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Taylor's the new Western riding instructor at Starry Skies Equestrian School! She teaches intermediate through advanced riders, while her friend, Abbey, teaches beginners.

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Name: Johnathon Thomas Moore
Age: 23
Gender: Male
Appearance: Brown hair with hazel eyes, no tattoos. Muscular, because he played football in high school. He looks intimidating.

Riding Experience: Intermediate: Johnathon has been riding since he was twenty, though his sister, Taylor, never knew about it.

Disciplines: Cattle Cutting

Personality: Cocky, rude, and arrogant. Johnathon always made fun of Taylor because of her obsession with horses when they were younger. Johnathon isn't the nicest guy, but he can be caring if he wants to.

History: Johnathon grew up with his little sister, Taylor, in San Antonio, Texas, with their two brothers. He's a player and has had about thirty girlfriends since sixth grade. Always the popular guy in school.

Riding School: Starry Skies Equestrian School (he wants to keep an eye on his sister. . . .)

Lesson horse: Rose

Family: Johnathon is Taylor's second oldest brother. Their oldest brother is still in prison, he's 28. Taylor's older brother and Johnathon's younger brother is 21.

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Johnathon entered the horse show at Starry Skies in the Cutting division.

Taylor entered the horse show at Starry Skies in the Barrel Racing and Speed Trail Ride classes.

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Taylor suggest to Josh that they should ride down to the beach for their trail ride.

Taylor sees a riderless horse when out riding Skylar, then, riding down the trail the horse came from, she sees Erin and a little paint foal.

Taylor is excited about finally jumping, when Gena sets up a cross-rail jump and ground poles during Taylor's lesson.

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Kristen tells Erin that she'll need to take good care of the foal she found.

Taylor tells her friend's why she named Skylar's filly Tempest.

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Taylor helped Erin care for the little foal.

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Taylor and Josh started their trail ride out to the beach.

Angela met Nessa, a young girl who wants to become a jockey.

The receptionist at the hospital took Taylor's temperature and found out it was 106* Fahrenheit! Oh, geez, she's in trouble.

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While out on their trail ride, Taylor and Josh met up with her brother, Johnathon. Things aren't going well so far.

Taylor, Cassie, and Lucy are all going out to eat after their riding lesson.

The doctor tells them that Taylor has a minor case of disease called Infectious Mononucleosis.

Taylor admitted to Cassie that she had a miscarriage when she was fifteen.

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Angela tells her new jockey-in-training, Nessa, that she can ride a Thoroughbred mare named Stormy for training.

Angela hired a woman to work her Thoroughbreds when the aren't ridden by students.

Johnathon found out that Cassie is only 18. "Darn it," is his opinion about it.

To his delight, Johnathon finds his sister, Taylor, out riding with some guy (Josh), and starts bothering them.

Taylor becomes visibly hurt and upset when her brother mentions what happened when she was fifteen

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Taylor can tell on their trail ride that Josh wants to know what happened when she was fifteen, the second Johnathon brought the subject up.

Johnathon wants to start a fight with Dean and ignores Cassie.

Angela watched Bree and her horse, Cookie, perform some dressage moves. They were truly amazing!

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Angela told Nessa, her new jockey-in-training, to go tack up the Thoroughbred Stormy, then take her out to the track.

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Name: Taylor Chelsea Moore
Age: 18
Gender: Female
Birth Date: May 13, 1994
Relationship Status: Dating Joshua Williams

Appearance: Straight dark brown hair with chocolate brown eyes; long eyelashes; light colored skin; 122 pounds; 5/6 feet. Tattoo of stars on her left shoulder, leading down to the side of her chest. Pierced once on her ears.

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Friends: Cassie, Sara, Molly, Kayla, Megan, Charlie, Ella, Amy, Lucy, Alison, Abbey, Gena, Kolten, Serena, Tom, Erin.

Pets: Molly, a chocolate-colored Labrador Retriever.

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Riding Experience: Advanced; Taylor started riding her aunt's Shetland pony when she was five years old. She showed for the first time when she was seven.

Disciplines: Taylor got interested in barrel racing when she was nine years old and has been riding western and showing in barrel racing ever since. Taylor is now taking English lessons, so things are changing.

Personality: Taylor is friendly, a bit shy around guys, and confident with any horse thrown at her. Taylor will, however, become mean and harsh to defend herself and her friends if necessary.

Likes: Horses, dogs, riding, trail rides, Italian food, seafood, pizza, Mexican food, swimming, chocolate, dark-colored soda, reading, listening to music, playing her trumpet, hanging with her friends.

Dislikes: Animal abuse, bullies, arrogance, horse slaughter, her brothers (most of the time), American cheese, soy milk, racism, sexist guys.

History: Taylor was born in Sacramento, California, but grew up in San Antonio, Texas, with three older brothers and their parents.

Mother: Cathryn Anne Moore (Harrison) is a veterinarian; she's fighting cancer right now. www.readexpress.com/read_freeride/photos/20080702-teenager2.jpg

Father: Richard Wayne Moore works for a large cable company called Comcast. i527.photobucket.com/albums/cc356/MileyCyrusFan_014/medderwin.jpg?t=1242010366

Siblings: Johnathon (23) is Taylor's second oldest brother. Their oldest brother (28) is currently in prison. Taylor's older brother and Johnathon's younger brother (21) is still in college.

Riding School: Starry Skies Equestrian School

Occupation: Intermediate-Advanced Western riding instructor.

