Christine Brodbeck

Q.	What is your full name?	Christine Brooke Brodbeck
Q.	Do you have a nickname?	Brookie
Q.	How old are you?	12
Q.	Where do you live?	Carrollton, TX
Q.	What is your favorite food?	Pickles
Q.	What is your favorite color?	Lime Green
Q.	Do you have any lucky numbers?	2
Q.	When you show, do you have any superstitions or lucky charms?	No, but I do pray before I go into the ring.
Q.	What hobbies do you have other than riding horses?	Shopping
Q.	What grade are you in?	6th
Q.	What do you want to be when you grow up?	Fashion Designer
Q.	How long have you been riding?	Three years.
Q.	What was the name of your first pony or horse? If you showed then, in what division did you show?	Danny/Dancing Days. I showed in the Small Pony Division.
Q.	Who was your first trainer?	Katja Kallenberger
Q.	List horses and/or ponies that you owned/showed before your current one (name, nickname, height, age, breed, color, sex, what division shown in, show highlights).	Danny and Mickey, both ponies and both males. Danny was a Welsh and Mickey is mixed. I showed them only in the pony division and had a lot of fun.
Q.	List your current horses or ponies that you own/show (include name, nickname, height, age, breed, color, and sex) and what they are like to ride.	Right now I have a medium pony named Mousekins/Mickey. He is 13 years old, but he has great athletic abilities.
Q.	What is your current trainer’s name?	Katja and Gill Kallenberger
Q.	What is it about his/her training style that you like?	When I mess up, Katja is never afraid to tell me. She is always pushing me to be better, and it has worked! She is such a cool person to hang out with.
Q.	What is your favorite horse show?	Camino Real (Buffalo, Texas)
Q.	What is your favorite color for a horse?	Dapple Grey
Q.	What is your favorite breed of horse?	Holsteiner
Q.	What is the funniest or most embarrassing thing that has happened to you while showing a horse or pony?	I was on Danny and he stopped suddenly at a fence at Las Colinas, and I went over it but Danny did not.
Q.	What has been your proudest moment in riding/showing?	When I won an equitation class of 16 riders for the first time on my new pony.
Q.	What are your future plans for riding? Do you have any goals? (Grand Prix, equitation, hunter finals, qualifying, etc.)	I plan to ride for as long as I can. I love horses, and I want to work with them for my whole life, even if it is not my profession.