 Hey folks we're here at the 2017 NCHA World Finals they're going on right now in fact it's the non-pro world championship and I'm here with the non-pro world champion April Whitman who rode Woody's baby congratulations to you April. Thank you. Now it's still going on but we know you're the winner because you were leading by quite a bit and you just had a fantastic run tell us about that. You know tonight I went in just knowing I had it sewed up and so I just wanted to enjoy it without any stress without any pressure and just show everybody what my horse was made of. I didn't quite get the cows that I wanted but he was still fabulous he gives me everything every step every run and you know even though it didn't work out exactly like I wanted it was so much fun it was a blast. How much more enjoyable is it to compete when there's no pressure? Oh it's it's really good. The finals have been a little stressful because I was catchable and you know Kylie is one heck of a great girl and a great competitor so yeah you have to look behind you a lot but you know it's competition and you know that going into it. So you came in 14,000 ahead as you say a good lead but catchable which was the go-round that you really think you cemented it and describe the run to us? That would be the third round and I had a really good run I had a little bit of a bobble on my first quit and so I only marked a 2.16 and a half but I still got a good check afterwards my family and all my close friends were trying to convince me that it was mathematically impossible to lose it but I was still just disbelieving it. I set out to win the world this year I let it all year everything has led up to this point but it's still so surreal I still can't believe that it's me I beat some of my biggest heroes and I've looked up to them my whole life I've done this since I was about nine years old so it was very hard to really cement it in my head that I've got this. So being on the road all year and obviously having a really good horse has that really made you a competitor of at a level that you weren't before? Absolutely I feel like I'm at the absolute best I've ever been in my life but I have a horse that I have 100% confidence in and as most people that ever do this know that is something that is crucial to be able to go and do your best and he and I just understand each other and so I'm able to do my job without worrying about him and he always is offering his best I don't have to ask him for that next gear he's already offering it to me. So tell us a little bit more about Woody's baby he's a bit of a showpony give us a description of what he does. He likes to show off he likes the attention I always say those two and a half minutes are my time the rest of the time is Spanky's time he likes to buck and play and jump in the air and kick out and he does it after I show as well and it's not trying to buck me off it's just plain he loves coming to these shows when I round the corner and he sees all of the lopers and everything that's when it starts and he truly loves this as much as I do and a lot of people say their horses love it but I can honestly say this one lives for it obviously it's two years of hauling I've never injected him I hardly ever have to work him I don't have to lopey much he just loves it. So tell us about your decision to hold this year and how the whole experience has been. I hauled years ago and I won the novice non-pro I'm playboy McCray in 2000 and it was a blast then I got into the aged events and I did that for a while and I just decided to change things up after I had my son I wanted to do something it was a little easier to take the family on trips to and last year I hauled him and I was reserved I set out that year to just make the top five when I got up the second it was a dream and I just went for it so then after that I thought you know I'm never going to be any better than I am right now he's still young and fit let's this is the year to do it so this time last year we made that decision let's go for it and try to win it okay so now that you have won it and you've obviously really gelled what does that mean for next year? He is probably I don't know exactly about 40 some thousand shy of that 400,000 mark in lifetime earnings I want to get him into that Hall of Fame. I'm going to be inducted in June of next year and so I hope that next year that I can get him in my other horse I've got him now and he's fresh and ready to go so I have two so I'm gonna go I don't know how hard but I am gonna go some next year I'm having too much fun to quit. Well congratulations you sound like you're just absolutely peaking and you've you know another great year ahead of you good luck with that. Thank you so much