Goodnight Signature: Elevate Your Equitation

Build your riding skills through obstacles, patterns, and mountain riding.

Become a more balanced, effective rider at this four-night, adults-only educational retreat in the Colorado Rockies. Practical horsemanship instruction, mountain trail riding, and new activities come together alongside fellow equestrians who share your passion for learning.

The Theme: Working Equitation

Classical horsemanship, purposeful patterns, and obstacles help develop balance, precision, and clear communication between horse and rider. Discover how these exercises improve your riding and put familiar skills to work in new ways.

What You’ll Experience

• Choose your own path – Sign up for the sessions that interest you.
• Groundwork – Build a partnership with your ranch-provided horse.
• Mounted lessons – Practice Working Equitation patterns and obstacles.
• Guided mountain trail rides – Ride in the ranch’s spectacular setting.
• Gathering cattle – Put your skills to work on the ranch (activity available with the ranch team).
• Presentations and evening discussions – Deepen your understanding of horses and connect the day’s experiences.
• Friendly Working Equitation competition (Sunday) – Put your learning into practice.

Learn from Julie Goodnight

The retreat opens with a special horse-behavior demonstration by Julie Goodnight, exploring how communication, relationship building, and leadership on the ground create the foundation for a more connected ride.

Who Should Attend

This retreat welcomes adult riders of all experience levels and riding backgrounds who want to:

• Become a more balanced, effective rider
• Improve communication and partnership with their horse
• Explore new riding disciplines and ranch activities
• Learn alongside a community of passionate equestrians

You do not need to own a horse, have attended a clinic, or aspire to compete—just come with a desire to improve, openness to coaching, and enthusiasm for learning.

Between riding sessions, enjoy C Lazy U Ranch’s exceptional accommodations, dining, hospitality, and mountain setting.

Come ready to ride, ask questions, explore, and connect—and leave with useful skills, fresh insights, and memorable experiences from four days devoted to your passion for horses.

• DATES: September 16 – 20, 2027
• RATES (per person per night):
  • Adult Double Occupancy: from $762*
  • Adult Single Occupancy: from $886*
• MINIMUM STAY: 4 nights

This event always sells out, book early!

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Julie Goodnight is the Founder & Content Director of Goodnight Horsemanship. She is best known as host of Horse Master, which aired weekly on RFD-TV for eleven years. Julie’s clear and humorous teaching style and her enlightening insights on horse behavior, inspire and educate audiences everywhere. A certified Master Clinician, Julie travels the globe teaching riders and giving horse training demonstrations. She’s a published author with a syndicated column, a monthly blog and podcast, a keynote speaker, and is an active social media influencer. Julie is CEO of 2Horse Productions, an equine, nature and adventure lifestyle production company. Goodnight is the recipient of the Exceptional Equine Educator Award and CHA’s Partner in Safety Award, and resides on her horse farm in the mountains of Colorado.

Tanya “T” Cody is Lead Clinician and Program Director for Goodnight Horsemanship’s in-person programs. She has worked alongside Julie for more than 25 years as a colleague, assistant clinician, producer, and on-camera talent, and Julie chose her to carry the Goodnight Horsemanship teaching forward. T has a long history with both Goodnight Horsemanship and C Lazy U. She brings decades of broad-based horsemanship experience and a clear, practical, upbeat teaching style to riders of all levels and disciplines. Her instruction emphasizes safety, confidence, clarity, kindness, and practical horsemanship that helps riders better understand their horses.