Horses have always been a family affair.  We both grew up on the backs of horses, but in different aspects of the horse industry. Matt grew up in a family of gaited horse training, showing, trail riding and shoeing.   He is the son of the late Darrell and Betty Boggs.  At the age of 6 months Matt was on his first trail ride in Eminence, MO.  As Matt grew up he was either at a horse show or trail ride every weekend.  At the age of two he and his brother made their first show depute at Ava on their stick horses.  Matt’s older siblings grew up showing and training Saddlebreds in southern Illinois with their parents Darrell and Betty at Boggs Stables, but once the family moved to southern Missouri they became involved with the Missouri Foxtrotter.  During Matt’s teenage years he assisted his father in the family farrier business and broke colts for many clients.  In Matt’s late teenage years he decided he wanted to rope, so he saved his money and bought his first quarter horse in which he trained and learned to rope off of.  After many countless hours of practice and dedication Matt won many championships and accomplished what many thought he couldn’t.  He continued to shoe, break and train gaited horses throughout this whole time.  Through working with many different type of horses and styles of competition, Matt has a very large knowledge of how to ask horses to do the best that they can accomplish in the area of performance they were designed for.