Meadowgreen Molly-- “Maple” foaled in 1983 and Meadowgreen Treasure-- "Leaf" foaled 1984 at the farm of Nancy and Jon Roemer in dover Ohio.  Mimi Thorington bought them and I trained them to be a pair.  They excelled so quickly in the Combined Driving that soon we decided to see how they would do campaigning for the World Pair Championships.  Then she purchased Avalon Avante Guard--"Farm" foaled in 1987, out of North Carolina to be our spare horse.  Maple had the work ethic of the team that she would not let the other horses mess around.  Leaf would follow along and became solid as a rock snorting at things but never moving out of his space.  Farm was not the best mover of the three but had a heart of gold. I think we figured out that he competed in 64 CDEs during his driving career. He became the "marathon/cones man"--not sure I call that a spare horse!!  After Maple and Leaf were long finished competing, Farm was still going strong. Farm competed in Warka, Poland 2007 at the age of 20 and then he was retired.

 Mimi bred the next beastie Count On Me-- "Count" foaled 1994 at Maple Leaf Farm in East Fallowfield, PA. While he was growing up, Mimi purchased Battersea Chancellor--"Chance" who was foaled 1986 and raised by Frank Calhoun of Maryland.  Chance was a nitch-- always testing me but then would say "OK-I will do it!". He loved people watching him

 
Meanwhile Count was growing up and at 3, I broke him to drive--which was not easy!!  He was very insecure but once he got --HE GOT IT!!  He has fabulous movement and became very steady and it was little work to make him a good dressage horse. AND he trusted me to the fullest.

While Count was becoming a more solid driving horse,Maple and Leaf were at the age to retire and I needed another horse. I went out to Laramie, WY to Mears Morgans there I came home with 3 horses Laramie, Cooper (Shelly Temple's pony) and Lr Ami Bengali --"Gali" who foaled in 1996.  It did not take long to put him in the pair and he had the movement to match Count.  With in 2 years the 2 horses were a unit.......and best buddies. One of our off years in 2008, Gali colicked while in SC and after two surgeries two weeks apart removing a total of 14 " of intestines and 6 weeks at University of Georgia, thank goodness he came home.  The next year, he competed in a World Championship!!

Meanwhile Chance was getting up in age so I needed another horse. I looked in my back field and there was Tilba, a Swedish Warmblood/Morgan cross that I bred.  She was driving but I told her it was time to be a BEASTIE!!  OH, what a prima-donna, but she was good enough to go to the championships in Hungary and Poland.  She had a little more power and would kick in turbo charge in the hazards.  

From here things starting going down hill when I had to retire Count due to Desmitis--sure google it!  The other downer is that driving pairs is just becoming too expensive to compete at the FEI level on my own.  BUT-- it is hard to stop.  I was given a Oldenburg from Dr. Jim Juzwick and his wife Darcy because he could not be ridden due to having a "kissing spines". John Paul --" JP" foaled 2002 was broken to drive and he was happy to not have weight on his back. He was great at driving but move totally different from Gali and Tilba.  He had a very lofty trot but we kept at it!!

Since JP wasn't a perfect fit, I was keeping my eye out for another horse to work into the pair--Gali was too young to stop competing. Then last fall Rebbecca Guiterrez was in the process from moving from New Mexico to Aiken, SC, so Azkachina Warrior-- "Warrior" who foaled 2004 was hanging out in my paddocks when I arrived to Windsor for the winter for me to give him a try.....sure why not!! He had driven Training level as a pair and although he took to Gali and the increased workload with no issues, the logistics were hard to move him along quickly enough for the 2013 Pairs Championships in Topolcianky, Slovakia.  And unfortunately, at the last selection trial in april 2013, he became lame just before the jog. It ended up being a quick fix with some time off, but made us loose our chance to be selected on the team.  SOOOO regroup time!!

Warrior went back with his MOM--Rebecca- after she competed him and  Gali preliminary at Glen Willow CDE and came in 2nd.  
As for the others, JP had a successful back operation and is back with his original owners being ridden dressage again.  Tilba is also off being ridden and is very content to do eventing-- she loves to jump!!  Gali is still being driven single and pair and giving lessons---- he has to keep going........just in case!!  :)

 1995 Poznan, Poland:   Maple, Leaf andFarm   with Paige Singer, Lori Conaty and Noel

1997  Reseinbeck, Germany:  Leaf, Farm and Chancellor with Paige Singer, Shelly Temple and Roger Summers

1999  Kecskemet, Hungary:  Leaf, Farm and Chancellor  with Paige Singer,  Shelly Temple, Fran Doto and Roger Summers

2001  Reseinbeck, Germany:  Count, Farm and Chancellor  with Paige Singer, Shelly Temple, Fran Doto and Roger Summers

2003 Jardy, France:  Count, Gali and Farm  with Paige Singer, Beth Berlin and Jay Breggia

2005  Salsburg, Austria:  Count, Gali and Farm with Beth Berlin, Suzy Stafford and Jay Breggia

2007  Warka, Poland: Count, Farm and Tilba  with, Beth Berlin, Suzy Stafford and Jay Breggia

2009  Kecskemet, Hungary:  Count, Gali and Tilba  with Beth Berlin, Paige Singer and Jay Breggia