 Welcome to the 2017 NCHA Lucas Loss Superstakes. I'm here with Holly Francois, the winner of the limited non-pro four-year-old final. She rode smart dual cat and scored a two seventeen and a half. Congratulations to your Holly. Thank you, thank you. How does it feel when you to be described as a NCHA major champion? That's usually my husband's calling, not mine. It feels amazing. I'm just so thankful to be here tonight and amongst the people that I was showing with tonight and to make the non-pro finals. Richard Beth Carney gave us opportunity to buy this horse. It was actually a horse we had in training for them as a three-year-old and shown at the Futurity and we've just loved him and they decided to make a change and we bought him right before the show. So this has been a sweet victory. Wow you really haven't had too much time to gel but obviously you did. No we did. He's you know I think a little less pressure in the non-pro and I'm surely not asking him like he just to me he's just an autopilot out there just takes care of me and I never feel like he's not totally hooked to that cow or in the right spot. As long as I'm doing my job he's there hundred percent. Now you were at third last out and it was pretty wide open because at that point I think the top score was like a two fifteen. So what was your game plan coming into it? Tonight I just I just wanted to go in and make my cuts clean and really try to prepare for tomorrow night. I didn't want to have a big rack or put him in a really bad position you know I just wanted to try to stay clean and then as the run was building my help Bo and Lee just were like come on on that last cow drive him up there and I did and now I really felt tonight what they've been telling me like get him way up you know push cow way up and kick him across there and he just felt amazing. Is it satisfying when you get given those instructions and you actually make it happen? Yes because that doesn't happen very often. They were fussing at me last night because I wasn't using my feet enough and so it was yeah it was awesome it was an amazing feeling yeah. Now and you did have a fertility champion you're up against Jodie McLaughlin had her horse straight after yours so did that make you nervous after you'd finished your run? No I was so thankful for I didn't where I ended up at that point I was just tickled when I saw my score and and glad that I presented him well and I think my husband was proud of me and that means a lot so I was now I was just just absolutely thrilled and I couldn't do it without my daughter's support I knew her eyes were beaming when I came out and it was awesome. You got the biggest whoops of the night? Oh I did oh good I didn't hear anything. When your husband is a professional trainer Lee Francois what kind of advice do you take from him when you go out and compete? Well I haven't been showing much I have a three-year-old and I have a seven-year-old that I've been showing on the weekend so I get to show a little bit but our main focus is our business and the open horses and customer horses so I'm not I've kind of been not in tune with his his coaching about showing in a while just because I haven't had an aged-fin horse and but it's it's been good I don't watch cows with them I get my horse ready and I think that that helps because I need to be riding to be prepared and be warmed up to and I guess I'm so used to getting horses ready that's just my comfort zone so I've got great help though between Beau and Lee and they take really good care sometimes Lee gets really quiet because I think he's completely freaked out the choices I'm making maybe but Beau keeps talking to me and Clay out front and Jamie I have awesome help so. Okay and finally you've got tomorrow night and what are your plans for the horses? Yes tomorrow night I'm first out in the non-pro so I'm just gonna try to have another clean run and head to the BI after this so. Best of luck with that it's time for your presentation thank you Holly. Thank you so much.