Hoof to Heart - VETS runs equine programs for active military, veterans and first responders. Participants work with horses on the ground, and no prior horse experience is needed. Group programs are offered, along with female-specific veteran and first responder programs. The focus is on building skills, confidence and connections through horse-based coaching. Visits are by appointment only.
Great Falls Equine & Veterinary Services is a veterinary practice focused on horses. It offers sports medicine with digital X-ray and ultrasound for lameness and performance evaluation. Treatments include shockwave, PRP and joint therapies, along with acupuncture and spinal manipulation. The practice also provides on-farm gastroscopy, reproductive services for mares, wellness and emergency care, and pre-purchase examinations.
Burke Equine Therapy is a veterinarian-owned and operated facility in Saratoga Springs, New York. It provides lameness evaluation and treatment, imaging, regenerative medicine and post-surgical care for horses. It also offers pre-training and conditioning for horses returning from layup, surgery or rehabilitation, on a dirt training track, grass gallops and wooded trails. The site describes its services as focused on the wellbeing and performance of equine athletes.
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.
Emerald Isles Eventing Center is a boutique-style facility in Westborough, Massachusetts, offering full-care boarding for horses. Its training program covers horses and riders from any discipline and level, with a focus on eventing. The farm has indoor and outdoor arenas and a 25-acre cross-country course. It also offers leasing, a horsemanship program and horses for sale, but no longer teaches lessons on its own horses.
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.
High Ridge Harmony Farm runs animal-assisted healing and wellness programs centred on its horses. Its flagship Harmony with Horses program consists of 12 weeks of one-hour, ground-based guided sessions. Participants work with the horses through mindful observation and hands-on partnership, with no riding required. The farm also offers a summer teen leadership program and a vocational program for transition-age youth. It welcomes people of all ages, including children, seniors, veterans and families.
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.
Barre Riding and Driving Club is a non-profit club that has been promoting interest in horses since 1938. It runs the Barre Horse Show Series, a series of four shows held at Felton Field in Barre, Massachusetts, with over 50 classes including lead line, walk/trot, jumping, driving and trail classes. The club also organises open and member trail rides, clinics, parades and weekend campouts, and offers scholarships. Membership is open to people who want to take part in its horse events.
The Saddle Shed is a retail store for horse and rider equipment. It carries English and Western tack, apparel, grooming products, supplements and farrier supplies. The shop also offers new and consignment items, used saddles and clothing, blanket cleaning and repair, and tack cleaning and hat steaming.
Heritage Peak Saddles is an online saddle store offering new and used saddles for riders. The range includes English and Western saddles as well as specialist types such as barrel racing, endurance and training saddles. Saddle pads and accessories are also sold through the shop. The business aims to connect riders with well-crafted saddles at fair prices.
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.
Gallop to Success is a program that uses horses to support at-risk youth and children facing social and emotional challenges. It runs a week-long horsemanship day camp and a Saturday Horse Club for year-round programming. Its work includes EAGALA equine assisted learning sessions, which were also offered to local elementary school staff and students. The program is based on a farm in Southwestern Vermont.
Stage Road Farm offers Equine Assisted Psychotherapy, where clients work with horses on the ground. No riding is involved and no horse experience is needed. Sessions are by appointment. The farm's lead practitioner, Susan Manning, is an EAGALA certified Equine Specialist and owns the farm.
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.
One Trick Pony Rides offers guided horseback adventures across private trails in Upstate New York. Rides range from a signature 90-minute trail ride to family outings, private sunset rides and half-day trips. The experience is designed for first-time riders, families, couples and more experienced guests. Guests meet the horses before the ride and follow a guide through wooded trails, hills and open ranch views.
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.
