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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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Hans-Jürgen Wiebusch

Fredenbeck, Germany

Hans-Jürgen Wiebusch Sportpferde is a sport-horse dealing and training stable in Fredenbeck-Wedel, between Bremen and Hamburg in the heart of the Hanoverian breeding region. For more than 25 years the yard has bought young, talented horses from breeding areas across Germany, produced them under saddle and sold them on to well-matched riders. The stock ranges from young show-jumping prospects and experienced course horses to young dressage horses and quality leisure horses, and the team will also source a specific horse to order. Hans-Jürgen Wiebusch competes to advanced (S) level himself and is supported by two in-house rider-trainers. A 20 x 60 m indoor school and a large outdoor arena with a jumping course let buyers try horses in any weather.

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Müllers Hoff Islandpferde

Farven, Germany

Müllers Hoff is an Icelandic horse stud at Farven in northern Germany, run for around thirty years by IPZV trainer Nana Degenhardt. About a hundred Icelandic horses live on the farm; the yard breeds from its own stallions, raises youngstock and sells horses of every age. Riding holidays, courses and camps are offered for adults, children, families and youth groups, together with regular riding lessons. Further services include livery, professional schooling (Beritt), a display group, a tack shop and the farm as an event location.

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Dressurpferde Fehmbusch

Eyendorf, Germany

Hof Fehmbusch is a dressage breeding and training yard at Eyendorf in the Lüneburg Heath, run by qualified trainer Andrea Engeler-Bading. The farm breeds and raises its own dressage prospects and starts young horses systematically before developing them towards competition. Riders of all levels can book qualified instruction and clinics, and horses are taken in for schooling, correction work and competition presentation. Talented dressage horses are placed with buyers in Germany and abroad. The yard also offers rehabilitation and conditioning work for sport horses.

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Hof Klausing

Eydelstedt, Germany

Hof Klausing is a traditional family-run dressage yard at Scharrel in the Gemeinde Eydelstedt. Around 30 training and competition horses are stabled in its modern, generously laid-out barns, with a 20 × 40 m indoor school and a 20 × 60 m outdoor arena giving good working conditions in any weather. Heiko Klausing, holder of the Golden Riding Badge, trains dressage horses up to advanced level with a professional team, specialising in the education of young dressage horses. Several Bundeschampions and top-priced lots at the Oldenburg elite auctions in Vechta have come out of his training, and horses are offered for sale.

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Sportpferde Wolke

Essen (Oldenburg), Germany

Sportpferde Wolke is an equestrian centre in Essen in the southern Oldenburg Münsterland, run by Daniel Wolke. The yard trains both horse and rider, with a particular focus on producing young show jumpers and marketing them. Modern stabling and a generous outdoor complex support schooling from the first backing through to competition. Alongside horse and rider training the business runs clinics and offers mental coaching for riders, tailored to each client on request.

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Reitanlage Essel

Essel, Germany

Reitanlage Essel is a full-service equestrian yard in Essel near Schwarmstedt in Lower Saxony, run by Svenja Rittmeyer and Jürgen Oltrogge. It combines livery stabling with riding instruction, training placements for horses in work, and outdoor arenas for schooling. Riders based at the yard compete on the regional show circuit, and leisure riding activities are organised alongside the sport. Its position just off the A7 makes it easy to reach from Mellendorf, Winsen, Wietze and Walsrode.

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Sportpferde Vaske

Emstek, Germany

Sportpferde Vaske is a competition and training stable in Halen near Emstek, in the Oldenburger Münsterland, run by Otto Vaske for more than 25 years. The yard schools horses of all ages with an emphasis on age-appropriate, horse-friendly progression, and prepares them for their first shows. Facilities include an indoor school, two large outdoor arenas at the edge of the woods, a separate lunging ring, a horse walker, and roomy boxes with paddock and pasture turnout. The team also brokers and markets horses internationally, from youngsters to top-quality sport horses.

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Zucht- und Ausbildungsstall Rump

Emstek, Germany

Zucht- und Ausbildungsstall Rump is a breeding and training yard at Drantum in the municipality of Emstek, in the Oldenburger Münsterland, run by Markus and Sarah Rump. The farm breeds its own foals and takes young horses through their education under saddle. Schooled and competition-proven horses are offered for sale directly from the yard. The successes of horses bred and trained there are documented on the site.

