Saturday morning the riding competition is under way. I let Knight have Friday off to rest.
He is irritable like a tired child. After the competition on Thursday we are setting somewhere
near the end of the pack. He will have to have the best ride of his life and allot of favor to have a shot into the finals. All the horses were body conditioned scored before we are to ride them in the competition. He turned in a fairly high body condition score and will help as it counts for 20% of the total score. We again drew up late in the competition , went in as drew 64.
We trotted into the arena and stopped in the center and started the run. Knight turned around at about 50% of his capability. His circles at the lope weren't bad. The obstacles that were in the arena went well and the 2 minute freestyle after the obstacle course went well.
I side passed him all the way through the poles on the ground in the shape of a W, walked him up over the bridge, then I backed him over the bridge and the announced there was 30 seconds left to go , so I got off and laid him down and rode him up off the ground to complete our run.
I feel it was a pretty good run. We ended up placing 17th. The body condition score and this run brought us way up from the in hand course to finish in the middle of some very tough competition. I feel it was a success to be competitive in this field.
