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Enchanted Hollow Stables is a horseback riding school with a main focus on general western riding. The stable offers riding lessons and horse camps, including 2026 summer camps. The program uses over 20 lesson horses, so riders of different styles and levels can be matched with a suitable horse. The business is family owned and operated.
Rhythms of Grace is a volunteer-driven nonprofit that uses horses to serve children and adults with disabilities and special needs. Its services include horsemanship lessons with customized lesson plans, equine-assisted psychotherapy and learning offered by licensed therapists, and occupational therapy that incorporates horse movement. The programs take place at River Heights Ranch near Dallas Center, Iowa, which has outdoor and indoor arenas. The organization keeps a herd of horses for its programs.
True Heart Equine Enrichment offers riding lessons for beginners, intermediate riders and people returning to riding after a bad experience. It also runs horsemanship classes, horse training and trail rides. The business describes its main goal as teaching and empowering others through work with its horses. It also offers pony visits to schools and nursing homes, and pony parties.
Outdoor Equestrian offers hands-on barn experiences for people who want to learn about horses. Sessions include horse care, horse skills such as leading and grooming, and learning to ride. The business runs on a working farm and works with its own Quarter Horses. Sessions are kept small and are scheduled around the horses' welfare, with rest days built into the week.
Coach Kristi Smith is a horsemanship coach based in Iowa with more than two decades of experience. She helps riders build calm, confident, responsive partnerships with their horses. Her approach, Autotelic Horsemanship, values the process of working with horses as well as the outcome. Her offering includes clinics, coaching programs and video coaching. She also teaches internationally.
Inspiring Stables is a stable in Latimer, Iowa that currently offers boarding for horses and riding lessons. The stable was founded in 2019 and is run with a focus on its horses. The founders hope to offer therapeutic riding in the future to disabled and special needs youth, adults, and veterans. The stable is in the process of becoming PATH Intl. Certified for that purpose.
NorthWind Riding Academy is a nonprofit equestrian program located just outside Omaha. It offers English and Western riding lessons for riders of all skill levels, from beginners to advanced. The academy also runs curriculum-based homeschool courses that combine bookwork, ground skills and riding. It provides horse boarding and a limited number of training spots for pleasure and competition mounts.
Blush Acres is a family owned and operated horse boarding, training and education facility in Worthington, Iowa. It offers stall and pasture boarding for horses. Riding lessons are available one-on-one or in small groups, and riders can use the farm's own horses and ponies or their own. Training covers work on the ground and under saddle, using natural horsemanship. The facility also runs clinics, club activities and kids summer camps.
Hawk Stables is a family-friendly horse boarding facility. It offers stall only, partial care and full care boarding options, along with discounts for boarding multiple horses. The stable also runs a curriculum-based riding lesson program for riders of all ages. Horse experiences, including relaxing rides and hands-on horse care instruction, are offered to children and adults.
River Ridge Stables offers boarding, training and riding instruction in Southwestern Wisconsin. The stable provides lessons for all riding disciplines, with a focus on eventing and dressage, and also works with western horses and problem horses. Horses are offered for sale to recreational and competitive riders. The facility has indoor and outdoor arenas, trails and a small cross country course. Summer horse camps are also offered.
Huntoon Stables is a riding facility in North Aurora, Illinois, providing personalized riding instruction for riders of all levels. It offers youth activities, summer camps and Girl and Boy Scout programs. A show team trains advanced riders who compete at away shows on the stable's own horses. The stable has operated in the Fox River Valley since 1932.
Tempo Farm is a horse training business in the Des Moines, Iowa area that focuses on dressage and sport horses. It offers full and half time training packages, which can be customized to the horse and rider's needs, as well as riding lessons. The training includes starting young horses, working with green horses, and short-term or sales training. The farm is run by FEI rider and trainer Maggie Mosman.
