LisaKB -thanks for the info on the area, and the Area 2 group. I'll check out the yahoo group, for sure. Sounds like a fun group of people!

Also, thanks for the tip on Lisa Reid - She sounds like my last trainer - the ability to smell BS a mile away, and the inability to waste any time. I won't contact her any time soon, as I'm not even close to ready. The horse purchase would be in about two years. The greenie thing was partly to have the experience of bringing one along, but I have toyed with the idea of doing that for horse number two (ETA five years or so) and instead getting one that can bring me along, or at the very least leasing a horse who can show me the ropes of the eventing world.

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