Poplar Hill Show Stables is a boutique hunter/jumper facility offering personalized training programs for horses and riders. The stable provides showing opportunities from local shows up to the A circuit. It runs monthly clinics for riders of all levels. The team also offers wellness and care plans for horses, including nutrition and conditioning routines.
South Mountain Equine is an equine veterinary practice serving Middletown, Maryland and surrounding areas. The practice provides ambulatory and in-house services for preventative health care, emergencies, dentistry and medical care for horses. Services listed include lameness work, diagnostic imaging, reproduction, surgery and sports medicine. Care is provided at the client's farm or at the practice's clinic.
Potomac Riverside Stables is a privately owned horse boarding stable and training facility in Poolesville, Maryland, on 400 acres near the C&O Canal. Boarders can choose stall or field board, with daily turnout in small groups, hay grown on the farm, and regularly scheduled vet and farrier visits. Trainers and instructors visit the stable to work with boarders and offer lessons and horse training in a variety of disciplines. Trail riding along the C&O Canal and equine leasing with school horses are also available.
Piedmont Horse Retirement is a small, family-run horse retirement farm in Delaplane, Virginia. It offers field board on hundreds of acres of pasture with run-in sheds, springs or streams, and automatic waterers. Horses are assigned to pastures based on their individual needs, and optional blanket and fly mask service and grain service are available. The farm is located about one hour west of Washington, DC.
Qualia Dressage is a dressage training business led by Siobhan Byrne, a USDF medalist. It develops horses and riders from green to Grand Prix through systematic training. Training is available at Persaud Legacy Farm in Reddick, Florida, and offsite training is also offered. Customizable packages combine training rides and lessons, and horses can be placed for long-term development and competition.
Ardent Equestrian is a small, family-oriented equestrian facility in Western Loudoun County, Virginia. It offers horseback riding lessons for riders from age 3 and up, using ponies and horses suited to all levels. The facility has an indoor arena for year-round lessons and an outdoor arena. The site also lists horse transportation services.
Montaire Icelandic Horses is an Icelandic horse farm in Northern Virginia, serving Icelandic horse enthusiasts since 2015. The farm offers boarding and training, with covered riding arena, round pen and FEIF sanctioned tracks. It provides riding lessons for children and adults, along with clinics and shows. It also offers breeding and stallion services.
Riding Far offers transformative experiences for horses and riders, aimed at strengthening relationships between them. Its work combines psychology, equine ethology, biomechanics and classical and contemporary horsemanship. Services include rider support and sport psychology, horse training and young horse development, and equestrian mental skills coaching. The business also provides guidance and education for instructors.
Locks Edge is a dressage facility in Poolesville, Maryland, on 57 acres. It offers horse boarding with stalls, turnout and daily horse care, along with dressage training and lessons. The facility has an indoor and an outdoor arena and holds clinics with dressage riders. Owner and staff live on site.
Broad Shadow Farms is a private boarding facility for horses. Boarding includes daily turnout weather permitting, stall and water bucket cleaning, blanketing, and scheduling of farrier and vet visits. The farm offers riding lessons from an ICP certified instructor, tailored to each student and horse. It also provides training and full training or sale board, with an eventing focus covering dressage, showjumping and cross country.
Seneca Polo Club is a polo club in Poolesville, Maryland, about 30 miles outside Washington D.C. It offers polo lessons, intro clinics, weekend games and chukkers for beginners through professional players. Horses can be kept at the club on full care or field board, with turnout, feeding and daily horse checks. Boarders have access to an outdoor polo arena, a 1.2 mile exercise track and trails on the property.
Brown Hall Show Stables and Riding Academy runs a Riding Academy where riders start with first lessons. The academy develops horsemanship and riding skills while riders take part in local competitions and schooling shows. Riders can progress into a Competition Academy and then a High Performance Program. The site also lists professional training staff among its services.
