Can a Mini pull 2 people in a Cart??

[Becky Horat]

Oh..this is Awesome!! I've never seen this!!! Now I'm ruined. Having been a barrel racer for years....I would absolutely love to do this just to show that Minis can do it...maybe not as fast. The problem I see, is the ground issue. Usually footing is pretty deep. Oh, well...some day!! I love this. Thanks for sharing. I shared it on Facebook. You made my night.

 

[rimmerpaints]

Robbie has pulled my husband and my three girls but my girls are tiny. One is 4 weights 25 pound and the other two 5 and 6 are 32 pounds so your talking 89 pounds between all three

 

[paintponylvr]

Ok, Becky, I'm goijg to have to do some digging. There is a Mini driver on the East Coast (VA, MD??) that regularly has children competing in "speed events" on her finished minis - DRIVING. Martha Duchnowsk and I can't for the life of me remember her farm name ... silk purse??

I think I viewed pics thru Ponydriving on Yahoo Groups (I get the posts in digest from as one email - been quiet lately). She runs a 4H club and the kids regularly go to 4h shows at all levels including state... That's all I can remember ...

http://www.minihorsecde.com/index.html here is her donated site - I'm not finding hers but can't go thru all the links right now... She's been doing this a long time. I loved the pics - last year I think - of some of her "kids" performing. One pic showed a girl not freaking out as cart started to tip - put hand, arm, body out and righted cart - think she actually finished the event up high in the ribbons - either a barrel race or pole bending in the cart. MAN, their minis scoot!!!! I can certainly understand why they do well against full size horses - if they are in shape and enjoy the "work". Later, I'll see if I can find some pics - if I saved them or the email...

site above that really got me looking at trying out CDE stuff...

 

[susanne]

Here's Martha's farm site:

http://www.minihorsecde.com/SilkPurseHome.html

 

[Field-of-Dreams]

I know, it should be a total 'pfft', that is what these little horses are made for! It is just funny the attitudes of some people though. I was feeling so okay with it and excited and then a driver (of big horses) was really mean/disrespectful and told me I should lose weight and that people shouldn't drive minis at all.

I am normally pretty resilient to other peoples BS but it really did shake and upset me, maybe as it was so personal

Ignore it. I am a big woman and he has no problems at all!

Now, I DO feel uncomfortable driving the 29" guy- only because I am also tall and it looks STUPID!

 

[Jules]

Ignore it. I am a big woman and he has no problems at all!

Now, I DO feel uncomfortable driving the 29" guy- only because I am also tall and it looks STUPID!

Yeah, I need a hefty dose of 'harden up' I think , or selective deafness to rude people with offensive comments They must be just jealous that my feedbill is only a minute fraction of theirs. lol

 

[Mr.T]

in 4H driving it is required that there be 2 passengers. I always found that rule sort of silly for the miniatures but I don't think they thought they would ever get mini's driving!

 

[Becky Horat]

All 4-H driving classes require 2 people in the cart? I guess we've never had driving classes in our 4-H shows here. That would be tough....especially if the ground was deep.

 

[rbrown]

In WI, we didn't have to have 2 people in the cart for 4-H driving... don't think my girl would have been happy about pulling two of us in deep sand arenas!!

 

[hobbyhorse23]

Since Happs is no more (the venue is now called Happy Trails), the old website is gone, but I hope Maureen Harkcom will repost her data. In the meantime, I wonder if Leia, the Whitemans, Amy, or other NW people have printouts of this. I wish I had thought to do that.

No, sorry. I thought about it but the data was so limited and so out-of-date that I didn't think it was relevant anymore. The minis are no longer struggling for acceptance so much and as far as I knew most venues are allowing them to do full-length marathons without concern. Maybe that was short-sighted of me! I know I'm a bit out of touch with what's going on back East these days.

in 4H driving it is required that there be 2 passengers. I always found that rule sort of silly for the miniatures but I don't think they thought they would ever get mini's driving!

I don't believe that's the case in Washington 4-H. We've got a lot of minis here!

Leia

 

[paintponylvr]

ok, I found pictures and info from Martha - on the Pony Driving List (Yahoo Groups). She talks about her 4H kids competing, shows pics and also talks about the Hyperbike. This was in 2009.

What is the rule about posting a copy of a post:?? OR pictures?? Also I know that I can post a pic in a new topic, but how do you do a pic in a reply post?

O, and it doesn't appear that their 4H clubs require a 2nd driver in Martha's state....