Heather Hill Riding Center is a small, boutique riding program for novice and returning riders in the Bay Area. Riders join a structured training program with regular riding, horsemanship and barn time within a small group. The center teaches English and Western riding as well as carriage driving. It keeps Welsh ponies and Cobs and offers layups and senior horse care.
Webb Ranch is a family-owned property that has been run by the Webb family since 1922. It offers horse boarding with several stabling options, including barns, wooden paddocks, and pasture. The ranch maintains a range of riding arenas, including jump, covered, and dressage areas, and offers trail riding on its property. Horseback riding lessons and camps are also part of the programme, alongside seasonal farm activities.
Circle Oak Sports Medicine & Rehabilitation is a veterinary practice that treats both canine and equine patients. For horses, it offers sports medicine, lameness evaluations, pre-purchase exams and rehabilitation. Diagnostic services include digital radiographs, musculoskeletal ultrasound, MRI and endoscopy. Therapies for horses include acupuncture, chiropractic care, regenerative treatments and arthroscopic surgery.
Morning Star Vaulters is a vaulting club based at Morning Star Farm in Novato, California. Vaulting is gymnastics and dance performed on a moving horse, and the club trains members in strength, flexibility, endurance and team work. Weekly classes are held, and young children are introduced to horses through vaulting. The club also gives demonstrations at equestrian events and offers vaulting birthday parties for ages 10 and under.
Fernhaven Equestrian offers personalised riding lessons for beginner through advanced riders, both private and group. The lesson program focuses on correct fundamentals, confidence, and clear communication between horse and rider. The business also runs a training program for young, green, and challenging horses. Riders can develop foundations in dressage, hunter/jumper, and eventing, with an emphasis on safety and horsemanship.
Fox Hollow Equestrian Center offers horseback riding lessons in the hunter-jumper and dressage disciplines, including a riding academy for children and adults. It runs a training program where riders lease or buy their own horse to join its show team. The yard also provides horse boarding with stalls, turnout and daily care, and offers rehab care for injured horses in cooperation with veterinarians.
Victoria Dye Equestrian offers individual and group riding lessons at Westwind Community Barn. The business also runs educational riding camps during school breaks, with a focus on responsible care of horses. Horse boarding is available in private stalls, shared or individual paddocks, or pasture. Riders are assigned to their own horse for the week during camps.
Leap of Faith Equestrian is a riding academy serving the Greater East Bay. It offers lessons for riders of all experience levels, starting with an assessment lesson, and lessons are held Monday through Saturday. The program focuses on the hunter/jumper discipline and on horsemanship, including horse care and grooming. The business also offers training for horses and riders who want to compete at horse shows.
White Horse Dressage is a full service barn in the San Francisco Bay Area. It offers instruction and training for horse and rider, from basic ground handling and riding to higher level classical dressage and in-hand work. The program is open to riders of all levels of experience. The barn is based at Ciara West Equestrian facility in Woodside.
Woodside Junior Riders is a summer riding program that started in 1947 in Woodside. The program is ability based, with participants rated in the first week and placed in a riding level suited to their skill. Children learn grooming, saddling, feeding, tack cleaning and other elements of horsemanship. The program runs from mid-June to mid-August each summer and relies partly on volunteers and donations.
La Jolla Equestrian Academy is an equine facility offering boarding for horses with a choice of stall types, including covered stalls with paddocks. Boarding packages include feeding, shavings, and daily care by an on-site manager and ranch crew. Horses have access to several arenas, covered round pens, and large turnout areas. The academy also hosts trainers who offer individual training in two English riding disciplines, along with clinics by visiting clinicians.
Over the Moon Riding School offers horseback riding lessons for both children and adults, starting from age 6. Lessons are offered year round and private and group sessions are available. Each lesson includes riding time along with horsemanship, covering grooming, tacking and groundwork. The school provides its own lesson horses, so riders do not need a horse or equipment.
