I just signed on as a new user so hopefully I will get accepted as a member :-) _____ From: drivingpairs-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:drivingpairs-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of SLittle Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 5:50 AM To: drivingpairs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [drivingpairs] Re: Forum I didn't read all the discussion on the new forum but it looks fine to me. Question, did I forget a password? _____ From: drivingpairs-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:drivingpairs-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Carpediemfarm@xxxxxxx Sent: Monday, June 05, 2006 2:39 PM To: drivingpairs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [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