What it does

You can look. You can also be found.

Every directory runs one way: you go on a list, and you wait for the right person to walk past it. OpenStable runs in both directions — so here is what each side can find, and what each side can start.

You keep a horse

Find a yard that has actual space.

Not a phone number and a hope. A postcode, a radius, and yards whose spaces are dated — filtered down to the ones you could ring today.

What you can find
Search and filters5 radii
A postcode or a town, plus 5, 10, 20, 30 or 50 miles — or any distance at all. Livery type, price, arena hire, and only the yards with a space.
Structured turnout9 fields
Winter and summer hours, group size and composition, and soil type — as fields you can sort on, not a sentence in a description.
The yard listing
Price a month, the spaces free right now, facilities, hacking and the yard's own photographs.
Farriers, physios, grooms
How far they travel, what they charge, and whether they are taking anyone on.
Saved yards
Keep a shortlist across your phone and your laptop, and pick it up where you left it.
How you get found
Enquiries in a thread
Not a message that scrolls away. An enquiry carries a state and a reply you can find again in March.
Reviews you can compare6 categories
Scored across professionalism, facilities, grazing and turnout, hacking, communication and atmosphere.
Your areaopt-in
Switch it on and yard owners nearby can see that you are looking, and invite you. Switch it off whenever you like.
Searching on the web app — the filters, and what a yard card carries: price, the spaces free now, and turnout hours.
The OpenStable app showing six livery yards in a filtered, sortable list, each card carrying price, spaces and structured turnout hours
Six yards, filtered and sorted — price, spaces and winter turnout hours on every card.
How search and filters work
You run a yard

Fill the stable yourself.

An empty stable is a cost, not a listing. Publish the space once and it stays on search — then go and find the owner who would take it.

What you can find
Live availabilityper space
One row per space: livery type, stable type, price, start date, term, and whether it is free, pending or filled.
Your enquiry inbox
Every enquiry carries a state and a thread, so an unanswered one is visible rather than lost.
Reviews
Scored across the same 6 things, by owners who actually kept a horse with you.
Marketing tools
Most enquiries still come from local Facebook groups. Paste your link, or post the image.
How you get found
Find horse owners40 miles
Owners searching within 40 miles of your yard, ranked by fit, then by how recently they looked, then by distance.
10 invitations, free10 free
Every yard owner gets 10, one per owner; Pro is unlimited. An invitation reaches her as an enquiry you can answer.
The Sent record4 states
Pending, seen, responded, expired — and you can invite again once one lapses.
Find horse owners, on the yard dashboard. Distance, what they want, how urgently — and what the yard does not know about them.
The OpenStable app's Find horse owners screen: ten lifetime invitations remaining, owners listed with distance, what livery they want and an urgent-move flag, each with an Invite to enquire button
Find horse owners on the phone — who is searching near your yard, and how urgently they are moving.
How Find horse owners works
You provide a service

Find more work, closer to home.

Word of mouth stops at the edge of the people who already know you. Draw the ground you cover instead — then offer work to the yards and owners inside it.

What you can find
Your listing
Services and prices, coverage radius, specialities, accreditations and the questions you are tired of answering.
Clients and jobs
A record per job — the visits, the quote and what you agreed — instead of a text thread and a memory.
Reviews4 categories
Scored across quality of work, communication, punctuality and value for money.
Payoutson-site
Take card, Apple Pay and Google Pay, and the job shows as paid the moment it clears.
How you get found
Offer work nearbyyour radius
The yards and owners inside the ground you cover, ranked by who is most likely to need you. Tick the ones you want.
10 offers, free10 free
One credit per recipient, and it never resets. Pro keeps 30 a month as a fair-use cap.
They reply in a thread
A conversation with a record, rather than a missed call and a voicemail.
The work-offer audience at the review step: exactly who this send reaches, and what it costs, before it goes.
The OpenStable app's Who to offer work to screen: nine of ten free work offers left, horse owners nearby marked as looking near you and active today, each individually ticked, and a send button showing the cost of the send
The same audience on the phone — ticked by hand, with the cost of the send shown first.
How offering work nearby works
Get startedDownload on the App StoreFree to search, compare and enquire.