Juli is the owner/manager of Golden Gait Stable located at 23803 Grange Road in Marengo and offers boarding, leasing, starting horses, remedial training, and horsemanship lessons in riding, training and care. She considers her facility a place where horse-lovers and horses can bond and grow together in skill and knowledge.

Juli’s background includes training in Jumping, Dressage, Saddle-seat, Western, Trail and Gaited Horses. She’s taught hundreds of riding lessons, trained hundreds of horses, offered Girl Scout Badgework, and worked on behalf of Pony Clubs of America. She has shown, fox-hunted and ridden competitive trail rides.
She’s been conducting her popular “Spook-Proof Your Horse” and “Gaited Horse Problem Solving” clinics for years for various groups, including HAHS, Amateur Owners and Breeders Assoc. as well as at various Equine Festivals throughout Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri and Illinois.

Now Juli commits most of her time to educating future trainers, future and novice horse-owners, and uneducated horses. She also likes to spend time trail riding with her clients, and promoting Gaited Horses and Gaited Horsemanship.

Juli’s training philosophies are based on communication skills and passive leadership. Her emphasis is on safety and positive growth. Juli offers a unique program which is geared to teach people how to train their own young horses. She works together with them and their horse, guiding them through her holistic, no-stress, step-by-step training methods.

She also teaches accredited equine training classes for Kishwaukee Community College. The classes are: “Equine Ground Training Basics, Starting Under Saddle, Stable Management, and Equine Business Basics”, and are held at her farm. The curriculum includes videos, demonstrations, discussions, and hands-on work with horses. The college awards “Stable Management” certificates to those who complete the program successfully. For students wanting more personal attention and hands-on work, Juli offers small group intensive classes on equine training and care (limited to 4 students.)