Cours, enseignement et travail à pied — un centre pour apprendre ou faire progresser un cheval.
Elevage DPM is a horse establishment that offers riding lessons through its riding school. It also provides livery, including pasture board and pasture board with boxes. Lesson packages of 10 classes and individual lessons are available. The site describes its approach as treating the horse as a companion rather than something to be exploited.
Le Clos Du Bost is an equestrian establishment on a 56-hectare property near Lac de Saint-Pardoux. It offers several types of horse boarding with supervision on site. Facilities include a 20 by 60 metre arena, a lunging circle, covered grooming area, boxes and a shower area. The team also provides classical riding instruction and ground work, and riders can explore nearby trails.
Les Ecuries d'S'Poir is an equestrian centre in Gorre, Haute-Vienne, in the Limousin region of France. It offers horse riding and multi-day trail rides on its own horses, in small groups. Lessons are available for children, teenagers and adults, along with training and competition preparation for show jumping and TREC. The centre also provides boarding for horses in spacious paddocks near riding trails, and riding holidays in the area.
Le Petit Logis du Breuil offers riding holidays in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine countryside in Charente, for adults, families and riders from beginner to confirmed level. Riding lessons and courses are led by a state-qualified instructor. Guests can also bring their own horse. Holiday cottages on site are part of the stay package. The centre is an FFE-approved equestrian tourism centre.
La Ferme de Sapharey is an equestrian farm in the Périgord Vert region of Dordogne. It offers horse riding trekking, including weekend initiation rides and day outings through the countryside. It also runs ethological horse riding courses for owners who want to improve how they communicate with their horse. The farm breeds Quarter Horses and Paint Horses and offers guest rooms for visitors.
Les Allards is an equestrian centre and Poney Club in Pessines, founded in 1985. It offers riding lessons for all levels, from initiation to competition, and courses for children from age 4. The centre also provides livery for horses in boxes or on pasture, with access to its indoor and outdoor arenas. It prepares riders and horses for competitions and runs a sport-study section for school pupils.
Equilogic Farm is an equestrian business in Sainte-Radegonde, near La Rochelle, focused on horse behaviour and ethology-based riding. It offers complete riding training on foot and mounted, riding lessons and courses, and training internships. The farm also provides horse boarding with boxes, paddocks and an indoor and outdoor riding area. The owner works with horses in competitions such as CSO, Hunter, Equifeel and Mountain Trail.
Les 3 allures Ty Marc’h is a riding centre and pony club on a 4-hectare site in Charente-Maritime. It offers pony and horse riding lessons for all ages and levels, including show jumping, dressage and cross-country. Holiday courses and rides are available in summer. The centre also takes school groups on request.
The École Élodie Guilloteau offers riding lessons and riding courses for children and adults, including private lessons and riding camps. It also trains and starts young horses and rehabilitates horses' locomotion, and offers half-board for horses. The school runs trail rides and supports riders who compete, and it offers equine coaching and equine-assisted therapy. The business is based at Le Moulin de la Grève in Virson, between La Rochelle and Surgères.
Le Ranch des Lamberts is an equestrian centre in the Médoc forest near Lacanau, France. It offers riding activities including introductory rides, trail rides in nature and longer riding courses. It also provides boarding for horses, with several formulas including short stays for passing horses and longer-term care. The ranch is labelled Cheval Étape.
Timberlein Ranch is a family-owned horse ranch near Stacy, Minnesota, that has operated since 1990. It offers riding lessons for all ages and experience levels, with indoor and outdoor arenas available year-round. The ranch also provides horse training, including colt starting and responsiveness work, and a boarding program with separate pastures and clean shelters.
Les Cavaliers du Fort Boyard runs guided horse and pony rides on Oléron island, France. The rides go through the Saumonards forest and along the beach with a view of Fort Boyard. Rides are offered for beginners from age 8, and a sporty ride is available for confirmed riders from canter 3/4. The guides hold the French state riding instructor diploma (ATE).
