 Okay, Leigh, we're going to talk about this run. This is your first run in the go-round of the four-year-old Amateur and Craig and I are talking about a black cow that we want you to cut So as you walk into the herd one of the things that I want you to do is not pump your hand And I want you to make sure you know what cow we're talking about before you start forward So I'm pointing the cow out to you. You're looking at it But right here you're pumping your hand an awful lot, but you don't need to do I'm going to stop this film right here So you've made about 10 steps and in those 10 steps you've pumped your hand about four times And that doesn't it looks doesn't look very good number one as a showmanship Technique and also where you're giving miss mixed signals to your horse when these horses that are trained Walk through a herd of cattle. They're not used to somebody pumping that hand So they're not sure if they're supposed to go forward stop pause. What what's going on? So you want to keep your hand as low and as quiet and as smooth as possible Okay, so you've got your eye on the black cow that we want to cut One of the other things that we're going to say is you're going to keep your eyes Forward and looking around in case the cow what we're talking about Doesn't feel good doesn't act good once it gets to the top Then we're going to make sure that we cut a cow clean and in the middle of the pin So here we go Okay, you've got your cow spotted it's a little black cow coming to the outside and right here You have your horse in pretty good position. She's facing the cow You're looking at the cow all this is look really good now And right now is when you really need to start making your move to go forward and to separate this cow from the rest of the cows Right here. You start waving your hand That one little move that you made with your hand causes you To let this cow get away from you this cow now because of the way you were facing it before Should be walking away and instead it's walking across the front of you You had a perfect opportunity to make this cow actually step away from you and look Towards the judge's stands and away from the herd and as it is because you wave your hand instead of Being very steady and and making this cow walk away from you. You've let her come across the pin So now we have a tangled cut And I think this cut could have been a beautiful clean cut in the middle of the pin And I think right now you're costing yourself a point Or just in run contents instead of having a check plus cut or a check cut You're going to have a check minus cut or a minus cut because of this cut Okay, and it worked out very good But again, it's not a great cut I'm going to stop it again the first turn You're leaning with your body instead of using your feet to get across the cow So again, it's very distracting for a horse and it's not a pretty picture as you want it to be Very good. Keep your upper body still use your feet. Don't turn your horse with your body Let the cow turn your horse and you keep riding across Better Got control of the cow and nice legal quit in the middle of the pin You put the cow back to the middle of the pin before you quit it very good Right here stop we want to find your cow Good make sure you know where you're going and what you're doing before you start forward And we've got another black cow that we want to cut And again, you really want to make sure you walk forward walk forward to your cow Walk forward to your cut separate your cow from the other cows Again, you want to cross your cut instead of straight to the cow. It worked out This cow is a good cow Little short to the right a little long to the left All the way get there better Good stop that cow with your feet There you go better Nice quit about your cow back to the middle of the pin again and that was really good Okay, you got to finish this run nice and strong Again, we're we're looking at a A decent run a nice run your horse looks good There's some things that you could do to make this run even better And the two main things is you cut that clean that cow clean dead center of the pin and you create the separation yourself Here we go. We've got 15 seconds on the clock. We need to finish strong Need to be aggressive right here Up into the outside nice. There we go. There's the cut we're looking for Good Little short this way again. There we go better Good the buzzer went off so Good your horse is good Everything about that run we have a lot of positives But we could have made this run even better Had you've been stronger on those cuts and a little bit more accurate with your feet