Cours, enseignement et travail à pied — un centre pour apprendre ou faire progresser un cheval.
The Poney Club du Rosson is a pony club located in the Monts du Lyonnais near Larajasse, operating for about 20 years. It welcomes children from age 2 up to teenagers. The club offers riding sessions in groups, including classic and teen lessons, plus pony camps, themed days and children's birthday parties. Its stated aim is to help children grow up well through contact with ponies.
Poney Club de Mornant is a riding club in Mornant near Lyon, offering riding lessons for children and adults from beginner to advanced levels. It runs riding courses during school holidays and pony walks for young children. Lessons are held in small groups of up to 10 riders, with progression adapted to each rider. The club's activities take place outdoors with its ponies.
Ecuries des Ollagnons offers box and paddock livery for horses, with daily monitoring and care of each horse. It is a riding centre in the Monts du Lyonnais, about 30 minutes from Lyon and Saint-Étienne. On-site instructors handle horse work as well as group and private riding lessons. The facilities include covered and outdoor arenas, a jumping course and 15 paddocks.
Écurie Julia Blondel is a horse yard offering boarding in boxes or on paddocks, with hay available at will and turnout included. Weekly small-group lessons are part of the boarding packages, and the yard has a sand arena, an indoor riding hall and trails leaving from the stables. Julia Blondel, a professional rider and teacher of ethological riding, also prepares young horses and supports riders preparing for competition. The yard runs themed courses and mental preparation sessions throughout the year.
Gold Coast Equestrian is an equestrian centre in Old Brookville, Long Island, offering riding lessons for children and adults, from beginner to competitive riders. It runs individual and group lessons on its own school horses, along with training programmes. The centre also provides boarding with box stalls and camps and clinics. Its facilities include indoor and outdoor arenas.
Équi'Libre Les Eygauds is an equestrian centre in Bas-en-Basset, Haute-Loire. It offers riding lessons for children, teenagers and adults, including baby pony classes. The centre also provides boarding in boxes or paddocks and shared pasture, and organises rides and multi-day horse trekking trips. It also offers training courses such as eventing and TREC and sells its own young horses.
Riderland - Ecurie des Chartreux is an equestrian centre in Saulx-les-Chartreux, Essonne, near Paris. It offers year-round riding for children and adults, from beginners to competition riders. The centre provides horses and ponies selected for their calm temperament. It has two indoor arenas, two outdoor arenas, a cross-country and TREC course, and access to a forest.
Ecuries des 3 Vallées is a riding centre in Beauzac, near the town centre, in a green setting with a family atmosphere. It offers recreational riding for all levels, from baby pony to adult, including group lessons in the arena, outdoor work on varied terrain, games, hacks and day rides. The stable keeps ponies and horses that live together in outdoor herds. Membership and quarterly lesson packages are offered for the 2026/2027 season.
Écurie Pont-Bayard is a riding centre in La Talaudière, near Saint-Étienne, France. It offers horse boarding in boxes, paddock and field arrangements, and young horse breaking (débourrage). Riding lessons are given to children from age 4 and to adults, both private and group, and riding camps run during school holidays. The centre also prepares riders and ponies for show jumping competitions.
The Farm at Millstone Oaks is a family-owned and operated farm. It offers riding lessons, including private, semi-private, family and tiny tot lessons for riders at different levels. It also runs homeschool horsemanship classes and summer camps that combine horsemanship, activities and riding, usually ending with a horse show for families. The farm is run by a riding instructor and her family, and the lessons are tailored to each rider's level and ability.
Ecurie de La Fontaine is a family-run equestrian yard in Le Bru, near Charmensac in the Cantal region of France. It operates as an owners' yard and pony club, and it breeds Connemara and Welsh horses and ponies for sport and leisure. Horses and ponies are kept on about 100 hectares, mostly turned out in herds with hay and water. The yard offers livery and half-board for riders in various disciplines, including riding, trekking, show jumping and dressage.
Silverdown Stables is a livery yard on the edge of Harwell Village in Oxfordshire. The facilities include an indoor school and an outdoor school suitable for dressage or jumping. Riding lessons are available from a qualified instructor, and there is access to a bridle path leading onto the Downs. The yard was established in 1954 and has room for up to eighteen horses.
