You are the Old West clean through, and you were born to ride. Working on a ranch is your life, and has been since you were 5 years old. But even more than horses, you love kids. Being a trainer at The Masters Stables, you’re able to follow both your passions, riding and working with students. Though you still have a dream to become a professional on the rodeo circuit when you’re older, you know you’ll always come back to teaching. You are a great leader and inspire all the students to be their best. You are looked up to and respected by parents and students alike. Your team knows your accomplishments and wish they could be like you one day.

Everyone loves horses, but you were born to ride. This is your life, and has been since you were 6 years old. But even more than horses, you love kids. Being a trainer at The Masters Stables, you’re able to follow both your passions, riding and working with kids. Though you still have a dream to become a professional jumper on the Grand Prix circuit when you’re older, you know you’ll always come back to teaching. You are a great leader and inspire all the students to be their best. You are looked up to and respected by parents and students alike. Your team knows your accomplishments and wish they could be like you one day.

As the child of Mr. Masters, the owner of The Masters Stables, everyone is always very nice to you. Everyone but your father, that is. He’s so busy with business that you hardly ever see him. You started coming to the stables hoping that he’d take more notice of you. Well, that didn’t work out, but you did discover your passion for Western riding. You definitely want to do work with horses for the rest of your life. If only your father knew that. If only your father knew anything about you. You’d do almost anything to get him to sit up and take notice.

For the last two years, you’ve brought home the more ribbons to The Masters Stables than any other student in the Hunter Jumper school. You are confident, competent and cool. People respect you for your focus and determination, but you’re just in it for the love of the game. This is really going to be your year. You swept the last two Manuary Invitationals and you plan to clean up a few days from now in your third.

You have always wanted to be a comedian when you grew up. Now that you've been riding horses, however, you've got a much more exciting plan. You close your eyes, and it's so easy to picture yourself with your whole face painted, wearing those baggy pants, those red shoes, that rainbow wig. You're going to be a rodeo clown! It's a wonderful job for someone like you who loves to laugh at every part of life. You know that it takes a special kind of person to be able to laugh, and make a crowd laugh, while being chased down by an angry bull! It's perfect!

Though your list is always growing, so far you have 47 friends. You know the exact number because you keep track of them all in your handy little notebook. When you meet new people that you think will become your friends, you write down their names, ages, email addresses, and any other interesting tidbits they share with you. You want your friends to know that they’re important enough to be remembered. You send birthday cards and thank-you notes on time and without fail. You’re a great best friend. It’s what you do! Maybe today at the Unity Day celebration you can add a few new names to your friend notebook!

For the last three years, you’ve brought home the more awards to The Masters Stables than any other student in the Western riding school. You are confident, competent and cool. People respect you for your focus and determination, but you’re just in it for the love of the game. This is really going to be your year. You’re in peak condition, after all. You were the toast of the junior rodeo circuit last season, and this time you’ve got a new plan to keep them talking for years to come.

If there’s a book written on English style riding that you don’t have, it’s not worth having. You’ve read them, memorized them, and now you live by them. Nothing gets past you, either. You don’t tolerate stretching rules and bending regulations in your presence. Everything has to be perfect, or nothing can move. Some might call you annoying or say you’re a know-it-all, just because you’re the first to open you’re mouth, but those people are just jealous because you’re always right. Most people, however, are always coming to you for advice.

Just because the cowboys of the Old West were rough and tumble and took risks they didn’t need to doesn’t mean you have to as well. You parents thought that putting you in dangerous situations, like learning to ride, rope, and barrel race, would make you bolder. Yeah, THAT makes a lot of SENSE! Like how eating 100 pounds of ice cream will make a person thin? Or how watching sad movies will make a person happy? Their logic is flawed, seriously flawed. You strongly suspect your parents are crazy, as is anyone else who thinks riding horses is safe.

You don't feel like doing anything. You’re awkward, out of place, and you probably wouldn’t want to do what you’re supposed to be doing, even if you did have the slightest idea what that was. You’d rather be at home playing StarRanger or FantasyZone 4 with your friends online. They respect you there, and you wouldn’t have to get sweaty with all these dirty animals. Besides, riding is boring. You’re only doing this because your parents think video games are rotting your mind.

