4 Pat'Balad is a pony riding business in the Suisse Normande, based at La Forêt-Auvray. It offers 45-minute pony rides for families, mainly for young children up to 12 years old. It also runs riding courses and mini-stages for children during school holidays. The business offers pony boarding, including work-and-return-to-work packages and preparation for farrier work.
Les Sabots en’Joué is a horse boarding yard (pension) in the Joué district near Belin-Béliet. Horses can be kept on full board with hay at will, or on haylage, with daily rations, supplements given as prescribed, and daily inspection. The yard also offers private lessons and horse work, coaching for competition, and group lessons. Its stated aim is to combine horse welfare with riding.
Chez Seraphin is an equestrian centre in Normandy, between Clécy and Pont d’Ouilly, run by its owner with a donkey and a pony. It offers donkey and pony sessions for young children from 15 months, including sensory initiation and riding on a donkey or pony. Individual lessons and outdoor rides are also offered, along with group sessions and vaulting afternoons. The site describes riding as a natural, outdoor activity suited to each rider's pace.
The Centre Equestre de la Baronnerie is a riding centre offering riding lessons for beginners from age 8 and for more advanced riders. It also runs trail rides and pony rides for children. The centre provides boarding for horses and ponies, including box and paddock options. It supports riders who take part in competitions such as endurance, TREC and dressage.
Sellerie Dollé is a saddlery run by an artisan saddler in Brittany. The business makes and repairs saddles, with a focus on trail riding (randonnée). Services include saddle fitting and arch modification for English saddles using the Treeclix system. Girth and billet replacement is also offered.
Le Murmure du Louvray is an ethological equestrian training centre in Normandy, run by Emilie Lechaptois. It offers private and group riding lessons and thematic courses such as groundwork and long-rein work. It also provides loading rehabilitation for horses and week-long immersive programmes. Training courses are offered to both professionals and amateurs, including BFEE qualification courses.
Ecuries de Bièvres is a private owners' livery yard on a 4-hectare estate near Paris, surrounded by forest. It takes sport and leisure horses, with supervision, horse care around the clock and support from professionals. Facilities include indoor and outdoor arenas, a dressage arena, paddocks and a solarium. The yard offers flat and fence instruction, competition preparation and direct access to forest trails.
The Centre équestre du Bois de Sœuvres is a riding centre in Vern-sur-Seiche, set at the edge of a forest in a family atmosphere. It welcomes riders from 4 to 80 years old, beginners and advanced alike. The team offers instruction and varied activities throughout the year, including holiday courses and competitions. Visitors can get to know the horse stock (cavalerie) on site.
Ecuries des 4 routes is a riding centre with a pony club for young riders. The centre also offers livery and boarding for horses. Its team trains and develops young horses and supports riders in club and amateur competition. The business is based at Les Quatre Routes near Iffendic.
Les Ecuries d'Anjou is an equestrian centre that now focuses on boarding horses and ponies. Horses are kept in small groups in pasture, and hay is produced on site. Some horses are kept on full or part livery. The property covers 40 hectares near Angers, and an independent instructor and coach is available on request.
Killian Fallais is a professional farrier working in Ille-et-Vilaine. The business offers hoof trimming (parage), shoeing (ferrure) and clipping for horses and other equids. Clients include private horse owners, stud farms, riding centres, stables and sheep breeders. The site describes training in equine care (CAP Palefrenier Soigneur and CAP Maréchal-ferrant).
Les Écuries des Perrières is an equestrian centre near Saint-Malo in Brittany, with a riding school and a pony club for children. The yard offers riding in disciplines such as show jumping, dressage, cross-country, vaulting and TREC. It also provides boarding for horses belonging to owners, with boxes, individual paddocks and herd pastures. The centre is labelled by the French Equestrian Federation (FFE).
