 Hey folks I'm here with the 5,000 novice non-pro world champion Ron Davis who rode Kitt's little headliner. Congratulations to you Ron. Thank you. Tell us what does this win mean to you? Oh it means a lot to me. I raised him. I had his mama so I kind of enjoyed it. What do you like about this horse? Oh he's gotten a lot stronger as the year went on. He's always real greedy. He'll never give up on me. Okay and tell us about your go arounds here at the World Finals. I didn't get along real good here. I didn't get along real good the first round and the second round I got tangled up on a cut a little bit so I didn't do real well. Not like I'd hope but we were here. Okay so you had a solid lead coming in, $10,000. What was your game plan with that kind of space? Well that's why I wanted that kind of space. You just don't have to worry about getting through runs here. It can be real difficult sometimes to get through these runs. They added pressure of actually being at the World Finals. Well that and if you can be caught it's real difficult you know mentally you're stressed you know you can be caught so that's in the back of your mind. The leader's always the one that's target on your back so. Harder to stay ahead do you think sometimes than catch up? It's yes it's a lot harder to stay out front than it is to catch whoever's there. It is psychologically I wonder why that is but you obviously maintained it. It's because when you're the leader everybody's aiming for you. Nobody's aiming for that second place for us. They're always aiming for the leader. And how do you find competing in the water arena? Oh it was okay. I didn't like it as well as is the main pin but it wasn't bad. And how satisfying is it to know that this was a product of you? You know you've done everything with it, bred it, raised it. Tell us about the year on the road. How hard easy was it any stories that stand out? Well there really aren't any stories that stand out. It was just a real consistent horse so it wasn't anything real spectacular throughout the year but it was just a lot of runs and a lot of miles. Did you have to go to as many shows as you thought or? Yeah I pretty much had it planned out. I showed him 120 times counting the finals. So how strategic do you find you have to be in terms of which shows you go to and you know how the horse handles it all? Well you just you're looking at how far away you are from home, what the added money is, what the entries are going to be, what your odds of winning are. You take that all into consideration then you take the cows and the ground and everything else and what pins your horse works better in. So you've won at least more than $45,000 for the year. Does that come close to covering your costs? Well it helps but it doesn't cover the on-the-road costs. It does real good on that but the home expenses don't get covered because you're not working, you're not home. What do you do? Oh I do a little bit everything. So can you ever do it on the road or you have to really be at home? I have to be at home. So that that makes it a bit tougher and yet you still manage to make the success. Well yeah you just got to decide what you're going to do and do it and figure out how to handle all the rest of it later. So why does it make it what is it about cutting that you love? Why is this all worth it? I've been doing it a long time and to me it's the fun of sport balling. I mean it's you against the cows. You know it's not you against the other competitor. And what are the plans for next year then? Try and pay for this year. Good plan. Thank you for joining us. Thank you ma'am.