[drivingpairs] Re: cones course

In a message dated 6/2/2006 11:05:35 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:

> From: "Anne Councill" <accouncill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [drivingpairs] Cones Courses
> Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2006 07:39:37 -0400
> 
> Hope this is an appropriate discussion for this list.  A word to the wise
> and a tip to offer.  Be careful with pleasure show cones courses, some of
> them are not well designed and are very difficult for novice drivers to
> drive and punishing for green horses.  Give it the golf cart test when it's
> set up.  If it doesn't flow in a golf cart you can't drive it with a green
> horse.  Make it difficult by making the clearance a minimum amount not by
> making the course twisty/tight.
> Anne
> 
Whooo hoo, man you got that right...   I just went to Mule Days up in Bishop, 
CA to help out a friend.  I couldn't believe the cones course!  Lets just put 
it politely that it was appropriate for a mini and not the big guys.  
However, on that note, a great many of the competators went 'clean' on balls, 
but 
EVERYONE had a break of pace due to the configuration of cones & distances 
between sets.  I was upset, but that's just me....the mule people to their 
credit 
just shruged and said at least this year they put NUMBERS on the cone sets!


Trish Demers
Lancaster, CA
Don't take life too seriously;  No one gets out alive.
Carpe Diem- Sieze  the day, lest the years imprison us

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