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Competition prep, sale prep and schooling — find a program that brings a horse on.

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Pferdezucht-Perle

Ihlienworth, Germany

Pferdezucht Perle is a small breeding operation run by Claudia Perle at Medemstade near Ihlienworth in Lower Saxony. It breeds and raises its own foals from a band of broodmares and presents young horses at shows and competitions. The yard also takes work for other owners: rearing foals, pregnancy monitoring, foaling supervision for visiting mares and starting young horses under saddle. Broodmares, foals and youngstock from the operation are documented on its site.

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Gut Allerwiesen

Häuslingen, Germany

Gut Allerwiesen is a training yard at Häuslingen on the Aller in the Lüneburg Heath, run by Christine and Lennart Gebauer. The focus is on courses for horse owners who want to improve the partnership with their own horse, built on clear communication and solid groundwork. Riding courses, trail courses and an extreme trail layout are offered, together with individual coaching for riders working through a specific training problem. Courses can be booked online and gift vouchers are available.

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Diestelhof Hollenstedt

Hollenstedt, Germany

Diestelhof Hollenstedt is a horse training and riding-instruction yard at Hollenstedt in Lower Saxony, run by Peter and Angelika Meyer-Wenk. The business brings decades of experience to schooling horses and coaching the people who ride them, working towards a harmonious horse-and-human partnership. Every horse is treated as an individual with its own character and its own training plan. The yard works with riders who are willing to develop themselves alongside their horse, and offers consultation as well as training.

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Reiterhof Familie Aue

Holle, Germany

Reiterhof Aue is a family-run dressage yard in Holle-Heersum, Lower Saxony, offering systematic dressage training from the young horse up to advanced (Klasse S) level. Professional schooling and competition preparation for young horses, leisure horses, sport horses and ponies has been a core part of the business for many years, alongside correction work and training planning. Lessons and clinics are open to beginners, leisure riders and competitive riders of every level, with a strong focus on seat training and correct, horse-friendly riding. The facility has large stables, pastures, a 20 x 40 m outdoor arena and a 20 x 60 m insulated indoor school. The yard is run personally by the Aue family, which keeps the atmosphere calm and individual for horse and owner.

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Lichtpferde Reittherapie & Pferdeverhaltenstherapie

Hohnstorf (Elbe), Germany

Lichtpferde is Laura Burmester's practice at Hohnstorf near Lüneburg, working at the point where horse behaviour training and equine-assisted work with people meet. On the horse side she takes on behavioural cases and mentors owners through retraining, building the work on an honest relationship rather than pressure. On the human side she offers equine-assisted coaching and therapy sessions. She also trains therapy horses and runs a certification programme for people who want to work as Heilpferde trainers, alongside day courses and one-to-one assessments.

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Therapiezentrum Hof Thölke

Hohne, Germany

Therapiezentrum Hof Thölke at Hohne in the Südheide works with horses from the Hanover and Celle region, combining therapy with targeted training. The centre runs Equikinetic lungeing programmes for muscle development, balance and coordination, and Dual-Aktivierung work that pairs dressage exercises with colour-signal cues. A salt chamber is available for horses with equine asthma, and individual training and rehabilitation plans are drawn up per horse. Rider seat and position correction and lessons for children and adults are also offered.

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Lesley Osborne

Hitzacker (Elbe), Germany

Lesley Osborne works with horse owners around Hitzacker under the banner "Pferde gesund trainieren und therapieren", building structured training that keeps a horse sound over the long term. As a certified Equo Vadis equine health trainer she starts from a full assessment of the horse's current state, then sets goals and a training plan with milestones and coaches the owner through it. Practical work covers physiotherapy and massage, gymnastic and stretching work in hand, long-reining, back conditioning and loosening work under saddle. She also uses Penzel acupressure massage (APM) as a non-invasive complement where training alone is not resolving a problem.