L’équiMargeride is a horse farm in the Margeride region of France. It offers rides and treks of different lengths, from short outings for young children to multi-day rides, adapted to each rider's level. It also provides riding instruction and colt handling and breaking services. The farm breeds Auvergne horses and keeps its horses barefoot and ridden without a bit.
Écurie Canadel is a stable that breeds Canadian horses, the national breed of Quebec. It offers riding lessons and horse training. It also provides full-board boarding for horses, with access to a five-stall stable, an outdoor riding paddock, round pen and hiking trails. The stable is located in Petit-Saguenay, Quebec.
Écurie de la Source Pompadour is a family riding stable in Arlanc, in the Livradois Forez area near Ambert. It runs riding school lessons at several levels, with a planned course schedule for 2025-2026 and holiday courses. The yard also offers livery for owners and half-board, with an arena and a riding ring available to owners and boarders. Opening hours are published for weekdays and Saturdays.
Centre Equestre Le Vergier is a riding centre in the Ardèche, in the Monts d'Ardèche near Désaignes. It offers group and individual riding lessons for beginners to advanced riders, on horses or ponies. The centre also provides livery boarding and work, and organises guided rides on horseback. Its approach includes ethological riding, which communicates with the horse through its body language.
Stadnina koni Pasja is a horse stud near Popów, in the Jeziorsko reservoir area of central Poland. The stud offers riding for beginners and advanced riders, including riding outdoors through forest and along the sandy shore. It runs summer and winter riding camps for children, young people and adults. It also offers hipotherapy sessions led by qualified specialists.
LKJ TARANT is a riding club based in Budy Grabskie, near Skierniewice, Poland. The club runs sports riding training and mounted gymnastics in the saddle for children and adults. It also offers hippotherapy, delivered by instructors and therapists with qualifications from the Polish Equestrian Federation and the Polish Hippotherapy Society. The club states that it has trained many horses and riders over more than 25 years.
Stajnia ROKA is a horse stable in Kowale Księże near Turek, Poland, founded in 2008 by a family. It keeps about 35 horses, including sport, carriage, recreational horses and ponies. The stable offers riding lessons for children and adults at different levels, and it specializes in horse breeding. It also offers hippotherapy alongside its riding and group events.
Forez à Cheval is a small family horse farm on the Chalencon plateau at Boisset, in the Haute-Loire. It offers riding lessons, trail rides and riding tourism, and internships. It also provides horse boarding with pasture and care, and gentle horse starting (débourrage), including the option of training a horse for driving. The farm also breeds and sells horses.
Les Ecuries de Bélénos is an equestrian centre in Haute-Loire, on the Velay plateau, run by two partners who hold equestrian instructor qualifications. The centre offers riding lessons from initiation to advanced level, pony and horse rides, and riding courses and exam sessions during school holidays. It also provides horse boarding, including box stabling and work boarding, and the training of young and difficult horses. The site is located on the Chemin de Saint-Jacques, with its own 80-hectare farmland supplying forage and cereals.
Les Écuries de la Tauge is a horse yard on a 110-hectare farm near Montauban. It offers livery in paddocks or boxes, with horses turned out daily and hay available at all times. Individual or small-group lessons are given by an instructor, who also handles horse training and breaking-in. Riders have access to two arenas, a riding ring and a lunging ring, and rides can start from the stables.
Ecurie de la Vizade is a horse livery yard in Sauvagnat near Agnat, Haute-Loire, offering box and paddock livery, pasture livery and retirement livery for horses. It also offers breeding livery for broodmares and foals and work/training livery for horses in work. The site says the yard breeds and sells horses. Facilities include boxes, paddocks, two arenas, a jumping course and a lunging ring.
The Centre Equestre de la Maronne is a riding centre in the Maronne valley near Saint Martin Valmeroux. It offers riding on ponies and horses, from beginner initiation to competition. The centre also runs riding courses with grading exams, boards horses, and offers outings and rides. A holiday cottage is available on site.