Les Ecuries de Sainte Hélène is a horse yard in Sainte-Hélène near Lacanau in the Médoc, Gironde. It offers boarding for sport, leisure and retired horses, in boxes or on paddocks with electric fencing. The estate of 40 hectares in the forest has two floodlit arenas, a walker, a gallop track and several paddocks. The yard is run by Romuald Besnier, a professional rider and state-qualified riding instructor.
Ecuries du Barrois is an equestrian centre in Hussigny-Godbrange, France. It runs a riding school with instructors who hold the BPJEPS qualification. The yard also offers half-board places for riders, which include free riding three days a week. The centre hosts courses and lists the ponies and horses available for lessons and riding.
Les Ecuries de Firia in Saint-Agnant teaches classical dressage, groundwork, liberty work and rope-driving with horses. Individual and group riding lessons are offered several days a week to owners of equines kept on site or elsewhere. The business also runs a show troupe that performs open-air evening dinner shows in summer and can perform at equestrian venues in the region. It additionally offers animal-mediation sessions with a pony for dependent adults.
Les Ecuries du Moulin Moreau is an equestrian centre on the Île de Ré, located at the exit of La Flotte on fifteen hectares of woods and moors. It offers group and private riding lessons for all levels, from discovery to improvement, with teaching horses or the client's own horse. Courses are held Monday to Friday, and the centre offers horseback rides on the beach and in the forest. The yard also provides boarding for horses and is certified as a French riding school by the Fédération Française d'Equitation.
The École d'Équitation de Peillonnex is a family riding centre near Annemasse in Haute-Savoie, active for about 40 years. It offers riding lessons and stages for all ages and levels, including holiday courses for children. The centre also provides varied boarding for horses and training formulas for working horses. Riders can take part in lessons, stages, hacks and competitions under qualified instructors.
Coline Gavard offers horse teaching and schooling work with riders and their own horses. The sessions cover dressage, jumping and groundwork. Her approach focuses on the horse's mind and body and on the rider's connection with the horse. Clients describe her work as non-dogmatic and respectful of the horse.
Léna Challut is an independent riding teacher working in Savoie and Haute-Savoie. She offers private riding lessons and collective riding courses across France. Her approach focuses on horse education and the relationship between rider and horse, based on ethology. She also runs passage de galops and training courses for riders.
The Centre Equestre de la Forêt de Chaux in Dole offers riding lessons for all levels, from beginners up to galop 7, for both children and adults. It also runs pony and horse rides in the forest, next to an animal park. The centre trains riders, holds galop exams and takes in horses on half-board and full board. It also organises horse competitions and events.
Charmot Quarter Horse is a horse stable in Bons en Chablais. It breeds and sells stock horses. It specialises in cattle sorting disciplines such as cutting and ranch sorting and also covers other western disciplines. The stable offers lessons and courses, and its qualified instructors invite visitors to get in touch.
Écuries Saint Amour is a riding centre near Geneva. It offers a full range of riding lessons, including dressage and show jumping courses for all levels. It provides pasture boarding for working horses and retirement boarding for older horses. The stable also runs a training programme to prepare horses for competition and offers horses for sale.
Poney Club du Léman is a riding centre in Sciez, on the shore of Lake Geneva, near Thonon-les-Bains. It offers riding lessons for all levels, from beginners to Galop 7, and preparation for the federal Galop exams. Holiday riding courses and competition in show jumping are also available, depending on level. The club also offers livery and half-livery arrangements for horses.
Elevage de Kheïlan is an equestrian centre in Bloye, near Rumilly in Haute-Savoie, between Annecy and Aix-les-Bains. It offers riding lessons, a pony club, group lessons, horse and pony outings, and birthday and course days. The yard provides horse boarding (pension) with paddocks, shelter, a convalescence box and access to an arena, jumping course, dressage facilities and a gallop track. The site also lists a breeding section with stallions, mares and foals.
