 This is a metallic cat stud out of Marauded Slycat. This is the other one I'm going to show with the fraternity. Kevin Knight, which is my father-in-law and Jeremy Barwick on this horse. He started off a little sluggish yesterday at the pre-work. Not bad but just a little bit sluggish like I said. I tried to kind of just keep it confidence-building and just work the cow. Hopefully he'll get a little sharper today. He kind of has that tendency a little bit anyway. I find some of these studs a little more laid back and things like that and they through the summer they tend to slow down and get a little bit too nonchalant. He's kind of perked back up now that the weather's cooled off and I tried to not overdo anything during the summer. I felt like I had him pretty trained by June or so. I'm not saying all the way trained but he definitely knew what the job was and I kind of just tried to back off through the derby and that sort of stuff and now it's as it's cooled off he's kind of got a little more spark back to him it seems. This is kind of my favorite time of year working horses getting ready for the charity our most exciting show. The weather's nice and cool and you know everybody's pretty excited but RL and I tend to work together a lot particularly this time of year but I think that's always important to watch other people and learn from them. You can't totally change what you do based on what anybody else is doing but you can always you can always pick up something that you need to do a little better and then integrate it slowly into your program. Used to and before I'd trained a lot of horses I would go to a show and see what somebody done in the practice pin and think that was really good. I'd go home and think I had to get that done on Monday and that's not a very good idea you have to if you're gonna make some changes it's important to be aware of it but do it slowly without confusing your horse, confusing yourself and things like that and you just kind of learn those things as you as you go. This cow doesn't have a hold real strong just kind of go back and forth a little bit try to keep him kind of thinking this horse doesn't necessarily zip around quite as much as I really like but I'm trying to he's got a lot of good things and I'm trying to compromise again I guess if you will. Some of the guys that are really really good at this like Lloyd and Austin they're able to do well on just about whatever everybody kind of has their certain horses type of style that fits them better that's something that I've struggled with I've tended to be able to do pretty well on a horse that really fits me but then maybe not as well on one that that doesn't so I'm trying to be better about that hopefully and just pick my spots to when the cow allows for it to kind of quicken this horse up a little bit he's always been really smart about a cow that was why he got solid early and I got his feet tangled there for some reason hopefully this next cow will get a hold a little stronger because that cow like that is kind of boring for me to work you got to do it sometimes but it doesn't seem real fun hopefully this cow can wake him up just a little more you know before I had hauled if I was getting if I was working that morning to go show in Fort Worth I thought I had to get an absolute perfect work otherwise I wasn't gonna do any good at all and I put a lot of stress on that and beat my head against the wall quite a bit but after hauling you you end up realizing that you're gonna you're gonna go to the herd quite a few times where you maybe don't didn't feel that prepared or you know more often than not when I was hauling I just worked the flag before I showed and you what you realize is that you can you can still get showed without having a perfect work you can make the most of the situation that you know as long as you're aware of what your horses strengths and weaknesses are and at the end of the day if you're showing a good horse it's really about what cows you cut and how you get tapped off and so it's made the it's made the preparation easier for me I think this horse has a good look on a cow he's better on a cow that's out away from him kind of so be my job to try and cut cows like that when I go show that's easier said than done sometimes but just do the best you can he's feeling good right there getting smart right there right a really good I'm gonna look for a spot now whenever if he's not being very good I might work one cow or two cows and then have somebody walk them around or time up to the fence and then I come back and do it again and maybe again but try not to ever getting too hot and too sweaty I feel like if you do that too much they they tend to get slower and number so I just try to yeah just try not to get him too hot whereas like the Baymare I was on earlier it certainly doesn't hurt her to get a little bit warmed up and and stay that way for a while but on horse like this I don't think that's the right approach