Hi Hardy, as you are handy here, and reading emails, let me bug you a little on my little pair. This figure 8 exercise a the walk --that allows the driver to bend the inside horse wi the inside rein: it requires that the outside horse drop out of draft (a bit)... my problem is that my little black mare is a workaholic, and when i ask the grey to step up more, her partner says "not without me!" (although it works beautifully in the other direction- the little grey would happily sit on the seat beside me, i think, with her feet up.) I have been working them straight down the road, and making working at keeping them straight on the pole, and not bulging away, (as i had been allowing.) This has helped improve work on circles -- but is there another way for me to ask for more bend from the one, yet with the other insisting on pulling as well? I recall that the exercise worked beautifully in our clinic but I have been unable to reproduce it, exactly...although yesterday we were closer. ``````````````````````````````````````````````` Thanks, Nancy in NH _________________________________________________________ To Unsubscribe, change to Digest or Vacation mode go to: http://www.drivingpairs.com/dpmem.html `````````````````````````````````````````````````````````