The Yard Equine Center is dedicated to horse rehabilitation, rest and retirement for sport horses. It also offers reproductive services for sport horses. The site lists transportation among its services and mentions therapies and conditioning. It serves the Greater California area.
Canyon Veterinary Medical Center is an equine medical practice. It specializes in equine medicine, surgery, lameness, and reproduction. Services include preventative healthcare, travel health certificates, passports, and Coggins tests. The practice offers 24-hour ambulatory services for colic, wound repair, and emergency lameness. While most patients are horses, it also cares for other barnyard animals such as llamas, alpacas, goats, sheep, and pigs.
Giant Steps is a therapeutic equestrian center that has used horses to support people with disabilities since 1998. It offers adaptive riding lessons, unmounted horsemanship activities that build confidence and life skills, and customized half- to full-day experiences for community partners. Its equine-assisted programs are delivered by PATH Intl. accredited instructors. The center serves people of many ages and challenges, including members of the military.
Leyden Horsemanship is a horsemanship school based at Ocean View Stables on the coastal bluffs of Daly City, near San Francisco. It offers guided beach and trail rides, arena pony rides, and horsemanship lessons starting from age 3. Lessons follow a Western, vaquero-tradition Level 1 curriculum that begins with groundwork before riding. The barn also offers horse boarding and horse training.
Raydiance Eventing is run by Toora O'Mahony in Sonoma County, California. It offers riding lessons and full training programs in dressage, show jumping and cross country riding. The business works particularly with young horses, including starting under saddle and retraining off-track thoroughbreds. The team also competes and schools cross country regularly at venues throughout California.
Kalember Equine is a horse training business run by Melissa Kalember, a USEF R judge. Training is offered for riders and horses across disciplines, including horsemanship, flatwork, hunters, equitation, and jumpers. The business also runs clinics, such as an equitation riding clinic and an equine bodywork clinic. Equine sports massage is offered as part of the holistic approach to training.
Paradigm Sporthorse Training is a full-service dressage training stable run by FEI rider, trainer and competitor Rebecca Cushman. It offers full and partial training packages, lessons and clinics for riders of all levels, along with horse sales and pre-purchase consultations. Training is tailored to each horse's character and each rider's individual needs. The stable also offers rehabilitation from sports injury for horses.
Hidden Gem Farms is an equestrian farm on twenty-four acres in Southwest Petaluma, California. The farm offers horse boarding with a six-stall wood barn, a mare motel, open pastures with shelters, round pens, a large outdoor arena and warm wash racks. Training is guided by a small team, with a western horsemanship program covering trail riding, pleasure, reining and working equitation. Riders of all levels, from kids and adults to new students and longtime clients, are supported.
Elite Equine Care & Management offers horse care, training and barn services in Novato, Marin County, and supports horse owners, barns and equine programs in Marin and Sonoma Counties. Services include daily care, grooming, and training for horse and rider, along with barn management. The business also provides post-surgical care, wound management and rehabilitation support that carries out the recommendations of a veterinarian at the client's barn. The team is led by Mirja, who has worked with horses for nearly four decades.
Underwood Farms offers Hunter/Jumper training and lessons for riders at Eagle Point Equestrian. The business also provides a young horse development program focused on building rideable athletes. Underwood Farms sells and leases show-ring horses. Its facility includes outdoor arenas, a covered riding ring, and stables.
Rubicon Farms is a hunter/jumper horse training and coaching barn in Petaluma, California. It offers training and coaching for riders from novice to advanced level, as well as training of green horses. The farm provides daily horse care and customized routines for each horse. Its facilities include a large outdoor arena, an indoor arena, a private barn with stalls and paddocks, and turn-out areas. The team also attends shows monthly.
Woodbridge Farm is a private, owner-operated dressage facility in Petaluma, California. It provides boarding for horses, with large pastures for turnout and social time. The farm has outdoor and indoor arenas and large stalls. It hosts schooling shows, rated shows and clinics, and trainers are available for lessons.
