 speech that you are given you get the prompt prior to so you get to kind of write that and know your thoughts before you get out there and then you have a behind closed doors interview just with your judges to get to know them and be able to them judge who's got good interview skills and then there's a horsemanship part and so you bring your own horse out there and you have a pattern and you get to perform that pattern in front of those judges along with a few horsemanship questions