 everyone. Thank you for watching the 2018 Lucas Oil Superstakes. Joining me now is the newly crowned limited open classic champion, Brent Ericsson. Do you like the sound of that? Yeah, you bet. Love it. How does it feel to be you right now? Feels good. It feels good. It's great. Okay, tell us about your run. What was your strategy coming into the event? My strategy was just to try and be as clean as I possibly can. You know, we knew we had a nice draw and got great help. Pick some good cows and just trying to be clean. Yes, second out. Describe the three cows that you chose and how that went for you. The first one, just a black dirty back that the guys really liked a lot and it was just in the right spot. It was walking away in the first cut and we really liked the yellow. The second cow is pretty yellow, a slick yellow cow that we loved and she was, you know, showed that she was going to be good there on the first horse and we went and cut her. And then the third cow was a little red baldy that didn't act very good when I went to cut her, but luckily my buddy Grant got me cleared up and it ended up being really good. Okay, now there were only eight competitors in the final. Is that challenging when it's a smaller herd like that? Tell us how you approach that. Well, they put five cows in per cutter, so I don't know. I don't, I didn't really look at that as being a challenge. It's just that you're in there. It is what it is. There's eight horses, there's eight riders and you just go do your job. Okay, now you have a massive $600,000 in earnings. This is though your first major title in the Will Rogers, so what does this mean to you? Oh, yeah, it means a lot. I mean, this is, you know, everybody loves coming here and it means a lot. It means a lot. I've had some success in some semi-finals and stuff like that, but to make it and to win it is a big deal. It means a lot. What is it like to actually cut in this arena? Is it something that you like doing once you've got nerves controlled? Yeah, no, it's a great pan. It's fun to show in. You know, it's just, it's the mystique of it. You know, everybody that's been here and done it and it's a lot of fun. Okay, now your horse reified. Tell us about it. Yeah, it's just a little dual-ray gilding that Dave Stewart trained. Miss Debbie Day bought him late, early late three-year-old year and we battled some EPM with him and it's four-year-old year and kind of had some hard luck and he's just now starting to kind of come around and come back to his old self, so it's pretty exciting. Well, you've got a couple of years really of showing this horse now still in the five and six, so as you said, some exciting potential there. Very exciting about it. Yeah, he's really starting to come back into his own and we're pretty excited about it. Okay, good luck with that and thank you. Great, great win there. Thank you very much. Appreciate it. Okay, Brent Erickson, everyone. That wraps it up for today. Join us again tomorrow morning for a full day of cutting coverage on the CHC live webcast. Good night.