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Sara Bernstein - Pferdetraining

Gifhorn, Germany

Sara Bernstein - Pferdetraining is a mobile horse-training business based in Gifhorn, Lower Saxony. Sara-Maya Bernstein starts and educates young horses, works on corrective and behavioural retraining, and coaches owners in handling their own horses. Further offerings include desensitisation and hacking-out training as well as mobile riding lessons at the client's own yard. Her approach was shaped by working with horses in Australia and is presented as fair and sustainable schooling.

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Gestüt Birkenheide

Gifhorn, Germany

Gestüt Birkenheide is a stud and livery yard on the edge of Gifhorn in Lower Saxony, run by Nicole and Friedrich Sievers. Horses are stabled in modern boxes with generous outdoor paddocks, and the yard emphasises species-appropriate keeping. Facilities include indoor and outdoor arenas with professional footing, lungeing circles, wash and grooming bays, a solarium and heated tack and lounge rooms. Alongside the livery business the farm keeps its own broodmares and rears the resulting youngstock. Training is offered for both horse and rider, and homebred horses are sold from the yard.

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MP Western Freizeitreiten Marina Perner

Gifhorn, Germany

Marina Perner runs a western riding and horsemanship school at Gifhorn-Wilsche in Lower Saxony. Lessons cover groundwork, seat and aids, trail, ranch riding and ranch trail, an introduction to cattle work and guided hacks. She is an Art of Horsemanship trainer and prepares riders for EWU qualifications from the horse handler's licence and western riding badges through to Trainer C and B. Courses, seminars and lungeing badges are offered nationwide, and she also travels to clients' own yards.

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DR. SANDRA RUZICKA

Giesen, Germany

Dr. Sandra Ruzicka teaches an integrative approach to horse training and rehabilitation that brings together functional anatomy, learning theory and body work. She helps owners trace behavioural and physical problems back to their root cause instead of treating isolated symptoms, and works across all riding disciplines. Her services include on-site intensive sessions, online movement analysis, practical courses and ongoing online instruction, plus lectures and clinics for event organisers. She also runs a two-year certification programme for integrative movement therapists and has published books on the subject.

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Barbara Bensmann

Georgsmarienhütte, Germany

Barbara Bensmann teaches natural horsemanship in Hagen am Teutoburger Wald, working in the tradition of Pat Parelli. The focus is on building a trusting, communicative partnership between horse and handler through ground work and ridden work. Horses are taken in for training and rehabilitation, and riders are coached individually towards the same harmony-based approach. Handmade American western saddles are also sold from the yard.

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Eckjans Equestrian Globe GmbH

Georgsmarienhütte, Germany

Equestrian Globe GmbH is an equestrian industry consultancy based near Osnabrück and the official representative of the German Equestrian Federation (FN) for Greater China. It delivers German training, education and certification programmes abroad, including performance medals, trainer certificates and equine management qualifications. The team also plans and runs competitions, fairs and equestrian entertainment events, and coordinates German representation at them. Further services cover horse sales and consulting on feeding, breeding, equipment and arena footing.

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Leo König Pferdehandel

Gehrde, Germany

Leo König runs a sport-horse operation at Gehrde in the Osnabrücker Land, working under the line "from foal to champion". The yard breeds and produces show jumpers, keeps its own stallions and raises youngstock through to competition age. Horses are schooled on site and offered for sale from a standing sales string. Visitors are received at the yard by arrangement.

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Andreas Hinkelbein

Geestland, Germany

Andreas Hinkelbein runs a breeding and training yard at Ringstedt near Bremerhaven in Lower Saxony. The business breeds sport horses and presents its own foals, youngstock and broodmares. Alongside the breeding operation the yard schools horses and trains riders, with separate programmes for each. Horses bred and produced on the premises are offered for sale directly from the yard.

