Last Saturday, Kate and Katie Whaley welcomed members of the Lexington-area driving club, Spokes and Spurs, to their farm in Paris, Kentucky. On tap for the day: an informal schooling show (dressage test and cones course), followed by a delicious lunch in their spacious stable.

Jessica and her Mini had the best combined dressage / cones score of the day

Chloe went along for the ride with her person, Maggie Garrison

navigating the cones course

according to Colonel Davis, these two (Jack Goodman on the left and Maggie Garrison on the right) are illustrating the "best part of club drives: sitting and visiting with friends"

Next: driving classes at the Bluegrass Morgan Classic (in the covered arena at the Kentucky Horse Park) and, with luck and good scheduling, coaching at the Lex. Junior League Horse Show (at the Red Mile on Thursday evening). Stay tuned!