Rick Toering, with his wife Jayne and their two daughters Hanna and Jordan, operate Bent Hickory Farm (www.facebook.com/BentHickoryFarm), a small breeding and competition barn in Northern Virginia, where they produce all-around athletic Hanoverian horses with talent and temperament for the hunter/jumper market. In 1998, the Toerings purchased their first Hanoverian jumper-bred filly. In 2014, a granddaughter of this filly achieved the second highest mare performance test score in the country. That year, the Toering daughters, at ages 12 and 14, were some of the youngest riders to successfully complete a mare performance test with the AHS.

Rick currently serves as the Executive Vice President of the AHS Board, chair of the AHS Corporate Regulations and Grievance Committee, and chair of the Jumper Breeding Committee. In 2016, Rick successfully proposed the requirements by which hunter stallions may be fully approved for breeding with both the AHS and the Verband. For many years, the Toering family hosted the annual Mid-Atlantic Hanoverian Breeders' Mare Inspection and Performance Test at their facility in Waterford, Virginia.