 It's the first final of the 2017 NCHA Super Stakes and I'm here with the winner of the limited open classic, Hayden Upton, who rode Superfly and scored a 222. Congratulations to you Hayden. Thank you, appreciate it. A super run on Superfly, how does it feel right now to be you in this position? Yeah, it feels good. It feels like a while coming but it feels like all the pieces that I've been trying to put together all got put together tonight so it's really good. Well you've been knocking on the door for a while, there's been a few finals opportunities and now you get to make good. I mean there's not many people who've won a title in the Will Rogers. Yeah no, I'm very grateful, it feels great. It feels really good. So the seven in the final, you were first out, tell us about your game plan. Honestly the biggest game plan tonight was just to cut better cattle for the horse. I've been, when I was telling them my help and I want to thank my help, they've been great. But I was telling them my help earlier this week that when these cattle are tough like this my eye is drawn to the type of cows you might cut on a three-year-old and I'm just not familiar enough or in this moment at this level in this class trying to win a final and my goal was to cut different cattle and that's what we did tonight and it shows why we should do that more often. So what would you say would be different about three-year-old cattle to cattle for older horses? Well just when you need to go mark 19s in the go-arounds as opposed to 16s and I haven't had that much experience on a five-year-old of this caliber and I've just been cutting the wrong cows. I told Jesse Lennox tonight I said man I'm more confused watching cows tonight than I've ever been because I kept getting drawn to the wrong type of cattle. I bet a lot of people will find that really helpful. Now I hear you also had a bit of a strange change of strategy with your shirt, tell us about that. Well I usually wear a blue shirt seems like so I wore a black shirt tonight and maybe black's the way to go. Sounds like it. Now tell us about the horse because you've had this horse all the way through? Yes, this horse belongs to Brett and Shay Johnson and I want to give a very special thanks to both of them for their support for the opportunity to ride, train etc. this horse and he's just taught me so much you know and it's been such a progression and I apologize to him for that the horse because it's like it just seems like he's like finally you caught up tonight thank you but yeah he's just a great horse. He's a big horse, he can move so cool. He's timing with the cow, he's gotten so much better this year he's quicker and he's just a pleasure to have. So I take it you're just going to continue to show this horse? You bet, yes ma'am. And what other horses have you got for this event, for the show? Well I've got some four year olds that I'm pretty excited about I just started riding some horses for Wendell and Barbara Reader and some Warbird dogs and I'm very excited about those and so yeah it's nice to, this is the first time I've ever come to this event and had more than one or two horses to ride so it's pretty exciting to know I've been down there a couple of times and we've still got the four year olds to go so. So can you describe your run to us at all, do you remember much of it? Yeah I wanted to start with, there was a grey slick neck cow and she was right on the back fence and I had a moment when I walked in there and Cory said she's on the back fence and I thought should I walk down there and dig her out but that was also part of just a learning process I think I've made the mistake in the past of not taking enough cattle up and not getting up out of the herd so I thought well if I go and dig this cow off the back fence it'll get a bunch of cattle up there and get her bump way up on top and that got my run started and then my second cow was good and then I turned around and the cow we probably thought was the most challenged was a low bridge red mott and she just finished my run. Well it was a convincing win because I think it was some seven points ahead of the second place go. Well I'm just pleased to be number one, I don't mind. You don't mind by how much as long as it's number one. So you come home with about four or a bit over four thousand taking your winnings to about 165 approximately. Feel good? Yeah, it feels great. Just to have, just to, you know, that's all good and well but just to have it feel like it's all coming together. Best of luck with the rest of your events. Thanks Hayden. Thank you.