Fields & Fences is an equestrian facility in Wadsworth, Illinois, offering boarding, lessons, training and horse sales. The facility hosts horse shows, including NIHJA shows, dressage shows and schooling shows, as well as dressage and hunter/jumper clinics. It also runs a summer horse camp. Several independent trainers operate their lesson programs at the facility, each responsible for the care and training of their customers' horses.
New Traditions Riding Academy is a riding academy in Palos Hills, Illinois, operating for more than sixty years. It teaches American Saddlebred riding in the saddle seat style through lessons for riders of all ages and skill levels. The academy runs an Academy Show Team that competes at outside shows, with horses and equipment provided. It also offers private lessons and a lesson schedule for beginner, intermediate and advanced riders.
Palomino Pines is a Western-style equestrian property in Kewaskum, Wisconsin, with over 20 quarter horses. It offers Western riding lessons for all ages and experience levels in a heated indoor arena, along with trail rides and summer horse camps for children. The ranch also boards, sells, breeds and trains horses. A guest house and seasonal sleigh rides are offered as additional activities.
Maier Farm & Stables is a small family-owned facility near Iowa City offering horse boarding, lessons and leasing. Boarding options include private pens and group lots, with turnout, arenas and trail access on the property. Western riding lessons are offered for riders from age 3 and up, covering horse husbandry, tacking and riding skills. The farm also provides horse-drawn wagon rides and pony parties.
Scott Golladay Stables is a full-service equestrian breeding, training and boarding facility. The stables breed and train Arabian and Half-Arabian show horses that compete in English, Western and Driving divisions. A stallion currently stands at stud. The yard also offers boarding with daily stall cleaning, turnout and feeding, and riding lessons by appointment for riders of all levels.
Dunham Woods Farm is an English hunt seat hunter-jumper barn in Elgin, Illinois, with a focus on equitation. The farm offers private, semi-private and group riding lessons, including lead line lessons for young riders, and seasonal horsemanship camps and clinics. It also assists clients with horse and pony purchases and offers boarding. The farm sits on more than 20 acres of property on the west side of Elgin.
Star Stables is a full-care horse boarding and training facility in Indianapolis, established in 1985. It offers riding lessons in group, semi-private, and private formats, with instruction in both western and hunt seat. The stable also provides horse training and horse leasing programs. Its riders and horses have achieved numerous titles at IBHA and AQHA shows.
Prairie Sport Horses is a Hunter/Jumper stable near Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. It offers stall and pasture board for horses. Lessons are available for novice riders through AA show competitors. The stable also provides horse training, schooling and horses for sale, lease or share board.
Mayhem Stables is an equestrian property just outside Indianapolis, Indiana, offering horse boarding in a 24-stall main barn with paddock and pasture turnout. Boarding includes feed, stall care, grooming, farrier services and routine veterinary care arranged through the owners. The stable offers riding and horsemanship lessons for boarders, lessees and people with their own horses, as well as training for horses. Horses are also offered for sale and lease, and layover overnight boarding is available for horses travelling through.
Slater Creek Ranch offers horse training from yearling boot camps and colt starting through to finished mature horses. It provides riding lessons and clinics for riders of all ages and experience levels, using its own program horses or the client's own. The business also helps clients buy and sell horses through horse sales, consignment and advertising services. Its approach is rooted in ranch horse and cowhorse traditions, and its trainers have competed in disciplines including mounted shooting.
Aries Farm is a family-owned stable in Medina, Minnesota, near the Twin Cities. It offers private and group riding lessons, birthday parties and riding camps. It also provides full-service boarding, leasing, training and clinics, and buying and selling of horses. The facility includes a barn with 27 large stalls, an indoor arena and an outdoor arena.
Cornerstone on the Vermillion is a horse training and boarding facility in Minnesota. It offers stall and paddock boarding with an indoor arena, an outdoor arena and riding trails. Riding lessons are offered for all ages and levels, including western and English disciplines. The facility also runs youth horse camps and horse training programs, and it keeps show horses for hunter-jumper and western performance riding.
