I recently asked New Mexico Horsewoman Tray Pelster what it takes to be a trainer.

I think a horse trainer is a horse trainer. You have to be, it's like a runner, people who run for fun. They're like, oh, you gotta be special. It's gotta be chasing you if you want me to run. It's the same concept to be a horse trainer and do it for the public and really enjoy doing it or just stay in the business for that long.

You really have to be a certain type of person. You have to be self-sufficient. You really have to check yourself but also be confident in yourself that you can do this. The horses are one of those animals. They're like kids and dogs. They will always put you on your butt. They will always prove you wrong and humble you in some way, shape or form. But horse trainers that are successful, they understand horses but they also understand people. So as far as differences between pleasure horse trainers and like I've worked for rope horse trainers, I've worked for all these different disciplines, types of trainers, there's really not many differences as far as like just a horse trainer is a horse trainer. They're all the same concept. They are very driven. They expect you to go out there and do your job and do it well. They expect for you to not have to be told what and how to do things. Also there's a certain level of learn but also ask if you don't quite understand. If you see growth in horses throughout the years with these trainers, you see growth in that trainer.

New Mexico horsewoman, Tray Pelster.

Today we talk to Tray Pelster again, this time about her Wild Cayuse Cinches business. Tell us more.

"I started this cinch making business with my mom probably seven years ago. I knew at some point I would be pregnant and having kids and that was my ultimate goal with my husband was to start a family and get to do this with a family. So I wanted to have a little bit of extra income and like a backup, but also I just really like building things and creating good quality tack for your broke cowboys out there. I felt like spending $200 on a cinch was just outrageous for it to go bad in six months, and I needed like four cinches I think. We could not afford it and my husband was working at a feed lot at that time and he'd been in a feed lot for a while. The feed lots just eat up your cinches, especially the cheap ones, and I just decided well, how hard could it be to make something like that? And my dad, he does leather work and he braids and he made his own tack for a very long time but cinches was one thing he never learned to make. And so I asked around in the area and I was like if I started making cinches would that be something you guys would be interested in buying? Probably 80% of the people that I asked said yeah like that's something we need. And it's good to know that we make a product that can help somebody like that because tack is extensive."

New Mexico horse trainer Tray Pelster. Find Wild Cayuse Cinches on Facebook or look for their website coming soon at wildcayusecinches.com.

New Mexico Horsewoman and trainer Tray Pelster on how she likes to start horses.

"I like to do a lot of ground work so I don't have to deal with as much crap on top of them. I have the time to spend with them when I was training horses under people. You have 30 days so you spend across the board from a lot of my trainers on average about a week, week and a half in the round pin and then you just get on them. You learn how to take shortcuts and you learn how to do it quickly and I would rather start them on the ground for about a month and just see where they're at. I was raised on hand cocks and that's slow, start them on the ground thing. They don't look near as hard. It's mostly a scared thing or a fight. I don't trust you situation and the majority of the time I've found that hand cocks that get a bad rap for things because they're smart and they're smarter than most people. But if you can teach them that this is not a fight or fight situation and that you can trust me and they won't want to try anything when you're on their back. So I've had great success with starting them slow on the ground and just covering all your bases and moving with the horse. See my dad, he's a firm believer in starting them three or four. I am like 125 pounds. So for learning from horse trainers, honestly I like to start them at two. Some horses with exception just because they're not mentally ready or they're not physically ready."

New Mexico horsewoman, Tray Pelster.