It’s a Thursday, and the sky is full of dust here.

James Webster Metoyer is again in the saddle, like he is most days, tearing down the side rail at the Long Beach Riverbed Horse Arena.

For Metoyer and his fellow Compton cowboys, it’s just another day riding horses.

At Queue-Up, young men and women are bucking away the idea that Compton is only a place for gangsters. This unique club pairs at-risk youth with handicap kids, keeping the former off the streets, while the latter learns to overcome the seemingly impossible: horseback riding, despite a physical disability.

According to executive director Corrine Paige, the pairing has worked to perfection.

Most days, Queue-Up cowboys can be found riding the arenas, backyards, even streets, of Compton — a place, believe it or not, founded on the principals of farming and the cowboy life. At Richland Farms, site of Queue-Up’s headquarters, a glimpse of large animals, like horses, is no unusual sight. The neighborhood is specially zoned to allow for large animals, a decree extending back to the forming of the city by Griffith Compton.

Although crime rates remain fairly high, residents say Compton is changing.

Queue-Up members say the program saved their lives.