Talmage Smedley was born and raised in Layton, Utah. He has always loved owning, training, and breeding animals. At 18 he began riding horses and after serving an LDS mission, that became his career choice.
He began training reining horses professionally in 1995 and currently runs his training and breeding business in Ogden, Utah. He has had great success in both his training and breeding programs. He has won multiple local and national titles, including Utah Futurity Champion, Utah Derby Champion, and the 2009 National Open Derby Level 1 Champion. Horses from his breeding and training programs have gone on under other riders to win many titles as well.
