Schmutz Family Horse Training

08/15/2025

08/09/2025

Schmutz Family Horse Training LLC is excited to announce the start of our fall clinics!!! We will be teaming up with Cheney Saddle Club for a Working Cow Clinic on September 6th, 2025 at the Cheney arena!! We welcome all levels of riders from children to adults and beginners to advanced. We will be working both on the cutting flag and with live cattle! There is a $100 holding fee to reserve your spot. Please contact Sarah Kickbush Ensley prior to September 3rd to reserve your spot as there are only 20 spots available! We look forward to meeting you on your level in order to improve your working cow horse skills!!!! We will start at 8:00 in the morning, take a 1-hour lunch break, and then continue until 5:00 at night!

08/03/2025

Everybody wants a good horse.
But not everybody wants to become the kind of person that makes a horse good.

In today’s world, people expect fast results.

Instant gratification.
Swipe, click, scroll, done.

People expect success to be delivered like an Amazon Prime Order:
fast, easy, and with a smile.

They want to turn their feral horse into a “finished horse” without ever putting in the hours it takes to truly understand one in the first place.

Here’s the thing…
Mastery isn’t downloadable.
A reciprocal relationship can’t be rushed. It is build over time and it comes with highs and lows.

What took others years of learning, failing, watching, refining, people now want handed to them in a weekend clinic, a 10-minute video, a one time exercise, a one-sentence answer or because they bought a course.

The shortcuts people chase are often detours that lead them right back to where they started, just more frustrated this time.

They want the feel, but not the feedback.
They want the bond, but not the humility.
They want the horse to change, but they don’t want to change themselves.

No one can hand you the timing, the feel, the quiet, calm and consistent leadership it takes.

It can’t be downloaded or bought.

You earn that, you develop it, with every consistent rep and step. With patience. With clarity. Through being a lifetime student of the horse.

By showing up on the days it’s hard, boring, frustrating or humbling.

Put in the work.
Put in the hours.
Because Your horse
deserves that version of You.

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