About Us

    What we are all about....  

 Nick and I are vet students with a passion for reined cow horse. We love every aspect of the sport from the breeding to the showing. At our current location in Howell, MI, we keep a small herd of horses from which we show, buy, breed, and sell. Our future goals include becoming vets, creating a full performance horse facility out west, participating more so in the large NRCHA shows as well as the NSHA, and expanding our breeding program. 

Emilie Lind EMLcowhorses

"I have been around horses my entire 18 years of life. I began riding Arabians at a young age showing them in everything from western pleasure, hunt seat, halter, to saddleseat. When I was nine, I got my first Quarter Horse and trained him to barrel race. My world shifted from open show and equestrian team level competition to money earning circuits when I bought a young grey Doc Bar/Gunsmoke bred QH started in reining. I began showing with the Michigan Reining Horse Association in 2006, and around this time I also began buying and selling horses, after finishing and showing them. During my reining years, I picked up a little bit of knowledge from just about every Reining trainer in Michigan. If there was one trainer that helped me the most, it would be Sharon Crawford. Many times, I learned a great deal just from watching trainers in the warm-up pens and asking them questions. In 2008, I heard of a sport called Reined Cow from a friend, and decided to try it out. From there, I also learned to cut, after spending time riding with Jake Ream, a cutting trainer friend in Utah. During my stay in Utah, I also got a chance to ride with Aaron Ralston. In 2009, after ending a successful NRCHA show year, I made my first trip to the NRCHA World Show, and found that I still had a lot to learn about the sport. In 2010, I began riding with a Reined Cow trainer, Josh Veal, and spent most of the summer riding with him while traveling to shows and staying at Yellow Creek Ranch in Tennessee. It was here that I learned valuable knowledge of starting colts and preparing for aged events in NRCHA. In 2011, I made my second trip to the NRCHA World show, and learned that I was much closer to my goals. The best way to stay on top of the competition is to go outside your elements. I would rather travel out west and get beat by some of the best in the business and learn what I need to do to get better, than to stick to the shows in my backyard and win. Knowledge is not acquired by winning, but instead by losing. My plan for the future is to ride with, and learn from as many people as possible to become the best horseman that I can. I believe that you will always run into someone better than you, but you should never stop trying to surpass them."

Nick Scott

"Horses have been a part of my life ever since I can remember. I can't picture a day without working around or being on the back of a horse. For me, the best part of showing and training performance horses, is the training itself. To me, the true competition is going out to the arena everyday and seeing what you and your horses can accomplish. There is no greater feeling in the world than watching your horses progress and learn. I love to show, and I love feeling you get right before you get into the arena and once you're in the arena. But the true rush for me is in the training. I love to problem solve and I strive for excellence in every horse that I work with. My main goal is to make every horse that I work with as broke as possible and as good as that horse can possibly be. In order to do so, I will continue to better myself as a horseman. I feel that you can never learn everything that there is to know, because the true teachers are the horses that you ride. Every horse that you get on will teach you something different and will keep you wanting more. I will also continue to better my knowledge by learning from and watching as many horsemen and horsewomen as I can. I form my training philosophy around little bits of knowledge from every trainer that I come across. My goal for the future is to never give up and to constantly better myself as a horseman and every horse that I work with."

"Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly"