December 23, 2009
RFD-TV STAR AND HORSE TRAINER JULIE GOODNIGHT IS THE LATEST SPONSOR OF THE INTERNATIONAL EQUESTRIAN FESTIVAL
CONTACT: Kimberly E. Brown
859.223.2010
kimberly@horsecapitalproductions.com
Lexington, KY – Best known for her award-winning reality television show Horse Master, airing weekly on RFD-TV, trainer and clinician Julie Goodnight has signed on as an official sponsor of the International Equestrian Festival (IEF) and will present clinics daily in downtown Lexington, KY, September 25-October 10, 2010. Horse Capital Productions, a Lexington-based company, is producing the event. Goodnight has prepared a full curriculum of horse training topics to cover and demonstrate daily as part of the Kentucky Horse Council’s First Time Owner seminar series to be held at IEF. She will also be on hand daily to answer questions and help horse lovers learn about her full line of tack, training DVDs, and wares in her extensive shopping area, “Goodnight Village,” which includes Kestar Boots and Circle Y Saddles, among others.
Horse Master with Julie Goodnight is a popular program airing on RFD-TV in which Goodnight helps horse owners to “makeover” their relationship with their horses and solve specific behavior and riding-related tasks. During her 25-year career in the horse industry, she has developed expertise in multiple disciplines, including dressage, racing, jumping, reining, driving and colt-starting. She grew up riding on Florida’s hunter-jumper circuit then exercised race horses on the track while working through college in Arizona then stayed out West to lead wilderness rides and finally began combining all to form her unique brand of natural horsemanship and classic riding training.
In addition to her television work, Goodnight teaches numerous clinics ( focusing on “Classic Skills for a Natural Ride”) across the country, as well as writing columns that appear in many regional publications throughout North America. Goodnight’s training techniques are featured regularly in Horse & Rider (where she’s a member of Team Horse & Rider) and The Trail Rider.
Goodnight also serves as the International Spokesperson for the Certified Horse Association. In 2008, she was named Equine Affaire’s Exceptional Equestrian Educator—one of only three to ever receive the award.
"We are excited to be a part of the expansion of the Julie Goodnight brand at the International Equestrian Festival. She is an icon in equestrian education and she has a massive fan following. With her educational techniques and the Goodnight Village on board, we know we have all the right tools to meet the goals of the ‘up and coming’ rider in a way they've never had access to before,” stated Anne Buchanan, CEO of Horse Capital Productions.
Goodnight will present daily during the 16-day festival.
“I’m really looking forward to working together with the IEF and the Kentucky Horse Council to offer educational programs to horse owners and to the diverse crowd of horse enthusiasts during the World Games,” Goodnight says. “It’s a unique opportunity and I am thrilled to be a part if it!
Horse Capital Productions also supports the Kentucky Horse Council, a nonprofit organization dedicated, through education, to the protection, growth and development of the equine industry in Kentucky.
To learn more about Julie Goodnight, to watch free clips from her TV show and to read articles in her free Training Library, please visit http://www.juliegoodnight.com <http://www.juliegoodnight.com/> . You’ll also find her on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/julie.goodnight
Horse Capital Productions, LLC promotes entertainment, education, and tourism for the horse industry with large-scale events production and web-based education and entertainment solutions. The 2010 International Equestrian Festival, a Horse Capital Productions event, is a 16-day festival designed to fill downtown Lexington with fun, shopping, participatory events, exhibits and high-end retailers from around the world, providing a high-energy, multifaceted entertainment experience for the hundreds of thousands of people attracted by the World Equestrian Games. Horse Capital Productions is based in Lexington, the heart of Kentucky bluegrass horse country, and operates under the philosophy of doing what is right for the horse, the community and the international sport of horses.
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