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Pony Ranch Elbstrand - Dania Reetz

Hittbergen, Germany

Pony Ranch Elbstrand is the equestrian side of trainer and coach Dania Reetz, based on the Elbe near Hittbergen in Lower Saxony. She works with horse-and-rider teams using positive reinforcement training and Horseagility, from the ground as well as under saddle. The offering covers training days, one-to-one coaching, courses and online training programmes for owners who want a calmer, more motivated partnership with their horse. Reetz also publishes books and a podcast built around the same approach.

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Sven Vogelsang

Hittbergen, Germany

Sven Vogelsang runs a training yard at Hittbergen in Lower Saxony specialising in the schooling of horses and the instruction of their riders. Horses are taken in for training, and lessons are given to riders working towards a clearer, more effective partnership with their own horse. A string of the yard's own horses is used for the training work. The operation is small and owner-run, with individual attention rather than a large lesson programme.

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Ponyhof Schrollerhausen

Hittbergen, Germany

Ponyhof Schrollerhausen is Doris Schroller's yard at Hittbergen in Lower Saxony, working along natural-horsemanship lines. She takes on groundwork, correction of problem horses, starting young horses, loading training and riding lessons, building each programme around the individual horse and rider. The yard runs a pony school for children from the age of four. She also offers equine thermography, with whole-body and saddle scans plus follow-up examinations.

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Bischofs Hof

Hilter, Germany

Bischofs Hof is a riding establishment in Hilter am Teutoburger Wald. Its core is a rolling programme of clinics, which the farm calls its Universität, taught by well-known trainers and covering liberty work, classical dressage on the horse and on the double lunge, working equitation, horsemanship and young-horse education. Riders bring their own horses to the courses, which are kept to small groups of around eight. Stabling and apartments on site mean horse and rider can stay for the length of a course.

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Reitanlage Birgit Bösche

Hilgermissen, Germany

Reitanlage Birgit Bösche is a family-run equestrian yard at Wechold in the municipality of Hilgermissen, Lower Saxony. The facility offers roughly 35 full-board boxes together with an indoor school, an outdoor arena and a horse walker. Birgit Bösche teaches dressage in group and private lessons and schools horses and riders through to advanced (class S) level, including preparation for the German riding badges. A strong youth programme and regular clinics round out what the yard offers.

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Stal Weidelust

Het Hogeland, Netherlands

Stal Weidelust is a family equestrian yard at Klein Garnwerd near Winsum in Groningen, run by Klaas and Jelly Pestman. It offers dressage instruction from beginner level up to Z2 on its own school horses and ponies as well as on riders' own horses. The yard also breaks in and trains young horses, prepares horses for studbook inspections, rears youngstock and takes livery horses. Five to ten foals are bred at the stable each year.

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Daans Westerntraining

Herzlake, Germany

Daans Westerntraining is the western riding school and training operation of Daan van Wingerden in Herzlake in the Emsland, working under the motto "Im Einklang zur Harmonie". He gives riding lessons and runs clinics for western riders, working on the partnership between horse and rider rather than on drill. Lessons and course dates are published on the site along with current news from the yard, which has been rebuilt and extended since 2017. Horses are also taken in for training.

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Rotenberg Ranch

Herzberg am Harz, Germany

Rotenberg Ranch is run by Stephanie Mock at Herzberg am Harz and works on trust-based horsemanship, independent of breed or discipline. She gives mobile riding lessons, takes horses in for schooling and works with anxious or difficult horses through groundwork and desensitisation training. Day and weekend courses, riding-badge clinics, HIPPOLINI children's groups, birthday parties and holiday camps run through the year. The yard also offers livery and riding holidays for guests who bring their own horse.

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Hägerhof

Herzberg am Harz, Germany

Arabergestüt Hägerhof is an Arabian stud at Herzberg am Harz run by the Dill family, breeding Arabian horses since 1968 with a particular fondness for black coats. The stud stands its own breeding stallion and keeps a band of broodmares, publishing every foal crop going back two decades. Purebred Arabian breeding stock and ridden Arabians are offered for sale, alongside Quarabs, Quarter Horses, Paints and Connemaras at various ages and stages of training. On request the stud will also take in customer horses for rearing and for training under saddle, with a western riding emphasis.

