riding stable in japan

we went for a walk in a big park (hittori?) in suita where they had this riding stable. of course i wanted to take a look because i am always curious about how horses are kept in different places. it was so interesting that everyone was wearing breeches and tall boots! even the people just watching the horse being lunged. they had a lot of lungeing rings set up, and i also didn't see any turnout space. makes me wonder if there is a corrolation between the two. unfortunately we didn't walk right into the stables because there were all kinds of signs in red kanji on a gate leading to the stable and i couldn't help but guess it meant no intruders. too bad coz it would have been interesting to see. especially since we could hear that they were playing classical music over speakers in the stable...