You don't say much when people are around. You want to... but you just don't. Really you are eager to learn and participate, but for some reason you always hold back. You tend to hide in corners, hoping someone will come along to pull you into an activity. There’s no reason why you act that way. You’re just scared other people will think that you’re stupid or not good enough to hang out with them. Most people are nice to you, though. Maybe you were just born shy.

“Come on. Come on. Come on! Let ride the horses now!” If they didn’t stop you, you’d just jump strait on the nearest horse, even if it wasn’t prepped or saddled up. "Hold your horses!" people say. “You’ll have to wait. Everyone here loves horses.” But you just love doing things. If stuff isn’t happening fast enough, you offer suggestions like, “Let’s play a game of speed checkers,” or, “Why don’t we go run a mile around the stables?” Your parents are always apologizing to people, saying that you’ve had too much sugar. Lies! In fact, you feel just fine.

Some people are good at math. Some are good at sports. You’re good at being cool. That means not only being pretty darn good at just about everything, but also being good at understanding people and making them like you. Your parents have told you that they believe if you study hard you could be president some day. That’s why to teach you the value of hard work, they signed you up for Western riding lessons at The Masters Stables. Caring for horses and tack is hard work, it’s true, but you still think being cool is much more useful.

Everyone has a theory about what life is, a stage, a game, a dance. You think life is a joke. Not one big joke, but millions of teeny tiny totally hilarious jokes. You laugh all day, every day, and can’t understand why the rest of the world isn’t laughing right along with you. In your opinion, few things are funnier than horseback riding. Who in their right mind would think to stick one animal on top of another animal? It’s insanity! No, better. It’s hilarity. *Snicker*

There’s only one right way to do something. Unless a person knows what that right way is, he or she is doomed to do something wrong! You won’t let that happen. Not on your watch. You’ve read every book there is to read on the Old West and Western riding. That way if people have questions, or are just plain doing something wrong, you can step up and let them know they’re messing up and how to fix it. People around you don’t always appreciate your expertise when you correct them, but they’ll thank you someday.

Supposedly everyone knows that it’s better safe than sorry, but nobody follows that. People take crazy risks all the time, especially your parents. They signed you up for horse riding lessons thinking that strapping yourself to the back of a twelve-hundred pound animal and scaring yourself silly would make you a braver person. You’d laugh if your teeth weren’t chattering so badly. So far you’ve compromised by riding the pony. The old, small pony that can’t run fast.

Everybody needs a friend, and that friend is you! If someone forgets a lasso, you loan out yours. Advice? A shoulder to cry on? Half of your lunch? You’re there! If there’s a chore to be done, no matter how dirty, grimy, or sweaty, you volunteer right away. The world needs people who will just smile, be selfless, and do what needs to be done. You’re one of those people. Happy, peppy, and proud, you’re the biggest fan of anyone who needs a fan, standing up for the weak and sad.

When people around you laugh, or make a comment you can’t hear, you’re convinced they’re making fun of you. You don’t know why you feel that way, no one has ever really been mean to you in your life, but you have this feeling that the others around you are against you some how. After you get to know a person you know that your fears were silly, but you can’t stop them when there are people around you that you don’t know. You offer shy smiles and shake hands softly when someone else offers, but you rarely say what you’re thinking until you really believe that the person you’re talking to is your friend.

For you, action and speed is the definition of fun! You’re a climber, runner, cliff jumper, adventurer at heart. Until you’re old enough to start doing all the things you want to do, you’ll just have to keep talking your parents into letting you try exciting new things, like horseback riding. As soon as you think you’re ready, and the trainers turn their backs, you plan to start practicing horseback acrobatics! Handstands and back flips here you come!

You may not be best rider, but you definitely ride with the most style. You always know what looks good, and you know what’s going on. When you’re at the stable, everyone either wants to be you or wants to be around you. You’re used to it, though. That’s pretty much the way it is everywhere you go. Your parents wanted you to get into the Hunter Jumper school at The Masters Stables in order to teach you life skills that were more important than being popular and keeping up appearances. The joke’s on them! These competitions are all about grooming, posture, and making the judges love you.