Cedar Creek Farm is a full service boarding and horse show facility in Sterling, Virginia, started in 1997. It specializes in hunters, equitation and jumpers. The farm offers training from beginner to national, AA-rated competitions. Facilities include a 28-stall barn, a large indoor ring, an outdoor ring, and 14 turnout paddocks with 4 hospital paddocks for rehabilitation.
Partnership Equestrian is a dressage and eventing barn in Montgomery County, Maryland. It offers horse training and rider lessons based on the German Training Scale, with a focus on correct training for both horse and rider. The barn also provides boarding, horse sales and horse leasing. The facility has an Olympic-size dressage court and a full course of jumps.
Madison Fields is a farm in Montgomery County, Maryland that uses horses in therapeutic and educational programs. Its Equine-Assisted Services include therapeutic horseback riding taught by a certified riding instructor, with both mounted and unmounted options. Equine Assisted Learning sessions build life skills through equine-assisted activities. Programs serve people with autism, cerebral palsy, learning disabilities and traumatic brain injury.
Hunt View Riding Academy is a horse riding and boarding stable in Germantown, Maryland. It offers field and stall boarding for horses, along with riding lessons and summer camps. Trail rides on nearby trails and a horse leasing program are also available. The academy runs team building and birthday party events that use horses and riding.
Clairvaux is a hunter jumper show stable in Northern Virginia. It offers horse training programs for owners and riders, tailored to each horse and rider pair. It also provides riding lessons on the stable's own horses for riders who do not own one. The stable serves both juniors and adults at all experience levels.
Beaux Rêves Equestrian is a horse training facility in Loudoun County, Virginia, with an emphasis on the principles of dressage. It offers long and short term training programs personalized to each horse and rider, as well as 45 minute private lessons. The facility has an indoor arena with mirrors and viewing area, an outdoor arena with lights, a round pen, conditioning fields and a nine stall barn. The trainers also help clients market horses for sale and host schooling shows and clinics.
Surefire Eventing is an eventing lesson and training business run by Jan Byyny at Surefire Farm in Purcellville, Virginia. It offers stadium, cross-country and dressage lessons, as well as clinics. Its training program works with breeders and owners to start, retrain or prepare horses for competition, with training board varying by the owner's goals. The farm has cross-country courses from Beginner Novice to Intermediate.
Wyndham Oaks is an equestrian farm in Boyds, Maryland, offering horse boarding with stall board and field board options. The farm has a training program in which trainers teach private horse owners, covering dressage, eventing, and conditioning. Clinics and community riding events are also held on the farm. A wellness center for horses is planned, where veterinarians can work with the horses on site.
Doc's Haven Farm is a privately-owned facility in Montgomery County, Maryland, offering correct, basic dressage training and instruction for horses of all breeds and backgrounds. Flexible training packages are customized to each horse and rider, and short-term training stays can be arranged. The farm also accepts medical board, rehabs and layups on a case-by-case basis. It breeds quality sport horses and occasionally has horses for sale.
Santa Julia School of Riding offers one-on-one horsemanship lessons for riders at all levels, from beginners to advanced riders. Its training draws on classical methods and covers disciplines including hunter jumper, dressage, eventing, and flatwork. The school runs a structured training programme of graded levels, starting with lungeing and in-hand work and progressing to advanced movements such as flying changes and piaffe. The school is located in Poolesville, Maryland.
Willow Mist Riding School is a horse farm in Poolesville, Maryland, founded by Dr. Bill and Andrea Bush. It offers private, semi-private and group horseback riding lessons for adults and children. The farm provides ponies and horses for riders aged 2 and up. It also offers trail rides on nearby trails and summer camps for children.
KMH Sport Horses LLC is a hunter/jumper boarding and training facility. It offers full board, training packages, leasing and lessons for all levels. The barn provides stalls, tack rooms and a competitive show schedule from local to rated shows. Horse care and rider training are handled by the owner with a team of professionals.