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Hengststation René Tebbel

Emsbüren, Germany

Hengststation René Tebbel is a stallion station, breeding and training operation in Emsbüren in the Emsland, founded by the international show jumper René Tebbel. The station stands a collection of licensed show-jumping stallions and publishes its breeding terms, with fresh and frozen semen ordered and shipped directly from the station. Breeders and buyers also find sale horses and a dedicated foal marketplace. Alongside the breeding business the yard produces and trains sport horses. The station hosts its own RT Fohlenchampionat foal championship.

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Hof Garlebsen

Einbeck, Germany

Hof Garlebsen near Einbeck is a livery and training yard run by Josephine Neumann and Marco Stappenbeck. Horses live in generous boxes with paddocks, large pastures and reinforced winter paddocks with hay feeding, and boarding packages are put together service by service. Dressage lessons are given one-to-one at every level from beginner to competition, and horses are taken in for schooling and correction as full or part training. The yard also reconditions horses after injury, with Equitron treatment, feed management and coordination with the vet.

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Islandpferdegestüt Leinebergland

Einbeck, Germany

Islandpferdegestüt Leinebergland is an Icelandic-horse stud and riding yard at Haieshausen near Einbeck in southern Lower Saxony, run by Lea Gerbershagen. It offers riding lessons from beginner to advanced level, gaited-horse training, guided trail rides and boarding in several formats. The yard breeds Icelandic horses and puts a strong emphasis on animal welfare, sustainable land management and biodiversity on its pastures. Clinics, seminars and farm experience days for families, schools and groups run through the year.

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Vet Train Carolin Hogrefe

Eickeloh, Germany

VET-Train is the training yard of veterinarian Carolin Hogrefe in Eickeloh, Lower Saxony, where the training methods are built on a veterinary understanding of how the equine body works. Work covers seat training and posture diagnostics for riders, groundwork, behavioural shaping, Working Equitation, and circus dressage and liberty work. The yard also takes livery horses, manages feeding and care programmes, and raises youngstock. Guest accommodation is available for riders travelling in for training.

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Team Ixes

Ehra-Lessien, Germany

Team Ixes is a training and sales yard on the Hauptstraße in Ehra-Lessien, Lower Saxony, run by Henrike and Birgita Habermann. Horses are schooled for dressage and show jumping, and dressage horses, jumpers and ponies from the yard are offered for sale. Physiotherapy and dental correction are provided for the horses in its care. The site is a full livery facility with an indoor school, outdoor arena, solarium, wash box and turnout paddocks.

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Manja Kärsch-Kleine

Egestorf, Germany

Manja Kärsch-Kleine runs a mobile equine physiotherapy practice out of Egestorf, covering roughly a fifty-kilometre radius across the Lüneburg Heath and towards Hamburg. Treatment is put together individually from a range of techniques including massage, fascia work, dry needling, acupuncture, vibration therapy, osteopathy and bloodletting. Alongside the bodywork she schools horses and takes horses in for backing and training. She also teaches riders of all ages and abilities and does groundwork and trust-building exercises with horse and owner together.

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Manege Biessum V.O.F.

Eemsdelta, Netherlands

Manege Biessum is an FNRS-affiliated riding centre on the edge of the historic terp village of Biessum at Delfzijl in Groningen. It teaches horse and pony riding in group lessons and gives private tuition in jumping and dressage, as well as carriage-driving lessons. The facility has two indoor schools, two floodlit outdoor arenas, stabling for around seventy horses and ponies, a wash bay, a solarium and some thirteen hectares of grazing, and it takes livery horses. The yard breaks horses to saddle and to harness, guides buyers through purchases, and runs a pony team playing horseball. Its stalhouderij hires out carriages, wedding coaches and a horse tram.

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Stal Vrieling

Eemsdelta, Netherlands

Stal Jur Vrieling is a show-jumping yard in Holwierde, Groningen, trading internationally as Jur Vrieling Sporthorses. The stable breeds, produces and campaigns jumping horses, competing at national and international level up to 1.40m and 1.50m classes. Young and made horses from the yard are offered for sale to sport riders. Training and competition results are documented in an ongoing photo and video record on the site.