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Moheba-Gestüt

Geestland, Germany

Moheba-Gestüt is an Arabian horse breeding and training centre at Langen near Bremerhaven, run by Dr. med. vet. Jutta Ginsel and Willi Ewen. The stud has bred straight Egyptian Arabians for more than thirty years and has also produced Arabian-Berbers since 2003. It stands stallions at its own covering station, raises and sells young stock, and trains both horses and riders. The yard additionally sells selected riding equipment and hand-made leather goods.

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Araber Reit- und Ausbildungszentrum

Geestland, Germany

The Araber Reit- und Ausbildungszentrum near Bremerhaven has bred straight Egyptian Arabians for more than 30 years and Arab-Barb horses since 2003. Stallions, mares and foals from the stud's own breeding programme are presented on the yard and offered for sale. The centre also schools horses and trains riders on the premises. Alongside the equestrian side it makes hand-crafted leather goods and sells a selected range of riding equipment and accessories.

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Marschalk-Pecksen

Geestland, Germany

Reit- und Zuchtbetrieb Marschalk-Pecksen is a family-run riding and breeding yard at Elmlohe near Geestland in Lower Saxony. The yard trains both riders and horses, keeps a string of school horses and publishes a weekly lesson timetable for riders at every level. It also offers livery for privately owned horses and runs its own breeding programme, with broodmares kept in regular light work well into pregnancy. Horses bred and produced on the farm are offered for sale.

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Gestüt auf dem Mühlenberge

Geestland, Germany

Gestüt auf dem Mühlenberge is a Hanoverian and Trakehner breeding operation run by Dr. Gudrun and Udo Strecker at Elmlohe, part of Geestland in the Cuxland district of Lower Saxony. The stud has been breeding and rearing sport horses for more than fifteen years and follows its youngstock from foal through to riding age. Horses are backed and schooled on site before being offered for sale. The farm has its own riding facility for the training work. Sales horses are also advertised through the e-horses marketplace.

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JP Westerntraining

Geeste, Germany

JP Westerntraining is a western riding school at Dalum in the Emsland district, run by Jenny Pool, a qualified horse manager (B.Sc. agr., Pferdewirtin Haltung & Service) and EWU Trainer C. She teaches western riding to beginners and experienced riders in a deliberately relaxed setting, using the yard's school horses, and takes horses in for training. Lessons can be booked online. The business also operates a mobile salt chamber.

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Islandpferde-Hölterhof

Geeste, Germany

Islandpferde Hölterhof is an Icelandic-horse breeding yard and riding school at Dalum in Geeste, Emsland, run by Manfred Krüssel and in operation for more than forty years. The farm breeds from its own stallions and mares, raises youngstock and sells both trained and untrained horses. Certified instructors give riding lessons on the yard and at riders own premises, and external courses run through the year. Guided hacks through the surrounding Emsland countryside and boarding in boxes or at pasture complete the offer.

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Stall Elbers

Garrel, Germany

Stall Elbers is a fourth-generation family yard in Garrel, Lower Saxony, where horses have been at the centre of the business throughout. Its strengths are the breeding and the schooling of show jumpers. Training is deliberately gentle and matched to each horse's age, with species-appropriate keeping as the starting point. The riding facility offers good conditions for horse and rider alike, and the team works with patience and empathy to develop both.

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Stall Auffarth

Ganderkesee, Germany

Stall Auffarth is a competition and livery yard in Bergedorf near Ganderkesee, Lower Saxony, owned by eventing rider Sandra Auffarth. The yard takes livery horses and offers schooling under saddle and riding instruction for owners and their horses. Its own cross-country course, complete with an ebb-and-flow arena, hosts training days and eventing competitions open to visiting riders. Show jumping and eventing horses are produced and sold from the stable, which also documents its breeding successes.

