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Training barns

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

519 businesses

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Ariane Wester-Ebbinghaus

Haren (Ems), Germany

Ariane Wester-Ebbinghaus teaches dressage on classical principles from Haren in the Emsland. She works with riders of every age and performance level, from leisure riders through to competitors at advanced (S) level. Her training builds on balance, relaxation and the classical training scale, with the goal of harmony between horse and rider. She is also an FN-licensed judge and mentors other trainers in North Rhine-Westphalia.

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Sportpferde Tieben

Haren (Ems), Germany

Sportpferde Tieben is a family operation in Haren an der Ems that has bred, schooled, bought and sold sport horses for over 30 years. The stable specialises in show jumpers, hunters, equitation horses and ponies, and keeps a large selection available at a range of training levels. Horses produced or sold by the Tieben family have gone on to win from pony hunter classes up to Grand Prix show jumping around the world. Buyers describe what they are looking for and the team helps match them to a suitable horse.

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Stall Csaba Sarközi

Hanstedt, Germany

Stall Csaba Sarközi is the training yard of Hungarian-born professional rider and instructor Csaba Sarközi in Hanstedt, Lower Saxony, who moved to Germany in 1999. The stable schools young horses and presents them at competitions, with a particular specialism in eventing horses. Corrective work for horses with gaps or problems in their training is a further focus. Sarközi also teaches riding lessons and runs clinics in Germany and Hungary, including work with the Hungarian youth development programme.

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Islandpferde vom Lührshoff

Hanstedt, Germany

Islandpferde vom Lührshoff is a boarding yard at Nindorf in the Hanstedt area of the Lüneburg Heath, run by Stefanie Haake, with around fifty Icelandic horses kept in small open-stable groups. Separate groups are run for mares, geldings, senior horses and horses with metabolic conditions, and the yard handles supplementary feeding and medication. Facilities include two dressage arenas, a natural oval track, a lunging circle and a gallop track, with extensive hacking through the surrounding heath. Schooling and riding lessons are available, the yard arranges farrier and veterinary visits, and courses, rallies and social events run through the year.

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Scuderia Hanstedt GmbH&Co.KG

Hanstedt, Germany

Scuderia Hanstedt is a family-run equestrian centre in the Lüneburg Heath at Hanstedt, Lower Saxony. It offers full livery in several box types, with feeding, bedding and daily care handled by qualified staff. Riding instruction covers dressage and jumping, and a riding school with school horses serves children and adults. Horses are also taken in for professional training and coaching, clinics and events are held on site, and hacking country is directly accessible from the yard.

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Antje Koch Pferdeverhaltenstraining

Hannover, Germany

Antje Koch is a horse behaviour trainer based in Hannover, working on the partnership between horse and handler through motivation, trust and respect. She reads and uses the horse's own communication through energy and body language rather than force. Her work covers groundwork on the lead rope, liberty work, loading training, desensitisation and spook-proofing, problem horses, starting young horses and circus tricks. Behavioural consultations are offered in person and online with video analysis.

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DressurWerk Pferdeausbildung Hannover

Hannover, Germany

DressurWerk Pferdeausbildung Hannover is a dressage training business run by Linda Plappert and certified by the German Olympic Sports Confederation. It trains horses and riders from beginner level up to FN competition class M, covering young-horse starting, correction work, in-hand work and classical-baroque schooling. Riders can book lessons, competition support, purchase consultation and holiday cover for their horses. The yard also prepares horses for mare performance tests, sales presentation and international transport.

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Reithalle Lippoldshausen

Hann. Münden, Germany

Reithalle Lippoldshausen, trading as Ausbildungsstall Duchac, is a sport-horse training yard at Hann. Münden in southern Lower Saxony, represented by Patricia Duchac. It offers full livery in its own stabling with a complete care package for the horse. Schooling and backing of sport horses is its core service, together with competition presentation by the yard's riders and clipping, grooming and general horse care. Riding lessons are given on site. The yard also brokers sale horses, including international placements.