Prestige Maréchalerie is a farrier business in Fegreac, Loire-Atlantique. It offers shoeing of all kinds, including simple, orthopedic and forged shoes, as well as classic and physiological trimming and barefoot management. The farrier works with horses, ponies, donkeys and draft horses, for private owners, stables and professionals. The business travels across western France and Normandy and offers hoof follow-up using ekico technology and Hippotypose.
Les Chevaux de Toul Ar C'hoat is a riding centre near Saint Yvi in Finistère. It offers horse and pony rides of various lengths, including carriage rides with a horse-drawn carriage. Private and group riding lessons are available across several disciplines, including dressage and show jumping, along with first-ride sessions for children and adults. The yard also offers livery, with boxes and pasture turnout, and breeds horses and ponies.
Ecurie Guillaume Poupard - GP JUMP is an equestrian yard in La Mare Besnard, Saint Cosme en Vairais, on a 6-hectare site. It offers horse boarding in boxes, on paddocks and in pasture, including boarding combined with lessons or work. The yard also provides coaching and training for dressage and show jumping, from first galops to competition, and runs stages for riders. The owner is a professional with a DEJEPS qualification who works with both horses and riders.
Les écuries du Gaillardin is an equestrian yard near Nantes offering horse boarding in stalls and paddocks, with several formulas to suit each horse. It also runs a breeding activity that covers the stages from choosing genetics to the early development and education of young horses. The team provides coaching for riders in competition, including national and SHF competition work. The yard has been run by international breeders, riders and coaches for more than 20 years.
Elevage du Gévaudan is a horse breeding farm in Loire-Atlantique, France, on a 50-hectare property. The farm breeds Anglo-Arab horses and New Forest ponies. Its breeding aims at show jumping and eventing. The farm sells horses and ponies, including young animals and horses that have competed. Its website also lists stallions and the breeding season.
Gouletterie Equitation is an owner-run horse yard in Thorée-les-Pins, Sarthe. It offers horse boarding, including pasture board, retirement board and care board for injured horses, on 15 hectares of grazing. Riding lessons with the owner's horses or the client's own horse are also offered, along with pony rides for children. A holiday cottage is available to rent alongside the yard.
Ecurie Marblésienne is a sport horse breeding operation in Brittany, now in its third generation of breeders. It runs an insemination centre offering artificial insemination and embryo transfer for mares. The yard also offers pensions for broodmares, foals and young horses, including foaling, weaning and handling. Services include early education of foals and breaking-in from two years old, and the business sells horses from its breeding.
Les Chemins de Soi offers psychotherapy and equine-assisted therapy in Ganges, Hérault. Sessions take place either in a consulting room or in equine mediation sessions with horses. The work includes individual psychotherapy, hypnosis, brief therapies and constellations with horses. Group equine therapy sessions for institutions are also offered.
Florine Grard is a dental technician for horses and an animal osteopath. She offers equine dentistry, including full dental table maintenance and work on incisors and canines. She also provides osteopathy sessions for horses as well as cattle, goats, dogs and cats. Her site states that she works on site, with travel costs calculated from the location of the consultation.
Equid'harmonie offers education and behavioural support for horses using positive reinforcement. Sessions are designed around the rider's goals and are carried out in the presence of the rider so they can continue the work. A behavioural assessment is available for horses showing problematic behaviour. In-person sessions are offered within about 60 km of Domagné, with online support for clients further away.
Équi Détente is a riding centre near Laillé with a pony club for children and adults. It offers riding lessons, courses, and horse rides and hacks in the surrounding countryside. The centre also provides boarding (pensions) for horses with paddocks in a herd setting near a forest. Lessons are led by instructors who adapt each session to the rider's level.
Ecurie de Baud is an equestrian centre offering riding lessons for children and adults, on both ponies and horses. The offer runs from leisure riding to competition. Lessons are available throughout the year. Members can also take a club horse on a half-board arrangement, riding and caring for it, with veterinary care and farrier work handled by the club. The centre also advertises horse boarding.
