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SERVICES:

Riding lessons:

We teach lessons to beginners through advanced riders. FEI level riding instructors and patient beginner teachers! See the "lessons" tab for more information.

Instructor development: Struggling with your teaching? Want to really learn a methodical way to work with students from beginner to advanced rider? Check out our Instructor/trainer programs! We will come to your barn and help you become a better teacher! Instead of stealing your thunder, like regular clinicians, Julie will work privately with you to improve your skills as a teacher, helping you with every aspect of your educational process including: dealing with difficult horses/people, improving your own skills (your lessons will be private), developing trust with horses and riders, confidence building, riding through, riding forward and other essential aspects of your riding program. In this hands-on program, you will be the clinician and Julie will be your private coach, whispering in your ear as you teach and helping you really SEE what is going on in horse and rider and where best to find the short and long term solutions.

Clinics: At our barn or yours. Clinics always focus on riding forward and through. Learn how to listen so your horse can whisper and how to whisper so your horse can listen! Clinician, Julie Penshorn, spent years as a Western trainer and learned from the best cowboy trainers. During the past 40 years she has integrated past learning with her love of dressage and eventing, becoming a teacher who has earned a great deal of respect for the horses she trains and the students she produces.

DVD analysis and long-distance teaching always available.

Training: We specialize in reconditioning and retraining the badly trained dressage and eventing/jumping horse. Most problems arise from riding front to back instead of back to front. Bring your horse for a free analysis and see what you could be missing. Most trainers don't ride and think from their own sense of feel and the seat of their pants. Instead, they ride from book learning and lessons alone without enough time to just feel and process their learning on their own. Julie learns from her horses. Yes, of course, much formal education as well, but she is a true horse whisperer. She listens when they whisper, so they can listen when she whispers. Experience it!

 

This Sunborn group competed in Mason City at the dressage competition in 2006 and won the team competition, and two reserve champion regional medals. From the left it's Julie, Jessica Johnson, Layne Sandercott, Jessica Hanson, Sam Michaelson

 

 

But we don't just cater to the serious riders! We love beginners too. Here is one of our school horses with Alicia St. Germain. Don't they have fun!?

 


Sandy Olson (left) and teacher, Mary Gmitter Johnson (right) pose with buddies Cooper and Navello

 

 

Julie Penshorn

Instructor and trainer Julie Penshorn has been teaching and training horses for almost 40 years, specializing in gentle yet challenging work with horses and riders of all disciplines. Go to the video tab to learn more about Julie and watch some training rides.

  • Julie is a USDF Certified instructor and trainer. She's also been trained and recommended to test for the USEA (eventing) Instructor Certification Program.
  • She has judged, trained, taught lessons and studied with some of the country's most respected professionals.  Julie's Resume
  • Julie has trained hundreds of horses across the country. She specializes in developing respectful and happy horses.

 

The Stable, on a very wet spring day. Note the nice pastures. They are for your horse!

 

 

A wet spring photo at Sunborn Stables. The field in front usually has a tiny pond in it! In this photo the cross country jumps in the field are under water. Also, the water jump complex was not built yet. You can't see the pastures that the geldings use that are to the left of the photographed area.

 

At Sunborn Stables

  • Your horse is fed a select diet of concentrate which includes all the vitamins and minerals needed and is extremely low in starch. Horses have access to full time hay and/or grass. Our diet reflects the most current research on equine digestion and provides plenty of roughage, fiber and oils.
  • Your horse will enjoy a large pasture or paddock, most often shared with 3 to 6 others of the same gender.
  • You will appreciate the watchful eyes of the barn's owners who check on the horses at each feeding and have extensive experience.
  • Intestinal worms and pesky flies are kept at a minimum with an effective pasture rotation system that also preserves the high quality of the grass.
  • The indoor arena has a comfortable, heated area to tack up and a heated lounge with observation window.
  • The footing is maintained carefully!
  • There are trails around the perimeter of the 40 acres and lanes through it. We also can use the 90 acres across the street.
  • There is a round corral for training, lunging, and ground driving.
  • The fencing is board and white Safe-ty-fence electric tape.
  • We can accommodate stallions and your horse breeding program.
  • Our in-house trainer can help you solve many of your training issues.
  • Trailering is available to parks, shows, and other events.

 

Julie on Royal Blue finishing a dressage test in Mason City, 2007.

 

Reina del Sol at halt at 2009 Regional finals

 


 

 

 Layne Sandercott and Navello during a Young Rider's test 2008 (bummer about the hat flying off)!


Please contact us today for more information or a private tour!

 

 

 

 

 

 

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