Meet the 2009 Team!

Back row from left: Jacque Pollock, Lydia Berg, Brandi Raymo, Ashley Romani.

Front row from left: Zacharie Gile, Josa Comstock, Eden Manuel, Elizabeth Franzone.

Team coach is Linda Lanzer, assisted by moms Rikki Pollock and Maria Comstock, who also enjoy driving. Costume designer this year is Mary Anderson, music coordinator and web designer is Stacy Lucht, routine designer is coach Linda.

Jacque has been driving with the team since 2005. She is pictured here with Ariel, the daughter of one of our annual sponsors. Ariel rode in the cart with Jacque during the Saturday performance at Midwest.

Pepper is actually an Appaloosa mini, but his spots are only visible when he gets a bath. He and Jacque were born in the same year.

Eden joined the team near the end of 2006. She is pictured here with Lauren, the daughter of another annual sponsor. She rode in the cart with Eden during the Friday performance.

Romeo is a mini she is leasing from Double L Equestrian. He was acquired as a yearling and was trained to drive in 2006 as he turned 3. Eden had her eye on him and has been driving him on the team since 2007 when he became available.

Josa has been riding for several years on her own pony. In spring of 2006 at age 8, she started driving lessons, after seeing the mini team drive. She fell in love with driving immediately and was very excited to drive with the team at the Holistic Animal Health Fair in 2006. When she's not driving, she is busy riding her pony, Curly Tango. She is also helping to train her new puppy, Sugarbear and keeps up with her dance classes.

Bugsy is Josa's own mini who she bought in 2006. He was a little strong for her at first, but now they are working well together and she is very happy to be driving him with the team and occasionally at shows.

Lydia joined the team after seeing them at Midwest. She comes from an hour away in Wisconsin to practice with them weekly. Her own mini is too small to keep up the drill pace, so she works with minis that the team needs introduced to the drill routine. She started with Hawk at Midwest and then drove Honey at the West20 competition. She drove Jojo at Walworth county. She has ariding horse that she likes to run speed with.

Ashley joined the team as a part time driver. This year she had her own mini ready to drive, after training him over the winter. He is still young, but he's doing great with the team. She also has her own horse that she shows in speed classes and she works at Grand Geneva taking out trail rides to earn spending money and board for her horses.

Maria and Romeo

Linda is the founder and coach of the team and fills in when needed to make an even number, so no one has to be left out or if there are less than 8 drivers.