Hi all, As to pairs trainers, I can not more highly recommend Larry Poulin. He is marvelous. He put together my first pair of Welsh Cobs after training each singles. We worked together over a summer deciding IF they had pair potential together. I decided after a couple of months that they did not suit each other the way I wanted. Larry listened (this is VERY important) and guided me every step of the way from harness, harnessing, vehicle and my driving. I decided that my import Welsh Cob mare was better suited to returning to my broodmare band not because of lack of talent driving singles but rather her lack of motivation driving pairs. My homebred mare seemed to 'shine' much more and is doing well singles awaiting her full sister to get old enough to perhaps be part of the pair of my dreams. We will see if she has 'potential' this fall when she goes to Larry as a late two year old for some light training.... My homebred mare will be returning to FL with Larry this winter getting much needed experience in singles and who I hope to do a couple of FL CDE's with. I need the practice much more than she since she did a great job for Larry at Nature Coast last winter http://www.dawnalisa.blogspot.com/. Better to get MY experience singles after a long time off from doing CDE's. Things are greatly different than the 1980's when I did CDE's with single Sec. B Welsh ponies and road cart for all phases <VBG>. IT is a different world today. Yours, Claudia Novak www.tangwyllt.com _________________________________________________________ To Unsubscribe, change to Digest or Vacation mode go to: http://www.drivingpairs.com/index.php?pg=2 `````````````````````````````````````````````````````````