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L'Orée is an equestrian centre in Gahard, near Rennes, set in the forest. It offers full livery with daily care, turnout in meadows and paddocks, and a covered arena. The riding school takes riders from age 4 with lessons on horseback organised by level and age. The centre also runs a pony club and a horse club, and riders can take forest rides from the yard.
Le Cheval de 3 is a multi-activity equine centre in Espelette, in the Basque Country. The site has a covered riding arena, an outdoor arena, and stabling for horses and ponies. It offers a riding school and boarding for horses. It also runs individual sessions for adults and children that work on emotions through the relationship with the horse.
Centre équestre Appaloosa is an equestrian centre in Capbreton, in the Landes forest near the Atlantic beaches. It offers riding lessons for beginners and experienced riders, as well as guided rides in the forest and along the coast. The centre also offers horse boarding, including paddock options. The site describes the centre as approved by the French equestrian federation (FFE) and open all year.
Olhaldea is an equestrian centre in Sare in the Basque Country, France, specialised in riding for leisure and learning. It runs a riding club at its farm, where horses live mainly in pastures or in boxes and stables depending on the weather. It organises horse rides in nature, from short outings for experienced riders to longer rides of two and a half to three hours. It also organises multi-day riding trips across the Basque Country and into Aragon and Rioja in Spain.
L'Écrin de Jaspe is an equestrian centre in Saint-Beauzile in the Tarn. It offers riding lessons for all levels, including sessions for young children, and riding holidays with your own horse or with horses from the estate. Horses can be kept at the paddock with hay available. The centre practises ethological horsemanship, a gentle and respectful approach to the horse. Guest accommodation and nature activities are also available on the estate.
The Centre Équestre d'Arcachon is a riding centre in central Arcachon, welcoming beginners, confident riders, horse owners and visitors throughout the year. It runs riding lessons on a weekly planning for all ages and levels, and offers courses during each school holiday. Club horses are available through half-board formulas that combine group lessons, private lessons and free riding. The centre also offers boarding for horses and presents the Jumping des Sables show-jumping competition on its website.
Les Poneys Du Fresquel is an equestrian centre in Alzonne, between Castelanaudary and Carcassonne. It offers riding to people of all ages, from children from age 2 to adults, with a suitable stable of mounts and qualified supervision. Lessons are individualised to each rider's level, expectations and goals. The centre is set in a natural environment near the Fresquel river.
Club Hippique EQUI-VAL offers riding for all levels, including group and private lessons, introductory and advanced courses, and grade passing. It also welcomes groups and riders with disabilities, and offers pony games, trail riding, carriage driving and an introduction to vaulting. The club provides livery for owners' horses, with formulas covering pasture or stable housing, feeding and daily work. It also sells sport horses and ponies and trains future equestrian professionals.
Club Hippique de Pont l'Abbé is a riding club near Quimper in Brittany that welcomes riders aged 3 to 77 throughout the year. It offers riding lessons for children and adults, trail rides, courses, group visits and horse boarding. The club has a covered arena, several sand arenas, a cross-country course and 25 hectares of pasture in a wooded setting. Its riders also take part in competitions.
The Centre Équestre Lyon-Parilly is a riding centre in Vénissieux near Lyon. It offers riding lessons for beginners and professionals, as well as riding for leisure and competition. The centre also takes in horses and ponies on full or half livery, with horses kept on straw or shavings and fed hay and a flaked feed. It has a show-jumping (C.S.O) competition team.
Académie Equi-Libre is a riding academy with two sites. Its poney club in La Celle-Saint-Cloud offers lessons for young riders from age 3, adapted to each level. The owners' livery in Bièvres provides housing and care for clients' horses along with personalised coaching. The academy also runs a competition programme covering several disciplines, including show jumping, dressage, vaulting and hunter.
Poney Club La Cabriole was founded in July 2005. The club offers riding lessons and several disciplines, including dressage, show jumping, vaulting and hacking or trail rides. Horse boarding is available for owners. Lessons, day and half-day courses, and summer courses of 1 to 5 days are offered, and riders can take their galop exams at the end of the school year or during a course.