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Unsere kleine Ranch

Edemissen, Germany

Unsere kleine Ranch is the yard behind Life Way Dreams, the horse training and consulting practice of Jennifer Reupke in Edemissen, Lower Saxony. She advises owners on housing, feeding and day-to-day management, and builds individual training plans covering groundwork, backing and ridden basics. The approach is aimed at horses that are anxious, difficult or recovering from health problems, and stresses trust and clear communication over pressure. Course material and coaching are also delivered online through a member area.

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Buscheberger Hof

Echem, Germany

Der Buscheberger Hof is an equestrian yard established in 2021 on the Elbe in the Lüneburg district. It teaches riders in both private and group lessons and takes horses in for schooling (Beritt) as well as rehabilitation work. Horses are kept in boxes with paddocks, and the yard has a riders' lounge and its own small saddlery and riding-wear counter. The team also runs a quarterly "Center of Competence" event series, an annual riding tour and its own tournaments and gatherings.

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Reit- und Fahrverein Holzerode e.V.

Ebergötzen, Germany

Reit- und Fahrverein Holzerode e.V. is a riding and driving club in southern Lower Saxony that specialises in eventing and driving. Its grounds include an indoor arena, outdoor arenas, lunging facilities and a cross-country course used for training and competition. The club runs riding instruction, clinics, cross-country training days and riding-badge courses, and stages its own eventing competitions. External riders are welcome to use the cross-country terrain by prior arrangement, and guest boxes are available for visiting horses.

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Ulrike Bencke

Düdenbüttel, Germany

Ulrike Bencke teaches biomechanically correct riding from her base in Düdenbüttel, Lower Saxony. Her lessons treat seat and posture as the route to freer, healthier movement in the horse and to fewer riding-related injuries. Alongside seat training and general instruction she works with cavalletti and pole exercises, lungeing and groundwork, and runs preparation courses for German riding badges. Workshops and seminars are also given at yards belonging to clients, and lessons can be booked as individual packages.

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Braaklander Hof

Dötlingen, Germany

Braaklander Hof is a family-run breeding and riding yard in Neerstedt near Dötlingen with more than twenty years of experience breeding German Riding Ponies and Alt-Oldenburger horses under the Braaklander prefix. Their horses are bred for good temperament combined with performance and are used in dressage, jumping, cross-country and driving. Alongside breeding, the yard offers riding instruction from lunge and seat lessons through to classical dressage and jumping training, a pony school for children, and young-horse education. Horses are also boarded on the farm, and homebred stock is offered for sale.

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Ausbildungsstall Wiesner

Dötlingen, Germany

Ausbildungsstall Wiesner is a dressage training yard at Wildeshausen in Lower Saxony run by Oliver Wiesner. Training plans are built around the individual horse, with the emphasis on trust and clear communication rather than drilling. The yard offers full livery coordinated with vet, osteopath and farrier, private lessons, competition preparation, lungeing in dialogue, groundwork, free jumping, pole work, track work and loading training. School horses are available for riders without their own horse, and clinics run regularly.

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Pferde auf Uhlenborg

Dörverden, Germany

Pferde auf Uhlenborg is a livery yard and riding school at Dörverden in Lower Saxony, run by Andrea Kleinmeier. Horses are kept on a large paddock trail, an allergy-friendly trail or in open stabling, with quality forage available around the clock. Teaching follows the academic art of riding, both in hand and under saddle, in private lessons on the owner's horse or a school horse and in group courses, clinics and training weekends. The yard also has an indoor school and training grounds, a salt chamber and a solarium.

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Hendrik Gäbel Ausbildungsstall

Duderstadt, Germany

Ausbildungsstall Hendrik Gäbel is a horse training barn run by Hendrik Gäbel, a certified Pferdewirtschaftsmeister, together with Charlotte Hagen, based in Nesselröden near Duderstadt. Since 2000 the stable has specialised in the careful, methodical training of talented young horses and their preparation for tournament sport, mare performance tests, and auctions. The facility offers well-ventilated stabling and surrounding pastures for regular turnout, alongside physiotherapy and osteopathy support for horses through Charlotte Hagen. Gäbel also works internationally, coaching students abroad and serving as a test director for the Canadian warmblood breeding association.

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