Rocking V Ranch

07/27/2024

Rocking V Ranch is looking for a part time stable hand to help on weekends. Feeding, cleaning, general horse care. Must have exp. with horses. Message us if interested.

07/22/2024

It may be difficult to think about your horse’s lightweight sheets and winter blankets in July. It’s actually a great time to make sure you are prepared. Nina Stevenson and Gnarled Needle can help make sure yours are clean and in good repair. Rocking V Ranch is happy to be a drop off place even for local non-boarding horses. Please just message Nina to make arrangements.🐴

07/13/2024

One of our favorite horse moments is seeing nice families enjoy the opportunity to own and make memories with special horses. Alex Frontier Zip has been an accomplished show horse but more importantly helped raise a few girls and their families through “first horse ownership.” Thank you Madison Warner and family for years of loving Alex/being a great owner and the new opportunity to raise another girl who has also loved him for a long time. We are excited that Alex is now owned by Chloe Vance! Congratulations 👏🐴❤️!

07/05/2024

Always feels good to get the hay in for the year. Wrapped up about a week ago before all the heavy rain. This year was a good year for hay. Thanks Boyd Davis for doing a great job as always.

06/29/2024

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Things your riding instructor wants you to know:
1. This sport is hard. You don't get to bypass the hard…..every good rider has gone through it. You make progress, then you don't, and then you make progress again. Your riding instructor can coach you through it, but they cannot make it easy.

2. You're going to ride horses you don't want to ride. If you're teachable, you will learn from every horse you ride. Each horse in the barn can teach you if you let them. IF YOU LET THEM. Which leads me to…

3. You MUST be teachable to succeed in this sport. You must be teachable to succeed at anything, but that is another conversation. Being teachable often means going back to basics time and time and time again. If you find basics boring, then your not looking at them as an opportunity to learn. Which brings me to…..

4. This sport is a COMMITMENT. Read that, then read it again. Every sport is a commitment, but in this sport your teammate weighs 1200 lbs and speaks a different language. Good riders don't get good by riding every once in awhile….they improve because they make riding a priority and give themsevles opportunity to practice.

5. EVERY RIDE IS AN OPPORTUNITY. Even the walk ones. Even the hard ones. Every. Single. Ride. Remember when you just wished someone would lead you around on a horse? Find the happiness in just being able to RIDE. If you make every ride about what your AREN'T doing, you take the fun out of the experience for yourself, your horse, and your instructor. Just enjoy the process. Which brings me to...

6. Riding should be fun. It is work. and work isn't always fun.....but if you (or your rider) are consistently choosing other activities or find yourself not looking forward to lessons, it's time to take a break. The horses already know you don't want to be here, and you set yourself up for failure if you are already dreading the lesson before you get here.

7. You'll learn more about horses from the ground than you ever will while riding. That's why ground lessons are important, too. If you're skipping ground lessons (or the part of your lesson that takes place on the ground), you're missing out on the most important parts of the lesson. You spend far more time on the ground with horses than you do in the saddle.

8. Ask questions and communicate. If you're wondering why your coach is having you ride a particular horse or do an exercise, ask them. Then listen to their answer and refer to #3 above.

9. We are human beings. We make decisions (some of them life and death ones) every day. We balance learning for students with workloads for horses and carry the bulk of this business on our shoulders. A little courtesy goes a long way.

Of all the sports your child will try through their school years, riding is one of 3 that they may continue regularly as adults (golf and skiing are the others). People who coach riding spend the better part of their free time and much of their disposable income trying to improve their own riding and caring for the horses who help teach your child. They love this sport and teaching others…..but they all have their limits. Not all good riders are good coaches, but all good coaches will tell you that the process to get good is not an easy one.

📝 Kimberley Reynolds

📸 Max & Maxwell: Equestrian Photography

06/04/2024

We’ve been waiting for this fancy girl! “Sophia” AQHA pending name: Bring Your Best Girl by Good Better Best AQHA Stallion and out of Lukin So Fabulous (Havana). Sophia was born 12:20 AM June 2. Welcome beautiful.😍 ❤️🐴

05/09/2024

We are excited to offer photo sessions again for Rocking V Ranch horse boarders and current facility members. June 15! First come advance signup - details below. We do have a secondary date once these fill.
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04/26/2024

Higher education is expensive and scholarships aimed at the horse enthusiast are hard to find. KBHA offers 2 $1000 scholarships to qualifying youth in pursuit of post high school technical school, university or college.

04/17/2024

The Ranch’s youngest: “Louis” born April 10. A big expressive c**t w/pretty chrome out of NCSU Zippin Comet (CoCo) by Good Better Best. ❤️🐴❤️🐴

04/06/2024

Rocking V Horse Boarders. There has been a lot of fire truck activity…twice today. Where there is smoke there is fire. 🔥 Please be assured this burn project on the East side of the property was not ours to begin with, but became ours to control and prevent from spreading in the high winds. Our neighbors began this project yesterday and unfortunately it was not monitored and did spread onto our property overnight, continuing with dry brush spot fires today. We do believe it is under control and certainly don’t want anyone to worry. 🐴❤️ Special thanks to the Auburn and Shawnee County Firefighters.