Les Crins du Col is a small family-run equestrian farm in the Quercy Blanc area near Cahors, France. It offers pony and horse activities and riding outings on marked routes from the property. The farm takes in a limited number of horses, ponies and donkeys on livery. It also welcomes guests' horses for short stays during holidays.
The Centre Equestre Albigeois is a riding centre on a 20-hectare site overlooking Albi, run by professional instructors together with its members' association. It offers riding lessons for beginners to advanced riders from age 4, plus competition training in show jumping and cross-country. Holiday riding courses are open to non-members, and special sessions are held for people with disabilities. Riding is mainly classical, on horses and ponies.
The Centre équestre des millières is a riding centre run with a pony club. It offers year-round riding lessons for children from age 4, for beginners and more experienced riders alike. Instructors adapt the sessions to suit either initiation or competition goals. The centre also runs holiday courses (stages) during school holidays.
Cheval Senior offers riding for people of any age, with a method designed to let adults learn to ride in open countryside. It runs riding sessions and multi-day initiation courses built around the horse, its behaviour and riding in nature. Sessions start with approaching and preparing the horse, followed by rides on trained horses suited to the method. Accommodation in gîtes and guest rooms is available at the Certes hamlet near Gaudiès.
Ecole Tango Equestre offers riding lessons, courses and coaching with horses, taught on foot, mounted or in harness. The approach draws on the movement principles of Argentine tango and focuses on body awareness and harmonious communication between rider and horse. Individual lessons, short courses and card-based sessions are offered, and the programme is adapted to each person's level. Horse-assisted therapy and coaching for people are part of the offer, and the business is based in Alsace, France.
The Centre Équestre de l’Espérance is a riding centre in Rabastens-de-Bigorre in the Hautes-Pyrénées, founded in 2020. It offers riding lessons for all levels, from young children on ponies to adults, as well as hacks of 30 minutes or full days. The centre also provides horse boarding in boxes or at pasture for owners' horses and breeds horses and ponies for leisure and competition.
Les Cavaliers de Reit is an equestrian club in the Kochersberg countryside, about 20 minutes from Strasbourg and Saverne. The club runs a pony club where people learn and improve their riding. It also operates an owner's stable on its 10 hectares of land. The facilities include an arena, a riding ground (carrière) and six paddocks.
Equi Loisir is a riding centre in Oyré, in the Vienne department of France. It offers riding lessons for horses and ponies and rides out in the surrounding countryside. Owners can board their horses at the centre, with daily supervision and individual care. The centre also trains young horses and hosts group visits such as youth leisure centres.
Walthour Equestrian Academy is a horse training facility in Savannah, Georgia, founded in 2007 by owner and head trainer Chloe Paddison Eddleman. The academy teaches horsemanship and riding in the hunt seat discipline, with a focus on training skills alongside proper technique and form. It runs monthly Barn Days, summer camps and clinics for riders. The facility also offers private, full-care boarding. Enrollment for riding students is limited, with a waiting list, and riders must be at least six years old.
Oasis Farm is a horse riding facility in Woodside, California, serving the greater Bay Area. It offers Hunter/Jumper and dressage lessons for riders, with a focus on show jumping and competitive training. The farm also teaches riders how to train their own horses and how riding position and equipment affect the horse. Lessons are led by trainers Janeen Smith and Colin Daly.
Cœur des Sages is an Icelandic horse farm in France. It breeds Icelandic horses in a herd setting with large paddocks and trails. The farm keeps clients' horses, including young, senior and retired horses, and provides professional care. It also offers riding lessons and horse rides as part of its adventure holidays.
Olive Hill Sporthorses is a hunter/jumper barn on Huffman Mill Pike on the north side of Lexington, Kentucky. The barn offers horse boarding with stalls, indoor and outdoor arenas, and turnout paddocks. Training programs are customized for each horse and rider, and lessons are offered. The business also handles sale horses and shows.