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Blanken Horses

Hepstedt, Germany

Blanken Horses is a sales and training yard for dressage and show-jumping horses in Hepstedt, between Bremen and Bremervörde, run by Stefan Blanken. The business schools horses for clients up to medium and advanced level and prepares young horses for competitions and championships. It also prepares stallions and riding horses for licensings and auctions, and holds its own selection date for the Verden auction. The farm has bred horses for four generations and today has a 20x40 m indoor school, 33 boxes, a horse walker, a lunging ring, an outdoor arena and paddocks.

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Sportpferde Dirk Seewald

Hemslingen, Germany

Sportpferde Seewald is a training and sales stable in Söhlingen near Hemslingen, Lower Saxony, run by Dirk Seewald. The yard schools young Hanoverian sport horses and presents them for sale to riders looking for their next dressage or jumping prospect. Its current sales list is published on the website with each horse's pedigree, year of birth and height. Visitors are welcome to view the facility and the horses by appointment.

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Hengststation Pape

Hemmoor, Germany

Hengststation Pape in Hemmoor, Lower Saxony, is a many-sided yard built around the breeding, training and sale of quality dressage horses. A farming operation and a band of ten to twelve of its own broodmares form the base, with roughly twenty youngsters a year raised on the farm's own land. A team of seven schools these young horses so that a varied lot of sale horses at different stages is always available, and the competition stable has taken horses from remount to Grand Prix, winning 24 medals at Bundeschampionate and world championships. A second arm of the business is the EU-approved AI stallion station, standing six stallions and shipping semen to breeders.

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Nice & Quiet Horsetraining

Helvesiek, Germany

Nice & Quiet is a reining horse breeding and training operation run by Lena Marie Nordhausen at Helvesiek in Lower Saxony. The yard breeds from its own broodmares and raises youngstock with reining performance in mind. Weanlings, yearlings, two- and three-year-olds and older horses are offered for sale. Horses are trained on the premises, and visitors are welcome by appointment.

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Team Kiefernhof

Helmstedt, Germany

Team Kiefernhof is a western riding yard near Helmstedt in Lower Saxony, run by Bettina Woitzyk. Lessons are open to anyone who likes horses, with or without a horse of their own, from nervous first-timers to leisure riders and those starting out on the show circuit. The yard also starts and schools horses, with a strong emphasis on groundwork in the round pen, on the trail course and out in the country. Quarter Horses are bred and occasionally offered for sale, and the team will help clients look for a suitable horse.

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Springpferde Heinsohn

Heeslingen, Germany

Springpferde Heinsohn is a show-jumping yard in Boitzen near Heeslingen, Lower Saxony, run by Anja Heinsohn. The stable buys, schools and sells jumping horses, producing them up to advanced S*** level. Alongside the sales horses the team coaches its own students and presents horses at shows. Horses in training are looked after individually, with the current sales list and competition results published on the website.

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PferdeBewusstSein

Heemsen, Germany

PferdeBewusstSein is the training practice of Helena Biere at Anderten in Heemsen, Lower Saxony. She works holistically with horse and handler, building a trust-based relationship through conscious communication, correct gymnastic work and mindful horsemanship. Alongside on-site training she takes one or two horses a year for longer training placements, and runs learning groups, courses, seminars and programmes for children. Remote support is available through video analysis and telephone consultation, and she also offers animal communication and accompaniment for trauma-resolution work.

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Hof Johannsmann

Hasbergen, Germany

Hof Johannsmann, trading as MJ European Sporthorses, is a family-run breeding and training yard at Hasbergen led by Marc Johannsmann. It breeds performance-bred sport horses and accompanies each one from foal through rearing to competition. Training plans are written individually for every horse, for both dressage and jumping. The yard also presents horses at competition on their owners' behalf.

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