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RER Ponies is a riding center offering group, semi-private and private lessons for children and adults. Training rides with the resident trainer are available for riders' own horses and ponies. The farm also offers stalls for boarding personal horses and ponies, plus short-term training. The program includes the US Pony Club curriculum and clinics throughout the year.
Fiddle Leaf Farm is a small family-run horse farm in Rindge, New Hampshire. It offers private, semi-private and group horseback riding lessons, along with horsemanship education. The farm focuses on English riding, dressage and eventing. Classes include Pony Pal sessions for young children, homeschool horsemanship courses and a summer horsemanship camp.
Boston Equestrian Center is an equestrian facility in North Oxford, Massachusetts. It offers horseback riding lessons for boarders and leasers, along with full-board services and 24-hour care for horses. The center also provides horse and rider training and has horses for sale and for lease. Its facilities include an indoor arena, an outdoor arena, and access to trails.
Mountain View Training Center is a full-service equine facility in Granby, Massachusetts. It offers riding lessons from beginner to advanced levels, including private lessons and driving lessons. The center also provides horse sales, boarding and training. Its disciplines include hunter under saddle, saddle seat, western pleasure, dressage and driving. The owner and trainer lives on site.
Independence Stable is a boarding and horse-training facility. It offers full board with individual attention for each horse and accepts a limited number of horses for training. Riding and driving instruction is offered to children and adults. The stable also hosts Dressage schooling shows and clinics. The owner is a professional horse trainer and riding instructor with over 40 years of experience.
Equi-librium offers horseback riding, horse training and horse management education for adults and children. Lessons are available in private, semi-private and group formats, either on the student's own horse or on the lesson horses at Southmowing Stables in Guilford, VT. Dorothy Crosby, a certified Level III Centered Riding instructor and clinician, also travels to other farms to teach lessons, clinics and unmounted workshops. The program also offers myo-fascial release work on horses.
Davis Acres Equestrian Center is a horseback riding school in West Boylston, Massachusetts. It offers horseback riding lessons for riders of all levels, both group and private, along with intro packages for new students. The owner, Kim Davis, is a licensed riding instructor. The focus is on learning horsemanship in a welcoming, low-pressure environment.
Peak Performance Equestrian Center is an equestrian farm offering boarding and training for horses. Services include riding lessons, horse showing, and leasing and sales. A children's summer horsemanship program is also offered. The farm describes its focus as complete training for the all around equestrian.
Connecticut Equestrian Center is an equestrian facility on 96 acres in Coventry, Connecticut. It offers full-board horse boarding with 27 stalls, group and individual turnout, and on-site care by staff and a live-in barn manager. Riding lessons and training programs are offered to boarders and students. The facility has indoor and outdoor arenas, a cross-country field and trails, and hosts annual dressage, cross-country and hunter/jumper shows.
New England Equestrian Center is a riding facility in Vermont that offers private and group riding lessons for riders of all levels, from beginners to advanced. It runs summer horse camps where campers learn horsemanship, ground handling, and riding, with a camp horse show at the end of the week. The center focuses on jumping seat equitation, hunters, and jumpers, and also runs clinics for riders wishing to improve their technique. It also keeps horses in its stables and has boarders.
Emerald-Glen Equestrian Center is a seasonal equestrian facility in Stephentown, New York, that works by appointment. It offers riding lessons with a focus on horsemanship and the education of the whole horse. Boarding is available for students enrolled in its lesson program. The facility also offers rehabilitation for horses and therapeutic riding, and the owners have a background in dressage.
Sage Farm is a dressage-focused facility in Dover, Massachusetts, offering boarding, private lessons and training rides. The farm has 25 stalls, indoor and outdoor rings, and wash stalls. Boarders receive meals, paddock turnout and daily stall cleaning. The farm also runs a children's lesson program in its indoor arena. Riders can bring their own horse or ride one of the farm's trained horses.
Hípica Castillo de Loarre is an active-tourism company offering horse trekking routes, pony rides and riding lessons. It also provides horse boarding in semi-free-range herds or on paddocks, with feed available around the clock. Children's birthday parties and summer riding camps are offered as well. The stated focus is the welfare of the horses, which live in a natural setting.
Eureka Farm Dressage is a horse yard in Harvard, Massachusetts. It offers boarding for horses and serves as a home base for a dressage trainer who has competed from Training Level through Grand Prix. Lessons and full or partial training packages are available to boarders. Truck-in lessons are also offered at the farm.
Hoof n HOPE offers horseback riding lessons focused on the balance seat and classical training of the horse. It provides therapeutic horseback riding and interactive vaulting, similar to gymnastics on horseback. Expressive arts and animal programs are also offered. Services are delivered by Massachusetts state-licensed riding instructors certified through PATH International and other riding methods.
Freedom Reins Therapeutic Riding Center offers therapeutic riding for people of all ages and abilities. Its program also includes equine-assisted learning and other activities aimed at self-confidence, independence and personal growth. The center keeps its own horses for these sessions. Sessions run in set seasonal blocks, and the center has an indoor arena.
Mesa Farm is a diversified farm in Rutland, Massachusetts, where the equestrian program is the main activity. The farm offers riding lessons for all ages, from beginners onward, in English and occasionally Western riding. It also runs interactive vaulting lessons, week-long summer riding programs, and occasional horse training with the owner taking part. The horses also serve as lesson animals and help with farm work.
Ak-Vall Horse Center is an equestrian centre in Santa Susanna on the Maresme coast, near the Montnegre natural park. It offers riding classes for all ages and levels, in groups or individually, and intensive courses during holidays. It also provides pony rides and a pony park for younger children, boarding in paddocks, boxes and corrals, and mountain rides with a monitor. The centre additionally helps with horse sales and purchases.
Aisling Mountain Farm is an equestrian center on a 22-acre property at the base of Mt. Greylock in the Berkshires. It offers private and semi-private riding lessons on its lesson horses and lease riding on some of its horses. The farm runs a therapeutic riding program and hosts equine-assisted psychotherapy sessions with its therapy horses. Day passes let riders bring their own horse to use the arena, fields and trails.
Reindance Farm is a full-service equestrian facility in Hoosick Falls, New York, run by Harry and Adria Diel. It offers dressage training, boarding with lesson packages, instruction, leases and clinics. Boarding includes a separate pasture area for convalescing, broodmare and retired horses. The farm also sells horses and arranges buying trips to Europe.
Bonnie Lea Farm is an equestrian center in Williamstown, Massachusetts, offering horse boarding, riding lessons and trail riding. The farm has about 90 acres with trail access, indoor and outdoor rings, and over 45 stalls. Boarding includes daily turnout, and training board is available for horses prepared by the farm's trainer. The farm also leases and sells horses and hosts a college riding team.
Amara Farm is an equestrian facility in North Pownal, Vermont. It offers horse boarding, riding lessons for beginners through advanced riders, and horse training. The farm also sells horses. Its focus is eventing and dressage, with cross country jumps and trails on the property.
Kimberly Farms is a riding stable in southwestern Vermont with a 60-acre horse farm. It offers riding lessons in English, Western, trail riding and bareback, with private lessons and a Saturday morning horsemanship club. The stable also runs trail rides on its own horses and summer horse camps. The farm keeps a permanent herd of 15 to 20 horses, many of them rescued.
South Shore Riding Stables offers riding instruction for riders at every level. Its lesson horses and ponies range from beginner ponies to equitation horses. The stable also offers leases and horse sales. Lessons can be booked through the website.
