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Old 05-24-2007, 04:25 AM
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Jill-O Jill-O is offline
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Oh yeah! I am a "driving" junkie!!! I have the one show cart pictured, a wooden easy entry that's pretty enough for shows and then two metal easy entry ones that are great for just having fun.

I have two full size horses, and one fo them drives, but it's a lot more fun to drive a mini. For one thing, the view with them is better than "Rocket's" big red butt in front of me! And they are faster to hook up.

The little "white" mini (who is actually a palomino, and was a stallion in the picture, now a gelding) is only 31" and he can pull my husband and I in the cart for hours when he is in shape. The silver mare is taller and she can easily pull two adults as well of course. We have six minis trained to drive currently, with plans to have a few more trained when we get around to it. One of them is a leopard mare who should look really flashy in the cart. Another is the show gelding in my signature (my favorite horse -- such a momma's boy...).

One really neat thing about driving a horse is that you can take friends with you who want to do something horsey but don't know how to ride or are not physically able to ride. Plus, you can actually have conversations while driving (w/ whoever is in the cart with you). Anytime I have trail riden with friends, it was about impossible to really have conversations, but you can in the cart.

Right now, I own a stallion who is showing from AR. He has recently finished about 6mos of training with a "name brand" trainer who's trained many National Champions. I'm really excited to see how the stallion will do at shows this season. He is a "hot" natured horse when all my other driving horses are very laid back. I'm actually happy I'm not the one driving Destiny at show -- I'd be kinda scared
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