Thursday morning the in hand competition is under way at 8am. Firsts the stars, then the idols,
and then it was time for the legends. We drew up 54th so it was in the afternoon before our turn came. I had been working with Knight to get him to trot when I ask him too. Finally its our turn and we entered the arena, the first maneuver requires us to trot , we headed for the first poles
and Knight started off trotting and following well but as I got closer to the poles he broke down to a walk and refused to trot up beside me. This was a HUGE setback. We finished the course and he all of the maneuvers well expect he was alittle reluctant to load in the trailer and once again refused to trot. However we did finish the course and turned in a completed run. Failing to trot has dug a hole that has made it almost impossible to make the finals.
This portion of the competition counts for 30% of the score.
