GOOD HORSES ARE THE KEY TO THE BREEDING, TRAINING AND COMPETING OBJECTIVES AT ROCKIN’ U RUNNING HORSES. WE RAISE HORSES TO COMPETE ON THE TRACK AND IN THE ARENA. WE ALSO START OUR HORSES FOR THE TRACK THE WAY WE WOULD ANY OTHER WORKING HORSE. A GOOD MIND IS IMPORTANT ON THE RACETRACK AND IN A CAREER AFTER RACING.

TREY GREW UP IN A RODEO FAMILY. HIS FATHER, TOMMY HANOVER COMPETED ALONG WITH HIS COUSIN, DOUG HANOVER IN PRCA STEER WRESTLING. TREY FOLLOWED, COMPETING IN COLLEGIATE AND PRCA RODEO.

STEPHANIE GREW UP WITH HORSES AS WELL. AT AN EARLIER AGE COMPETING IN SHOWS AND THEN PURCHASING HER FIRST RACEHORSE AS A HIGH SCHOOL SOPHOMORE. IT WAS THEN THAT HER ATTENTION FOCUSED MAINLY ON RACING WHILE STILL COMPETING IN HUNTER CLASSES AND POLOCROSSE.

TREY AND STEPHANIE MET WHILE IN COLLEGE AT TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY. BOTH COMPETED FOR THE UNIVERSITY, TREY BULL DOGGED FOR THE RODEO TEAM AND STEPHANIE COMPETED IN EQUITATION ON THE FLAT AND OVER FENCES FOR THE EQUESTRIAN TEAM. BOTH EARNED EXTRA MONEY IN COLLEGE STARTING COLTS AND STEPHANIE GALLOPED

HORSES FOR A LOCAL TRAINER.

FOLLOWING GRADUATION, STEPHANIE MOVED TO SAN ANTONIO THEN AUSTIN, WHERE SHE WORKED FOR RETAMA PARK AND THE TEXAS QUARTER HORSE ASSOCIATION’S RACING DEPARTMENT. TREY STAYED IN BRYAN AND

PURSUED A CAREER AS A FARRIER.

DECIDING THAT BRYAN/COLLEGE STATION WAS A GREAT PLACE TO STAKE THEIR ROOTS, THEY MARRIED IN 2000 AND MOVED TO THE RANCH IN EDGE, JUST NORTH OF BRYAN. IT WAS HERE THAT THEY TURNED THEIR ATTENTION STRICTLY TO BREEDING AND RACING.