04/01/2024

PART TIME POSITION
We have a part time stable hand position available at Rocking V Ranch. 25-30 hours per week; need to be available mornings and some afternoons. Feeding horses, cleaning stalls, turning horses out for exercise, and general upkeep/cleaning/maintenance of Rocking V Ranch. Spanish speaking is helpful. Must have experience with horses and be dependable. Located in SW Topeka, Kansas. Please message the ranch through messenger for more details if interested and give your qualifications for this position.

Topeka's finest equine center.

03/23/2024

One of the things we love about Rocking V Ranch is the diverse way our horse boarding clients enjoy their horses. Different disciplines, interests and goals. We think Karen Elliott Hughes, Morgan Moss and Anna Moore participating on a movie set with their horses Fancy and Boone is really cool!😎 🐴 We will need to tune in to “John Brown The Advocate” next summer or Fall. Filming going on south of Sabetha, KS.
https://www.jcfilms.org/johnbrown

03/11/2024

Rocking V horse owners. Required vaccinations/coggins April 6, 9:00. Owners need to be present. Sign-up in main barn. Thank you! 🐴

01/31/2024

As the temperature is finally warming up, the snow is finally melting and along with that we have lots of muddy horses and people wanting to bath their horses. Please remember that you are to clean out the wash racks immediately after use (not when you can get to it) and not leave mud everywhere. This is inside and at the outside one as well. The last several days we have had a number of people forget this common courtesy. If you’re not able to clean them properly, do not use them. If see others, please remind them. Thank you to all those that do help keep the ranch clean.

01/30/2024

We are a little late posting these but we had a fun time last Thursday evening January 25, with Rocking V “horsey people!” About sixteen of our barn friends joined us and we missed those that couldn’t make it. Special thanks to Karen Elliott Hughes for providing the great games and prizes. This is a must for next year’s party. Enjoyed all the young children taking part. 🐴😊❤️

01/23/2024

Reminder-we look forward to seeing you!

01/16/2024

We are doing something new and wish to kick off each new year at Rocking V Ranch with an evening get together. Horse boarders, lesson students, facility members and good friends of the barn-join us Thursday evening January 25. Sorry for late notice of the FB invite. This is classier than the dry erase board invite in the main barn. 🤷🏼‍♀️🐴🤩

01/14/2024

It is very cold out. We recommend every one stay home. All the horses are doing ok. Would like to praise all of our part time help especially those that worked this weekend to make sure horses were taken care of. Alison, Anna, Morgan and Brea all came in and worked through bitter cold. Some were not originally scheduled but came in to help.

01/09/2024

We have some very cold weather coming in later this week. Please get your horses blankets on them. If they are outside, make sure they have a moisture resistant one.

12/24/2023

Rocking V Ranch horse owners, Santa is early! Stalled horses have a surprise on each stall. Outside horse owners, please stop by soon in the main barn. There are treat bags for your horses. Wishing you all a peaceful and Merry Christmas.🎄🐴

12/19/2023

Enjoy the season! 🎄🐴❤️

12/02/2023

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10/29/2023

Rocking V stall boarders, please bring your heated buckets w/8-10’ outdoor rated cord this week.

09/29/2023

Again a reminder that the Auburn Vet will be here tomorrow, Saturday September 30th at 8:30 am for fall shots. If you have signed up, make sure you are here and have your horse ready. If your coggins test is over a year old; this needs to be taken care of as well, there are a number of horses that are behind on this so please get that done.
This is also a good time to have their teeth and eyes looked at for any issues. You can make a future appointment if they need addressed.
If you use another vet, please arrange to have them out in the next couple weeks if you haven’t already and let us know. A couple have done this already so good job. We want everyone to be healthy and safe.

09/24/2023

Beautiful day for the Auburn Parade. Several Rocking V Ranch horses and their owners participated. 🐴😊❤️

09/22/2023

Horse owners at Rocking V required Fall shots September 30, 8:30

08/22/2023

Thanks to our employees working through each brutally hot day. 🐴 Jerry/Ingrid are checking water each night. Jerry has been rinsing outside horses. This stretch is stifling. 🥵🔥

08/08/2023

Ranch life is totally 24/7. Livestock welfare can’t wait in the traditional work inbox. Huge shout out to Quality Home Solutions, our two-full time employees of over 20 years, and Jerry Vandervort. At 9:00 pm Jerry and our faithful Tim Rittenhouse of many years …Quality Home Solutions, loaded up equipment in the dark-successfull completion repair of our primary broken main water line. We’ve limped and worked around since Friday, August 4. Naturally things happen on a weekend. Tim and Jerry have been working under the utility lights to excavate and repair. Meanwhile, the big tractor 🚜 is in the shop with John Deere maintenance, naturally taking longer than expected. So thankful for patience, dedication and resilience to working around the challenges. 🐴❤️

12/17/2021

Happy holidays to Rocking V Ranch boarders and friends. It has been a trying time for everyone over the last number of months. We want to wish everyone good health and good tidings for the upcoming holidays and New Year. Please think of our employees over the holidays who are busy taking great care of the horses and facilities here at the ranch. Tomas and Jose have been with us for 19 years now. I don’t know if any ranch that can say that (maybe Yellowstone), our part time help include, Nina, Alison, Trent, Martha, Shayne, and just joining us is Andrea.

11/13/2021

Rocking V stall boarders: if you have a heated water bucket please bring the bucket and 6-8” (only) outdoor compliant extension cord for installation by full time staff (Monday-Friday). Just set the bucket by your stall. We’d like to install these proactively before a severe cold stretch. Thank you!🐴🐴🐴