Horses Owned: Taylor's parents leased her a grey welsh pony gelding named when she was seven to ten years old. Her parents bought Skylar for Taylor's eleventh birthday, and almost six years later, Skylar gave birth to a filly, whom Taylor named Tempest. Skylar was recently put down due to Navicular Disease, so Taylor's father bought a Arabian gelding named Sozin for her. Taylor now holds on to Sozin and Tempest like the end of the world is tomorrow, after Skylar died.
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DECEASED (Dead)

Horse's Name: Skycat's Twister (Skylar)
Breed: Purebred Paint Horse
Age: 10
Gender: Mare
Height: 15.2hh
Personality: Uncommonly gentle and calm for a mare. Skylar is practically bomb-proof.
Disciplines: Western; barrel racing mostly.
Appearance: Palomino overo with a white blaze and one sock.

mountaintrailhorses.com/horses/blondie/blondieheadshotlores_1.jpg (Skylar's face)

aspenranchrealestate.com/images/blondieleftside.jpg (Skylar's left side)

mountaintrailhorses.com/horses/blondie/Blondierightsidelores_1.jpg (Skylar's right side)

mountaintrailhorses.com/horses/blondie/face.JPG (Lunging Skylar)

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Vices and Quirks: Skylar tends to be gentler with women rather than men; she nips and pins her ears back at most guys.

History: Skylar was born on March 9, 2001. She's been showing in barrel racing since she was four years old with Taylor.

Foals: Her first foal, a filly, was born in a large foaling stall in the Alone Stable at Starry Skies on August 17, 2010 during a storm that resulted in a tornado.

Death: Skylar had a growing problem called Navicular Disease, that Taylor doesn't know about. The pain is caused by progressive degeneration of the navicular bone, a small bone inside the foot, and the tendon which passes over it. Many horses (including her) are put down on the spot because of this.

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Horse's Name: Southern Tempest (Tempest)
Breed: 75% Paint Horse 25% Arabian
Gender: filly
Age: eleven months (8-17-2010)
Height: 12.3hh (will be 15.3hh)
Appearance: Chestnut tobiano with a slightly dished face. Tempest is a bit stocky and has a blaze on her face. Tempest almost always has her tail raised when she runs around and when she jumps.

ctarabians.com/melanie-2.jpg (Five years old #1)

www.mktgallop.com/images/Dixie%201.jpg (Five years old #2)

ctarabians.com/melanie-15.jpg (Five years old #3)

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Disciplines: Taylor wants to train Tempest to be an Eventing horse. She can train Tempest to show jump and cross country on her own, but will need help from others when it comes to dressage.

Personality: She is very curious and always has to investigate things that interest her. Tempest is hyper, but always a good girl and is never mean to people or horses. Very, very playful.

Vices & Quirks: Nips a little just for play, investigates everything and is unafraid of anything you throw at her.

History: Tempest's mother died when she was eight months old, right after she was weaned.

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Why did you put Tay here?

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I don't know how this got here, Super!

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Weird! Nobody knows your password right?

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Nope. All I did was change the photo, so IDK!

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Skylar went lame because of Navicular Disease, and it's incurable. The vet, Kristen, told her that they could put her down now, or try and keep her going for a few years. Either way, Skylar won't live for more than five years now.

It's a good thing that Tempest is about to be weaned, because Taylor decided to put Skylar down rather than let her suffer.

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Name: Sozin's Comet (Sozin)
Age: 7
Breed: Arabian
Height: 15.1hh
Gender: Gelding
Appearance: Shiny black coat; Sozin has a big star on his forehead in the shape of a comet, hence his name. His coat dapples slightly in the summer if he has a good consistent diet and a lot of exercise.
Vices: Sozin likes to nibble on you if he knows you have treats.
Disciplines: Dressage
Showing Experience: Sozin has been shown in Dressage since he was five years old
Personality: Very friendly toward everybody. He cares a lot about Taylor, because he can sense that she recently suffered a loss. Sozin is like a big brother toward Tempest, since she lost her mother due to Navicular Disease.

Anything Else: Taylor's father bought Sozin for her when she called him, saying that Skylar had been put down. Unfortunately, Taylor was very against owning Sozin, but when she realized that it was time to move on an take care of both Tempest and Sozin.

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Even though her friends might not know it yet, Taylor is about to leave Starry Skies Equestrian School, due to her pain about losing Skylar.

Taylor met up with Gena in the barn, and tried to ignore the fact that Gena was trying to talk to her about Skylar's death.

Josh and Taylor are walking back to the apartments to tell Cassie about what happened to Skylar. Here, Taylor's going to break the news to them that she's leaving.

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Name: After The Storm (Stormy)
Breed: Thoroughbred
Height: 16.1hh
Age: 21
Gender: Mare
Owner: Angela Monroe.

Foals: Two fillies, five colts. Pregnant now with a filly by And His Name Was Bingo, owned by Grace Farley.

Appearance: Dappled rose-grey, but she's slowly turning whiter due to her aging.

Disciplines: Retired racehorse. She still practices on the track, but she is a jumper now.

Description: Stormy is the sweetest, gentlest, calmest, best horse you'll ever see. Stormy will do anything for her rider.

History: Stormy was born when Angela was around six years old. She learned how to ride on the grey mare. Angela has owned this mare her whole life and will keep her until her last breath. She used to be a racehorse, but retired after she fractured her cannon bone in a race. She has had seven foals so far, and is expecting another one.

Vices & Quirks: Stormy is very flirty with stallions and when she sees one, she goes a little uncharacteristically crazy.

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