 Welcome to the 2017 NCAA World Finals. I'm here with the winner of the $35,000 on pro, Brian Pierce, who rode Raid. Congratulations to you, Brian. Thanks very much. It's been a ton of fun. I'll tell you that. Tell us about the win, what it means to you. Well, it's kind of the culmination of a long year. Maybe we didn't haul a ridiculous amount, but it still was a lot of time on the road, which was all fun. Just meeting a lot of great people and doing a lot of fun stuff, and of course that doesn't always add up to a big win, but in this case it did, so very happy for that. You may not know, my wife shows it as well, so being able to show with her is kind of icing on the cake. Now, you're from Canada. Does that mean you had a lot of time? I mean, it's a little bit harder because you've got to go that much further to go to the shows. How much time away from home did you have, and how do you juggle that? Right. Well, it's not that bad, actually. We're in the U.S. about six months of the year, and a lot of that we're showing, so we kind of take our time a little bit ahead of the show and after the show to either be in the Phoenix area where our trainer, Mike Wood, is, or just enjoy whatever show we're at from California, Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico. They're just awesome places to be and spend some time, so we tried to smell the roses along the way. Tell me, what are some of the highlights of the year that really stand out to you? Right. Well, it seems like every place we've been, every location there is a show, it's just been exceptional. We get to see a part of the U.S. we probably wouldn't have saw otherwise. Many are small towns like Ignacio, Colorado, but they put on such great shows, and then we make some side trips and go to Durango and check out some of the restaurants and places to see, so it's just been so fun doing that. And North America is such a great place to do some traveling in. It's so pretty. No state's the same, you know, even though there's some similarities. So, you know, we checked out some craft beer in a few places and things like that, so. Did you take time off work or could you do work on the road? I could probably do some work on the road, but I've got the good fortune of retiring a couple years ago. So now my wife and I can kind of, you know, jump in with both feet and do this essentially as much as we want to do. Okay, now you've got an interesting story because you're actually like a baby in terms of cutting experience and you've already won a world title, which is very impressive. Tell us about your journey and how long ago you started and you know how it's developed for you. Yeah, sure. Well, we back in Canada had bought a few cutting horses and at that time we didn't do a lot of showing. We did some cutting at the ranch and went to some club shows, things like that. And then, I guess as I saw that retirement was on the horizon, we knew we wanted to do this a little more. So we checked out Mike Wood in the Scottsdale area and we thought, you know, that's kind of a nice place in the world. It's warm, a lot of the months and like, you know, to be honest, where we're from. So we landed there and that's just been exceptional for us. Mike and Roper Curtis, you know, the management is so awesome, all the people we've met. And then I guess what comes with that is such awesome help at the barn, at the shows, in the ring. Tell us about your horse, Raid. Well, you know, I, to be honest, don't know a lot about his heritage and breeding, but he is just such a gentleman to work with. He's awesome. And I got the best horse in the world on my jacket, because it's tough to say. You've obviously got a real bond with this horse. He couldn't be better. Like, zero complaints. He's been healthy, strong. He's still a horse. You're a tame. Exactly. Yeah. Well, congratulations. That's a great effort. Thanks very much.