiotherapist who runs training and health seminars. Riding goes straight out from the yard into the estate own 77-hectare forest, and visiting riders can use a holiday flat or a motorhome pitch.

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Islandpferdehof OelStede

Lamspringe, Germany

Islandpferdehof Oel Stede is an Icelandic-horse yard at Graste near Lamspringe, run by the Hoffmann family. It offers boarding for Icelandic horses, riding instruction and schooling (Beritt), with an indoor school on the farm. A specialist retail side sells Icelandic-horse saddles, girths, Velica bridles and other equipment, together with saddle-fitting consultations. Sale horses are offered from the yard from time to time.

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Zucht & Verkaufsstall Otten-Willers

Kutenholz, Germany

Zucht- und Verkaufsstall Otten-Willers is a dressage-horse breeding and sales yard at Mulsum near Kutenholz in Lower Saxony, run by Martin and Jessica Otten-Willers. The farm breeds its own foals and raises them in a herd out on pasture. It also takes in foals and young horses belonging to clients for rearing and professional care. Horses are schooled through to sale, so the yard works as a full-service operation from foal to finished riding horse.

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Sportpferde Luttmann

Kirchlinteln, Germany

Sportpferde Luttmann is a breeding and training yard in Kirchlinteln, Lower Saxony. The operation raises its own young stock and schools sport horses through its Ausbildungsstall, presenting them in competition before offering them for sale. Successful horses produced by the yard are documented alongside the current sales list. The farm also runs a wildflower meadow project on its land as an environmental initiative.

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Stall Cordes

Kirchdorf, Germany

Stall Cordes is a training and sales stable in Nienburg, Lower Saxony. The yard backs young horses and schools dressage, jumping and leisure horses, tailoring the programme to each individual animal. Horses in work are presented at competitions before being offered for sale. The team also takes on correction and confidence work for horses that need a careful restart.

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Nadine Kulp

Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany

Nadine Kulp teaches horse and rider training at her farm in Katlenburg-Lindau and around the Northeim area. Lessons cover dressage, groundwork and jumping, and she works with problem horses and with riders who have lost confidence. She runs taster days, beginner courses, dressage clinics and an online course on fear around horses. There are no school horses - riders bring their own horse, and appointments can be arranged any day of the week.

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Jasperhof GmbH & Co.KG Pferdepension

Jerxheim, Germany

Jasperhof Jerxheim is a modern active stable for horses and ponies at Jerxheim, between the Heeseberg and the Großes Bruch south of the Elm, built in 2021/22 by Antje Gritzan. Horses live in herd groups on a paddock-trail system rather than in conventional single boxes. The site has a 20x60 m outdoor arena, dressage and jumping arenas, a round pen and a salt chamber, with direct access to hacking. It runs a programme of dressage courses, TGT courses and theory seminars, and is currently adding a further gelding group.

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Sportpferde H. Heckmann GmbH

Isterberg, Germany

Sportpferde H. Heckmann is an FN-certified training yard near Bad Bentheim in Lower Saxony, run by Michael Heckmann. The operation breeds, schools and sells jumping, dressage and eventing horses, selecting for health, athleticism and temperament. Horses from the stable compete at regional, national and international level, and the yard has helped develop riders including Marco Kutscher. Buyers ranging from amateurs to professionals are matched with horses at a suitable stage of training.

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Bramall Dusche

Isernhagen, Germany

Bramall-Dusche is an international dressage training stable and breeding operation in Isernhagen near Hannover, in the heart of Germany's largest horse-breeding region. The yard is run by two-time Canadian Olympic dressage rider Leonie Bramall together with Volker Dusche, who contributes many years of experience in breeding and stable management. Sport and breeding are deliberately run hand in hand, so the farm keeps a band of quality broodmares alongside young stock and competition horses. Training runs up to the highest levels, and the business also markets young riding horses and made competition horses internationally.

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Nina Sturm

Isernhagen, Germany

Nina Sturm trains horses and riders from Nienhagen near Celle in a classical, horse-friendly tradition. Groundwork is a core part of the programme - leading and rope work, lungeing and double lungeing, free work, in-hand work, long reining and trail obstacle courses. She also teaches classical dressage, carriage driving up to competition class M, and loading training. Equine physiotherapy is offered alongside, including manual therapy, acupressure, stress-point massage, low-level laser, TENS and kinesio taping, and she leads trail rides in Germany and abroad.

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Gestüt Basselthof

Isernhagen, Germany

Islandpferdegestüt Basselthof is an Icelandic horse stud near Hannover, run by the Grimm family since 1971 and led today by Marlise Grimm. Breeding is the heart of the operation and homebred youngstock is raised on the farm's own pastures. The yard also offers livery, backing and training (Beritt), and keeps a standing string of horses for sale. Riding herds share the grounds with rabbits, dogs and deer, giving the place a relaxed family character. A small shop and a calendar of yard events round out the offering.

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Ponywelten

Isenbüttel, Germany

Ponywelten is the training practice of Marleen Müller in Isenbüttel, Lower Saxony, working with horses and their riders on groundwork and ridden work. She takes horses in for Beritt, professional schooling under saddle and from the ground, and gives individual instruction built on calmness, feel and timing rather than force. Alongside training she offers Reitpädagogik and therapeutic riding sessions and BEMER Horse Set treatments. Every programme is tailored to the individual horse-and-rider pair.

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Hof Bitter

Ihlienworth, Germany

Hof Bitter is a family yard at Ihlienworth near the North Sea coast, giving riding lessons to local riders and holidaymakers alike. Both dressage and jumping are taught. Horses and ponies are boarded, bred and schooled on the farm. The facilities include an indoor arena, a round pen and an outdoor school, surrounded by large pastures.

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