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Fahrsport Jasmin Jentges

Ganderkesee, Germany

Fahrsport Jasmin Jentges is a carriage-driving yard and training business in Ganderkesee, Lower Saxony. Jasmin Jentges is a qualified Trainer B for driving and teaches beginners as well as competition drivers. Services include driving lessons, ground work, schooling horses and ponies to harness, and preparation for the German driving badges (Fahrabzeichen). Taster courses and pleasure-driving outings round out the programme. The emphasis throughout is on horse welfare and a harmonious partnership between driver and horse.

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Sportpferde Scheel

Ganderkesee, Germany

Sportpferde Scheel is a small family yard in Schönemoor near Ganderkesee, run by Uwe and Melanie Scheel together with their livery community. Its main focus is schooling and marketing talented young sport horses, and the team also helps buyers find a horse elsewhere if nothing on the yard suits. The stable offers retirement livery for horses that have finished their competition careers, including feeding, mucking out and daily turnout. Extensive pastures allow year-round grass keeping for horses that need a quieter routine.

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Pacheco Ecuestre GmbH & Co. KG

Fürstenau, Germany

Pacheco Ecuestre GmbH & Co. KG is the sport-horse business of Adolfo Pacheco, based at Kellinghausen near Fürstenau and Ankum in Lower Saxony. It specialises in the training, competing and sale of show jumpers, hunters and equitation horses. Young horses are schooled towards their future careers, and Adolfo Pacheco competes successfully with horses from four years old through to Grand Prix level. Horses belonging to private owners are also taken in for training or for sale, backed by an international network in the sport-horse market.

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HN Equitation

Friesoythe, Germany

HN Equitation in Friesoythe brings together the breeding of warmblood sport horses and classical horsemanship, run by Hannah Nett. Horses and riders are trained with an emphasis on health, sound long-term development and clear communication rather than quick results. School horses schooled to a high level are available for lessons. Riders are taught to develop their own feel and perception alongside their horse's education.

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Reiten in Balance Göttingen

Friedland, Germany

Reiten in Balance is a riding-instruction and horsemanship business run by Ursl Hübner, a physiotherapist and qualified FN trainer, based at Friedland south of Göttingen. Lessons are given either mobile across the Göttingen district or at her own facility, and cover seat work using the Centered Riding method of Sally Swift, groundwork and horsemanship. She also takes on behavioural problems such as aggression and loading difficulties, and supports riders working through anxiety in the saddle. Intensive weekend courses with accommodation, stable seminars on requested topics and guidance for buyers viewing horses complete the offering.

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Gut Lehmweide

Friedeburg, Germany

Gut Lehmweide is a specialist rearing and boarding yard at Wiesede near Friedeburg in East Frisia. The business takes in foals and young horses for species-appropriate rearing in age-matched groups, looks after broodmares through pregnancy and foaling, and starts young horses under saddle. Around twenty hectares of pasture, large-format stabling, paddocks and prepared riding surfaces support daily turnout in all weathers. Training is deliberately unhurried and pressure-free, with individual attention every day.

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AS Sportpferde

Freren, Germany

AS Sportpferde is a sport-horse training yard in Freren, Lower Saxony, run by qualified Pferdewirtin Amelie Schunke. Horses come in for schooling, covering young-horse basics, corrective work for horses with gaps in their education, and competition preparation, and are presented at shows. Riders can book individual lessons or join clinics on cavaletti and pole work, jumping and trick riding. The yard also prepares stallions for licensing and presentation, and markets horses for sale.

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Gut Neuensteden

Freiburg (Elbe), Germany

Gut Neuensteden is a breeding and training yard at Freiburg an der Elbe, set on a listed thatched half-timbered courtyard farm whose origins reach back to the seventeenth century. Hanoverian horses have been bred here in the Kehdingen region for more than three hundred years, and the yard today produces Hanoverian and Oldenburg sport horses alongside a pony breeding programme. Mares are selected for sound character, health and willingness, and foals grow up on wide pastures at the Elbe estuary. Young horses are handled from foalhood and then brought on quietly through their basic training, with homebred horses offered for sale.

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