 Thanks for watching the 2018 NCHS on the Spectacular. We're into the tail end of the event. We just wrapped up the limited non-pro derby. Joining me now is the newly crowned champion, Jim Van Guilder. Congratulations to Jim. Thank you very much. A 220, great run. How did it feel? It felt great. I haven't shown this horse before other than the go-round and he's easy to ride and a good horse. The cows were good. We had my help picked up great cows and so it was pretty easy actually. Well it's been a triumphant return to cutting feed. This is your second title this year. You shared the amateur classic title with Langston Patello at the Superstakes. This one you get to enjoy all on your own. What does it mean to you? Well it's always special when you can win a championship and I certainly didn't expect it. I've been very fortunate. I've had great help. Matt's worked with me a lot to help me get back to where I can be competitive and so I just feel very fortunate. Well and I think you win just over 9,000 for this. So that actually tips you past 1.2 million in total earnings. What does that mean to you? Well that's a nice total but to have to understand that was there most of that was won many many years ago and you know I'm much older I'm not the same I don't think I have the same abilities that I have been so I'm honored to be and that have that total but I think it's you know that's that's not that's not an example of where I'm at right now. Okay so you didn't quite make the non-pro finals for tomorrow. What did that mean for your strategy coming in tonight? Could you just go all out? Well I didn't really try to make the I was only entered in it limited. I did not enter the non-pro and I just had a slot in the limited just because Matt had three four-year-olds to show and in case he didn't get one of them back I didn't want to waste the horse and so I was hopeful that he would get all three back to to the semi-finals but unfortunately he didn't make it on Take It Easy which is the one I showed tonight so that was on Monday and then so Tuesday morning for the first time I rode this horse and worked a cow on him and then came in and showed him and it was fortunate enough to make it to the to the finals. For sure so take it easy how long you have this horse? We bought Take It Easy in January 2017 so we've had him the longest of any of the four-year-olds that we're showing now. Okay and what do you like about this horse? As you said you haven't shined him too much but obviously it's easy to get on and really do your best with it. Yeah I've only been honing three times but he's so easy to ride and and he's just smart. He's just getting smarter and smarter all the time. He was a little immature early on in the year but he's gotten to be he's just learned his job and he's easy to ride, goodness stops, he's smart on the cow so I mean that's about all you want. And what stood out about your run tonight? Well the thing that stands out in my mind about this run tonight was we only cut two cows but we had two really good cows the white cow that we finished up on was really special. I mean out of I think of all the cows that I've seen and I've said here all day long I think that's the best cow that was cut all day so. The kind of cow you're drawing about. Yeah exactly and that makes your run a lot easier. Okay so what are the plans now for this horse? Well we're going to continue to show it we're going to Idaho and to California to the we have some small 30 horses we're going to take and we're going to take our aging horses as well so we're going to continue to show this horse and the other four-year-olds that we have as well and then next year we'll he'll be five and we'll start showing him the five and six year old. Do it all over again. Yep all over again. Well thanks for joining us great job. Thank you very much, appreciate it. And that's Jim Van Gelder. Tomorrow it all culminates with the non-pro and open derby finals if you're not going to be here to watch in person make sure you watch on the live webcast. Good night.