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Reitclub Königshofer Heide e.V.

Hamersen, Germany

Reitclub Königshofer Heide e.V. is a dressage-focused club and training yard at Sittensen in Lower Saxony. Riders are coached on the club's own facility, and the trainer's pupils compete regularly at regional level. Horses are schooled on the yard through to competition standard. Produced horses are also offered for sale.

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Reitpferdeausbildung Nasrin Diermeier

Hameln, Germany

Nasrin Diermeier is an FN Trainer B who schools riding horses and teaches on a mobile basis around Hessisch Oldendorf in Lower Saxony, travelling to clients' own yards. Her work follows the German training scale and covers backing and starting young horses, corrective schooling and gymnastic jump training. Lessons are offered to children and adults, alongside in-hand work, long-reining, liberty work, behaviour training and loading training. Pricing is quoted on request, with a fuel-cost share depending on distance.

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Reha-Stall Danecki

Halbemond, Germany

Reha-Stall Danecki is a natural horsemanship and rehabilitation yard in Leezdorf, East Frisia, run by Nastasia Danecki. The work is built on reading a horse's natural behaviour and psychology, establishing leadership through body language, trust and respect rather than force. Services cover schooling and education, trailer-loading training, courses and the rehabilitation of problem horses, alongside general soundness and conditioning work. The approach is discipline-neutral and benefits leisure and competition riders alike.

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Andreas Martin

Hagen im Bremischen, Germany

AM Quarter Horses is Andreas Martin's Foundation Quarter Horse breeding programme at Hagen im Bremischen in Lower Saxony, built on more than 25 years of experience. The aim is robust, versatile, healthy and level-headed horses, blending traditional foundation bloodlines with modern breeding practice. Rather than specialising for a single discipline, the programme produces durable all-rounders suited to a range of western disciplines. Horses are started and trained on the yard and offered for sale, and buyers can get advice on foundation Quarter Horse pedigrees and traits.

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AM HORSE TRAINING | Service rund ums Pferd

Hagen im Bremischen, Germany

AM Horse Training is Andreas Martin's western riding and horse training business at Hagen im Bremischen in Lower Saxony. The work is built on communicating with the horse through trust and positive motivation rather than pressure. Training covers basic and advanced western riding, competition preparation, loading training, and groundwork with foals and young horses. Riding lessons are given to riders at every level, and the business also takes on general horse-handling work for owners.

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Palomino-Farm Gestüt Köhn

Hagen im Bremischen, Germany

Palomino-Farm is a western riding centre and Quarter Horse stud between Bremen and Bremerhaven, in operation for more than forty years and one of the longest-established western yards in Germany. Owner and trainer Torsten Köhn, who trained in the United States, breeds and schools Quarter Horses and Paint Horses that have made a name for themselves in Germany and across Europe. The farm trains client horses in all western disciplines and teaches riders from beginners and leisure riders through to competitors. Facilities include a 20 x 40 m indoor school, a 40 x 60 m outdoor arena, a covered round pen, fifty boxes, a treatment room, large turnout areas and fifteen hectares of adjoining pasture, and full-service livery is offered.

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Hof Beckerode

Hagen am Teutoburger Wald, Germany

Hof Beckerode in Hagen am Teutoburger Wald is a dressage yard run by the Koch family. Horses are schooled to order up to the advanced dressage classes and presented at competition, with additional training sessions arranged as needed. The team also advises on buying and marketing horses and coordinates vet, farrier, vaccination and worming appointments for the horses in its care. The yard works with ambitious amateurs and professionals alike from modern stabling and its own riding hall.

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Vechtehof Egbers

Gölenkamp, Germany

Vechtehof-Egbers is a training and sales yard in Gölenkamp on the Dutch border, run by Wolfgang Egbers with more than forty years in the profession. Certified trainers school horses and riders from basic work through to competition level, with individually tailored sessions. The yard keeps livery horses, markets sale horses of its own and on behalf of clients, and runs dressage clinics and seminars. It also stages its own competitions during the season.

