Event Calendar

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Join Von Holten Ranch for their Bluegrass Festival. Open mic in the event barn before the honorary COUNTRY MUSIC HALL OF FALL headliner Eric Lewis and the New Kentucky Colonels bring on the bluegrass. Opening performance by music powerhouse Matthew Cozart.

This is also the ribbon cutting for our Mountain Trail Course!!
Vendors, Food trucks, Other artists
$20 per person gate fee
Call 660-668-0880

Click here for the Bluegrass Flier

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

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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

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