The In-hand Course

The competition started at 8am on Friday with the Idols division in-hand course. Our draw had us going 2nd out of 34 horses! Oh well, we would get it over with quickly at least. Baja did well when we went in the ring. He stood well for saddling and picking up his feet. When we got to the trailer, he loaded his front feet in and backed out twice before going into the trailer. His only other bauble was when we did the catch and release pen, he didn't want to leave me! I had to shoo him away 3 times! With that over with, I got to relax and watch everyone else. I didn't feel so bad about our performance once I watched a few of the others go and saw the troubles they were having getting their horses to stand still, trot, etc.

They posted the results after everyone went through and we were in 7th place after the in-hand course!! (later changed to eighth place?!?)