Where the future is brighter

Nestled in a beautiful, well-maintained boarding facility just minutes north of downtown Fort Collins, Colorado, and only 10 minutes from CSU. We offer training, seasonal youth camps, and lessons in multiple disciplines for everyone, from first rides to seasoned riders fine-tuning their skills. Wherever you are on your riding journey, we emphasize a strong focus on connection and horse/rider biomechanics, providing concepts and exercises tailored to each rider's skill level and understanding. Also offering education for your equine partners from start to finish and tune ups. We are devoted to cultivating skilled and confident horses ready to become the best partner they can be. Each horse receives thorough and attentive care, allowing us to establish a safe and supportive environment for their needs so they can thrive. We believe in taking the necessary time to teach each skill, ensuring a solid foundation before moving forward. By emphasizing their well-being and education, we guide them on their journey to realizing their full potential, focusing on responsiveness, softness, and understanding. Working on balance, impulsion, rhythm, and fitness before ever asking for collection to ensure correctness and willingness to happily complete the job at hand.

Join our barn family, where you can develop new skills, forge friendships, relax, challenge yourself, and achieve a sense of accomplishment every day. The facility features a spacious, heated, indoor arena with dressage letters and plenty of poles to play with, an outdoor arena with a complete jump course, and close to trails. Learn on one of our happy, safe, well trained lesson horses or bring yours.

We believe that our connections with horses can impart valuable life skills and foster confident, capable individuals who act with kindness, patience, and fairness. Check out our classes, learn about our instructors, and reach out to discover more, schedule a meet and greet or lesson.

Sunshine Farm LLC
Welcomes You

Trainer

Stefanie Thompson

970-698-2433

Living her passion for horses and teaching, every day.

Stefanie grew up in S. Florida training and showing with top trainers in hunter/jumper and dressage. She became a working student during her teen years for a Grand Prix dressage trainer learning how to correctly start young horses. She also worked part time as a groom and rider for several top Hunter/Jumper barns. Stefanie moved to Fort Collins, Colorado in 2001 and began working as an assistant trainer to a top Morgan trainer in the area. Hungry for knowledge, she shadowed other trainers in the front range to learn as many teaching techniques and disciplines as possible. They traveled the Morgan circuit and took horses and students to Nationals in OKC each year. Eventually taking over as head trainer before returning to a more diverse group of horses and riders in 2008. Currently she is teaching and training hunter, jumper, equitation, western pleasure and equitation, dressage, western dressage and runs seasonal youth camps. Traveling to local schooling and CHJA shows along the front range. Showing is not required and students that do not wish to show are happily welcomed with the same enthusiasm as those that do. Her priority is to keep students and horses safe, happy, and educated while ensuring they continue progress along the way. Stefanie feels blessed to have had the opportunity to help countless students and horses acquire foundational skills, develop new techniques and confidently move forward in their learning journey. She is passionate about her work with students and horses of all ages, temperaments and disciplines, while celebrating and supporting their differences. She provides a wide range of services to students and horses from all backgrounds and levels, with a program tailored to each horse and/or rider for their specific needs, goals, and learning styles.