 Hi everyone I'm with the winner of the 2016 NCHA 5000 novice world champion Tom Long he's from Nevada and he rode he's got to be good congratulations to you Tom. Thank you. Now this was a tight tussle coming into this this race essentially. You were in second tell us how you were feeling at the time. Well it was it was a race for quite quite a good while and coming here we there were three horses that could have got the job done and it was going to just how the chips fell was what was going to happen and I was fortunate enough that the first run to to have a good run Gavin who was leading it his little mare had just come back from being injured and wasn't really ready okay and she just didn't perform to to where she could okay well that gave me the the difference that day to go ahead and catch him okay the last day of the deal it's it's knotted up tight tight with three horses and by what happened the first day and I I was third the next day Gavin was second but the average is what made the difference on the on the whole the whole weekend Mike won the the show championship here okay but he ended up third to to man Gavin in the deal okay and it looks like your consistency paid out you had a two nineteen and a half and a two eighteen and a half so um that's probably got you over the line well it and it did you know and and that little horse is that way he's been that way all year for me you know he may not make the twenty five run but he will be right there knocking on the door and he doesn't he's a real real cow horse little guy and a guy and he doesn't make a mistake on a cow so that I think that's what carried him through this this deal here especially coming from my country we cut a lot of steers out there and they're a lot different than these little quicker heifers down here and being the fact that he reads a cow like a border collie I think that made that transition where he could stay and be consistent instead of you know if you make one mistake down there with the caliber of horses that were there you're going to be out of the cutting okay and he was able to be just head to head at all the time and that's what those guys were looking for you know a clean clean run and some physicalness was going to get you there and that's what he did so how was the whole year was it back and forth between the three of you Mike Wood and Gavin Jordan all year long all year long it would be and and Gavin has helped me all year okay and I am in his corner all year and he'd win one I'd win one he'd win one I'd win one or he'd just take off and be a genius and win for five or six days and really make me mad but he helped me all year long with this deal and and we knew coming here that it was going to be a shootout between the the deal and I guess you know if you're going to Super Bowl that's the way you want it to be you know so it's fascinating aspect of the sport that you do help each other and that even though he might have lost he can take a little bit of pride in the fact that you won because he was a small part of that and vice versa oh it he was he was fantastic this week especially in that last run because I drew deep in in that set and he was instrumental in finding the cattle that I needed to and he'd already made a lead and run okay but he was still trying his butt off for me to have a run that could beat him and I had good enough run I didn't beat him but I had a good enough run to make my average beat his okay so you got you got to take your hat off to guys like that and that that's the main thing that cutting is really about is the camaraderie that we have here because we try to make the other guy beat that's kind of crazy but you know why am I taking money out of my pocket well you've helped me so I'm going to help you you know and I don't know another sport really works that way quite honestly you know so tell us about your horse and how he got the name well he actually is the first colt be born by my stallion which his cat's got a diamond okay and he's out of a dual ray mare and when he hit the ground his next name's Benjamin okay and there was a movie that was on benjamin packer some darn thing where this guy looked mature as a baby but when this colt stood up I mean he just looked just like that stud and he looked like an older horse okay so my grandkids nicknamed him benjamin okay well he ended up with a different registered name and phyllis sorbet who owns the colt she didn't like the name and I didn't either okay so she got to talking and say hey we can change that which I didn't know you can before we show one for not very much money so she starts thinking about names and they're writing these all down and the whole deal and she's on the phone with me one day and and she said you know we've got to come up with a really good name and I said phyllis look this colt has got to be good he really does with this combination he's got to be good and she just stopped on the phone and says well that's his name and boom she just sent it in right then so that's where he came with he's got to be good so fulfilling destiny oh and you know what the nice part is that it worked you know it'd been terrible if it had been a dink you know I'm I'm riding on the horse well you wished he was got to be good but I think it's a great tribute to that little horse that he he stayed sound all year long and for that much time we were doubling on him and he just he just kept trucking kept going so he's going to get a little time off now he's earned it thank you very much for joining us Tom congratulations thank you very much for having us