About Us Darren Miller and Rhoda Rein own and operate Darren Miller Stables, a 40-acre horse training and breeding facility just east of Denver. Darren Miller Darren grew up in Dodge City, Kansas pitching baseball and leading the football team as their quarterback.   His parents were teachers and his dad also coached baseball.  He credits his uncle, a race horse trainer, for his early horse experiences.  He feels that his sports background has direct applications to being a successful competitor, coach and judge in the reining and cowhorse industry. Darren has trained reining and working cowhorses for over 20 years, showing in futurity events and coaching non pro riders.  He is a six time RMQHA Cowhorse Champion and has served on the Board of Directors and as President for both the Rocky Mountain Reining Horse Association and the Colorado Reined Cowhorse Association. Darren and Shiny Black Shiner were co-champions at the 2007 CRCA Open Derby event. They won the 2008 Pre Denver Circuit Junior Reining Championship, earning 38 AQHA points. He is newly elected 2008 president of the Colorado Reined Cowhorse Association. In 2006, Darren placed third in the NRCHA World Show Open Two Rein finals riding Pep In My Step. He won the preliminaries of the Open Hackamore class riding Dez She Wiggle. At the Reno NRCHA Snaffle Bit Futurity show, Darren tied to win the high score in the reined work division of the futurity riding Shiny Black Shiner. He placed 4th in the Open Hackamore finals riding Dez She Wiggle. He has been a top 25 Money Earner in the NRCHA and enjoys giving clinics to reining and cowhorse enthusiasts who want to improve their skills. In 2005 Darren was the Sagebrush Slide NRHA Intermediate Open Derby Champion riding Dig N Dust Em Out owned by John & Gayle Pniak. Darren was also a 2005 AQHA World Show Junior Cowhorse finalist riding Melinda Horn's Heza Nuther Digger. In the previous year, the pair also won the South Dakota Open Derby, the CRCA Open Hackamore and NRCHA North Central Region Open Hackamore year-end titles and were reserve champions in the Sandhills RCHA Open Derby.  Darren also won the Sandhills Slide stallion stakes futurity riding a mare that he raised, Dez She Wiggle. Rhoda Rein Rhoda grew up in Wichita, Kansas, showing horses in all around events, dressage and jumping. She graduated from Kansas State University with a degree in agricultural journalism. After graduation, she worked at PRCA in the Media Department before starting an automotive paint touch-up business in 1990. She still operates "ColorTech by Rhoda" on a part-time basis. She works as a freelance journalist, covering regional reining and cowhorse events for the Quarter Horse News. She was successful in the NRCHA showing Pep In My Step in 2004 and 2005, winning the North Central Regional and CRCA titles in Non Pro Hackamore and Non Pro Bridle divisions. The pair made the NRCHA Top 25 non pro list in 2005. Rhoda has also enjoyed success showing Uncommonly Savvy to non pro reining titles. She won the 2007 Colorado State Fair Non Pro futurity riding Sheza Peppies Poppy. The horse brand About the Brands Darren Miller Stables received the M brand in 1999, a registered Colorado brand M connected spear over quarter circle which is used on horses owned by the ranch. The horses that you see branded on the left hip are sired by Diggers Rest. The horses that are branded on the right hip are not sired by him.