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Pueblo-Lindo

Großenkneten, Germany

Pueblo-Lindo is a small equestrian farm run by Susanne Gläßer at Falsbult near Großenkneten, inside a protected landscape between two nature reserves. The yard boards horses and has a particular focus on retirement livery for older horses that need a quiet place to age well. Alongside boarding it offers horsemanship instruction and guided trail rides, and is registered as a Wanderreitstation for riders travelling through. Holiday programmes for foster children are also run on the farm.

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Gestüt Kastanienhof

Großenkneten, Germany

Gestüt Kastanienhof is a pony stud at Sage-Haast near Großenkneten in Lower Saxony, run by Julia and Timo Coldewey and breeding ponies since 1968. The yard combines stallion keeping, an insemination station with its own modern laboratory, a training operation and a sales business. Its stated aim is performance-ready and genuinely child-friendly ponies. Training covers lungeing, backing and competition preparation for the stud's own and for clients' horses and ponies, and livery places are available. Fresh and frozen semen from the station's stallions can be ordered online.

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ISHOF

Grasberg, Germany

ISHOF is an Icelandic-horse yard at Huxfeld between Grasberg and Fischerhude, north of Bremen, run by the Thordarson family. It combines a riding school with boarding, schooling and horse sales, keeping its horses on large pastures and in open stables. Riding lessons, courses and holiday clinics are offered for children and adults, and trail riding through the surrounding countryside is part of the daily routine. The yard also stands breeding stallions and regularly has horses available for sale.

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SB Horsetraining

Golmbach, Germany

SB Horsetraining is a western riding yard at Klappe in Warbsen, Lower Saxony, run by trainer Stefanie Bull. She teaches riders from complete beginners to advanced level, individually or in groups of up to four, on her own well-schooled Quarter Horses or on the rider's own horse. The yard also takes horses in for training, with an emphasis on a calm, force-free foundation education. Day and weekend clinics, riding-badge courses, children's holiday weeks, youth camps, share-horse arrangements and professional support at shows round out the programme.

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Sarah Lojewski - Ausbildung für Pferd & Mensch

Gleichen, Germany

Sarah Lojewski runs a horse-training and rider-education business in the Göttingen area of Lower Saxony. Her work covers the schooling of horses as well as behaviour training and consultation for horses with handling or trust problems. Owners are coached alongside their horses, and the programme is offered both as individual work and as course formats. Prices, conditions and course dates are published on her website.

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Arkusberg Dienstleistungs- GbR, Pferdepension

Gleichen, Germany

Pferde am Arkusberg is a boarding yard near Gleichen in southern Lower Saxony that keeps horses in open herd husbandry rather than in individual boxes. Two separate herds, one of geldings and one of mares, live out all year with roughly two kilometres of tracks available and about four hours of daily pasture from May to October. Feeding is managed with rationed, low-sugar hay and every horse is watched individually by the resident team. Training and lessons are available on site with resident trainer Sarah Lojewski.

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VivaMotion

Glandorf, Germany

VivaMotion is the riding-training practice of Vivian Mulckhuijse in Glandorf, combining equestrian instruction with a physiotherapy background. The focus is the rider seat and body awareness — balance, posture and conscious movement — so that horse and rider communicate more clearly. Alongside work in the saddle she offers rider fitness and seat schooling, plus groundwork with the horse. Clinics and lectures are run regularly, and lessons are also given at client yards across the region.

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Hylanderhof

Gilten, Germany

Hylanderhof is a horse breeding and sport yard in Gilten, Lower Saxony, run by Sina Dierking. The breeding programme is built around Hanoverian jumping bloodlines, with the yard's own broodmares and stallions; the stallions are presented separately at hylanderhof-hengste.de. Competition horses are produced and campaigned from the sport stable. Sina Dierking also runs a veterinary practice from the same location.

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