JC Cutting Horses

Our full time help is leaving shortly to pursue a different career path. We are looking for a dedicated horse lover to join our team. Duties include morning feeding, turn out and some stalls. Lessons are available. Salary commensurate with experience. Message me for details.

For all you cutters out there...lighten up.

#chcmotivatemonday

I will never be able to describe the power of time spent cleaning stalls. During this time I have made some of the biggest decisions in my life. I have silentl...y thought my way, step by step, through some of the biggest disasters of my life. I have ugly cried my way through heartbreak all while cleaning stalls. I’ve thrown bags of sawdust in range as I thought about all of the shitty things going on in my life. Each stall has oddly given me a place of comfort as I stood, fork in hand, feeling empty during the times I’ve felt so alone. It has taught me to appreciate the serenity of the quiet. Realizing the ones in my life I can count on and the numerous fake people who are only present when convenient for themselves. I’ve enjoyed a free gym membership, as I’ve sculpted my back and shoulders into he man, just sifting away. I’ve stumbled my way, dry heaving, with sunglasses ....cleaning stalls through last night’s hangover, because god forbid my best friend be forced to stand in a dirty stall. Today I spend my morning, cleaning stalls and processing my life. I’m mentally making life changing decisions, as I write this post, knowing that whatever I decide, it will be the right one, as it was made in a stall. I understand that there are those who think us horse people should get real jobs. And that all we do is spend our days playing around. I’m genuinely sorry that you have never been exposed to a lifestyle that teaches you discipline, how to love unconditionally, put something other then yourself first, bust your ass for the things you want and need, kept humble by a 1200 lb animal, the real meaning of hard work, early mornings and late nights spent caring for something other than YOU. Those are things a real job will never give you. Some of you haven’t cleaned stalls .....and it shows.

Now this is broke!

To my fellow trainers. My hat is off to you..... Here's a glimpse of our life in reality. We have a passion, usually starts almost at birth, we go after it. We ...work for free to learn. Muck stalls, buck hay, build fence, drag arenas, wash horses, sweep floors and a thousand other tasks just in hopes of learning something about these amazing animals. Endless and often thankless hours. To get lucky enough to get on some nasty suckers no one wants to ride. But you get on...maybe scared, maybe unsure, but you'd crawl in the middle of a red eyed lion just to prove to yourself that you can. You ride anything they run at you.... Then one day, usually years later, you strike out on your own. You become a trainer..But you still crawl on the bad ones and make the best you can of them. You still get jerked around trying to lead a knothead to the barn, still get rope burns, get kicked and pawed and bit. Have runaways, broncs, flippers and ones that smash your legs into the fence. Often times risk your life... Even easy day are abusive to your body. You are stiff and sore so often you don't even notice anymore. You ride, drive, learn, teach and soul search endless hours... What little money you actually make you buy or replace gear, struggle to get a truck and trailer, find a place to train out of...yeah it's a real cakewalk. Through endless hours of learning, failing, trying harder, wanting to quit, digging deeper, you learn to train well and maybe show well... You start winning, winning starts to become habit...surely you have made it...nope. You still ain't above mucking stalls or dragging the arena...you basically do what you did in the beginning..you just get paid a little more and have a different title... After all of this, day and night, you still work crazy odd hours and hunger to get better..If we took a pencil to what we earned per hour we'd go hang ourselves... Then...the clients. Some good, some bad, some amazing and some absolutely awful.. They go from singing your praises to saying what a poor job you did, how they expected so much more but fail to see what you had to go through to get their less than stellar, pissy, less than world class bred horse to the point that they can ride it, maybe even show it. Then they decide to ride with another trainer down the road and suddenly they forget how overjoyed they were with all you had accomplished on their baby. I know you know this...horses aren't the tough part of this business, people are. Hang in there fellow fools for horse. You are not alone... Remember why you started my friends...you started because of the love....hang in there, don't lose your passion, your heart and soul over people...keep doing it for the horse. See more