Event Calendar

Click here for flier:  Emergency Equine First Aid Class 

Barrel Racer, Author, and Positive Role Model Amberley Snyder is coming to Von Holten Ranch

Friday, August 30:  Dinner and Motivational Speech, $50, nonrefundable, due when reservation is made

•  Reservations are mandatory due to seating.  Limited space.
• Pulled pork/BBQ beef, baked beans, potato salad, coleslaw, rolls, drinks, and dessert included
• Venue is wheelchair accessible, has wheelchair accessible restrooms, and is heated and air conditioned.
• Amberley will also have copies of her book available for purchase and will autograph any copies of her book.

Saturday, August 31:  Horsemanship & Barrel Racing Clinic, $225, $150 nonrefundable deposit, due in order to hold place in clinic

•  The Saturday clinic is FULL.
• Auditors/spectators welcome, $25 per person
• Amberley will be riding in the clinic, but is not bringing her horse, Power.
• The clinic will focus on groundwork, body control, softening exercises, and of course barrel racing drills!

Sunday, September 1: Horsemanship & Barrel Racing Clinic, $225, $150 nonrefundable deposit, due in order to hold place in clinic

• Auditors/spectators welcome, $25 per person
• Amberley will be riding in the clinic, but is not bringing her horse, Power.
• The clinic will focus on groundwork, body control, softening exercises, and of course barrel racing drills!

Von Holten Ranch has 40 RV sites, 94 covered stalls, 4 cabins, a heated and air conditioned guest shower house, 125×200 covered arena, 25 miles of trails, and by the time of the dinner and clinic, a Mountain Trail Course.

If you are needing a hotel room and do not require a handicapped accessible room, Hotel Bothwell in Sedalia, MO will give you 20% off if you mention that you are here for a Von Holten Ranch event.

Call 660-668-0880 for reservations or questions.

Click here for a flier for the Amberley Snyder Dinner and Motivational Speech

Click here for a flier for the Sunday Amberley Snyder Clinic

Save the date!

The 2019 All Around Cowgirl had an major overhaul for this year!  The All Round Cowgirl has partnered with the All Cowgirl Team Challenge.  Now, you can enter as a team , the ranch hand, the farm hand, 50+ farm hand, or the All Around Cowgirl!  You can enter the All Around and also be on a team!  In fact you can be on multiple teams!  Here’s the deal, you can only compete in each class once but your score can be used for the All Around and for your team.  You will have to assign yourself to the classes before the competition starts in order to ensure fairness.

Buckles will be awarded for the Champion and Reserve Champion in the following categories:

All Around Cowgirl

Top Working Ranch Hand

Top Farm Hand

Top Farm Hand 50+

Prizes/Awards will be presented to the 10 ten in every division, which equals 100 prizes and awards!

The teams will win trophies for the top two teams unless there is a large number of entries, then more places will win trophies.  Do you realize that if you compete on a team with 5 people, that you would each only pay $20 to compete!

Top Farm Hand

Shooting:  You will be ranked by your best two shots.  Every competitor will first receive a practice shot that will not count in scoring.  You will shoot a Daisy pellet rifle, using crosshairs, standing from 10 meters (33 feet) away.

Farm Girl Relay:  You will move clothes off the line, get firewood, water the horses, and two other mystery events that may include driving a piece of farm equipment, milking a cow, or snapping green beans.

Hay Stacking:  You will have to figure out how many bales you have to move.  You will move less than 20 bales.

Bridle Assembly:This may sound easy, but I can assure you that you will need to practice! We will use a snaffle bit bridle with a brow band, curb strap, and split reins. Time penalties for each part not correctly put on; best time wins.

Washers: This is the original game of washers. One person from each team will play in a bracket to determine your placing.

Top Working Ranch Hand

Brooks and Dunn:  Ride down, rope a roping dummy, get off, hammer, and paint a piece of wood.  Remount (mounting block available).  Best time wins.

Hay Bale Barrel Racing:  All correctly ran patterns will be scored first.  Best time wins.

Obstacles:  10 obstacles, no points for speed, will have a maximum of 7 minutes to complete obstacles.  Actual farm obstacles; nothing that looks like a tornado went through a yard sale.

Goat Bloomer Race:  Run down, dismount, put a pair of underwear on a goat, remount (mounting block available), run back.  Best time wins.  No nanny slamming.

Ranch Pleasure: For this event the pattern will be released the day of the event. Practice riding on a loose rein, lead changes, and different gaits. This will be subjectively judged.

The All Around Cowgirl and the Team Competitions will both do all 100 events!

Click here:  All Around Cowgirl 2019 Flier ,  All Around Cowgirl Flier

Click here:  Entry form for 2019 All Around Cowgirl

All inclusive weekend!

$350 per person, $175 nonrefundable deposit to hold your spot. Rain or Shine!

Here’s what you get!
Friday dinner, Saturday breakfast, lunch, and dinner out, Sunday breakfast and lunch PROVIDED
All camping and stalls included (bring shavings or can buy at VHR)
Custom t-shirt
Craft
Wine
Movie
Endless dessert/snacks
Drinks (soda, water, coffee, and hot chocolate)
Limo or Charter Bus ride
Photos and disc with individual photos!
Daily trail riding with a small group!!

We ask what everyone loved the most about the Chix in the Sticks event in June and the answer was NOT HAVING TO COOK, ALL THE TRAIL RIDING, AND THE ENTIRE EVENT!!!

Save the date!

2019 Country Tough Trail Versatility National Championship

Save the date!  More information coming!

Click here for a printable membership application

Leroy Van Dyke and The Auctioneers will have a grassroots concert in Leroy’s childhood stomping grounds.  Less than 10 miles away is where Leroy was born, grew up, and went to school.  Von Holten Ranch is located on a family owned farm that has been in the same family since 1906.  The Von Holten’s and the Van Dyke’s have been neighbors for over 100 years!

Tickets are $30 and can be purchased either at Von Holten Ranch in advance or online at www.vonholtenranch.com under the Country Tough Mercantile tab.

If it is not raining, the concert will be in the outdoor venue at Von Holten Ranch.  If it is raining, the concert will be under the covered arena.

BRING A CHAIR!

Leroy and The Auctioneers will begin at 6pm, preshow entertainment starts at 5:30pm with local musician Matthew Cozart from Odessa, MO.

Von Holten Ranch has ample parking, a heated and air conditioned guest shower house with restrooms, and is also bringing in handicapped accessible portable toilets.

Concessions will also be available!

Von Holten Ranch also has shirts, cups, koozies, caps, silicone bracelets, leatherwork, children’s books written by Brandy Von Holten, and MO made ice cream for sale.

The concert is on Saturday, October 19, 2019 which is part of the 2nd Annual CT2V National Championship (CT2V=Country Tough Trail Versatility), which is a three day event.  Come early on the 19th and watch the competitors compete in Ranch Horsemanship and a super fun event called Cowboy Roulette.  In Cowboy Roulette, the competitors do not know what they have entered until the event calls for entries to show up and then the event is explained.  The winner takes half of the entry fee!