 Joining me at the CHTO booth is Cody Porterfield, the 2018 limited Open for Trudy winner. Cody Road cat getter and scored a 2-23. Great effort there congrats to you. Thank you very much. So this is actually your second win of this actual title. Yes ma'am. 2015? Yes ma'am. So how does this one feel? How does it compare? Oh it feels great. I mean it feels real good. They always feel good. They don't ever you know they don't ever diminish do they? Right. In terms of how they feel. So what was it that you would say has changed about you as a trainer in the past three years since that win in 2015? Well I think it definitely my getting the show more and I've got a little more under my belt since then so I have a little more confidence going down there. When I first won it I hadn't showed very much so that was we actually watched the video not too long ago and it was two totally different runs and so I think mainly that even though it's still it's still hard to go down there and show but doing it more now I think helped you know having the having the more what would you call it more experience. More experience yeah definitely more experience helped. Yeah yeah and your horse cut getter how has how has it developed over this past year in its three-year-old year? You know I've always liked her. Jack's center to me Jake Murray had her as a two-year-old and I got her and and I've always kind of liked her from the get-go. She's always felt smart about a cow to me and and and just maybe not the easiest to train but always no matter what went back to the cow so so I've always liked that about her. And in what way notice mentally or physically or just because the young horses? Probably you know she's she's so smart about a cow so she kind of always wanted to do it her way in a sense and so trying to get the little control that and style that we want on her and keep that cow in her is probably the hardest part but no matter what I did throughout the year she always come back and went right back to to the cow so I think that was very important. So talk about the challenge of training a horse for the faturity about trying to get you know this young horse to physically get to the place where they need to to be able to confidently you know block that cow and to mentally get get to that place when they're still pretty young and you know to have it on your timetable. Well I think it's definitely you use the word there of confidence and and I think a lot of it is confidence and and having one feeling good and healthy and and strong and and sound. I think that as long as they're confident I think you can do a lot with the horse but but I think you have to have them horses confident and trained enough to where they can get through the hard situations in there because they are going to be thrown to you and and mainly just try to advance and try to have as less penalties as you can have throughout each go-round is kind of the goal and and I think that comes with a more trained confident horse. Okay now you've had I guess a big year in many ways because you've purchased your own place. Yes ma'am. Well you started out was it started out leasing John Mitchell's place and now you actually own it don't you. Yes ma'am. So talk us through that and talk us through how that changes your I guess your own mind space when you're when you're a trainer because you've got your own place but is it more pressure or is it less pressure because you're the boss now you're calling all the shots and is that well does that change it up. There is both sides really and there's there's a lot of pressure on you know that we have to make the payments and keep it running so we have to win and do good but also the sense of being able to wake up and know that I don't have to leave and I can the the comfort of that is is by far been the most unbelievable thing I felt it's just for everybody there I mean we we can do anything I want so it that helps. And do you have more room you can take on horses or because you've got your own place do people say oh wow let's now send Cody a horse how to kind of impact us it has. I think so you know before when I was leasing and I got the lease from great people and some great places but but it does you know you only have a certain amount of space that you can and and here we can grow to the number that I want to be at you know and that I'm comfortable with so so it does that does help and and too I think it gives our owners more of a mind frame of stability you know that they know I'm gonna be there and and I'm not going anywhere so. I guess just family wise too because now you you've got a daughter that's probably gonna grow you just feel more established. Oh definitely you know plant your roots so to speak. Definitely definitely. And take us through your kind of journey you know where you started in the sport. Well actually in 2006 I found my first cutting horse and Georgia Welch was the first one that put me on a cutting horse. I didn't even know what it was. She we got together for the all-around high school rodeos and I was very competitive and in the other events and I had a buddy that that roped and rode all rust stock and he cut and I didn't even know what cutting was. Well anyways we got hooked up with Georgia and next thing you know we was on the back of a cutting horse and I pretty much moved out there to Buster Welch's with Dawson Burns his grandson and and just loved it and and you know I was in and out of there for a while and rodeoed for a while and then I think 2011 I moved down here and went to work for Corey Pounds and and worked there for a good while and and then when I left I went to work for Terran Rice and I was with Terran until I believe 2013 and then he went to work for Center Ancient encouraged me to stay there at Carl and Shawnee Smith's and Jack's Barrow and that's what we did so and here we are. Now we're going to talk through your run you're going to critique it we'll grab that and and watch that but before we do that I just wanted to ask you overall what you what your goals in the sport are what what's your most important goal that you've got your eye on? Well you know a bunch of my heroes and are some of the best trainers in this deal I mean all these guys up here on this banner you know I look at all them guys as horsemen and they're they're the best but they're also great men and and I would love to to be looked at it's how I look at them because all them guys besides horse training if they didn't even have nothing to do with the horse you'd love them they're great people I thought it showed the other day we watched Hybrow CD sell and and to watch Austin Shepard you know his reaction to that I thought that was unbelievable because we all we all love horses and that's why we do this I I think that's probably the main thing is just of course winning but at the same time it's you know we all love horses and and I think if I could grow up to be like them or and have that reputation of being a winner and also just a great person would be be the top of my list well Katie I think you're well on your way to that and watch this space huh you might have your own DVD here before long that would be that would be a great spot to be in those are the best right there awesome okay well let's have a look at your run okay what are you thinking at this stage when you're entering the herd well this this first cow we cut was a brown braimer that we actually didn't talk much about we knew her and she acted good on a couple of cuts before and Boyd told me definitely cut that cow he he loved her and right here I thought oh boy I thought she's gonna be a little much but I thought this really got the run started great and and I felt like it got my mare tapped off to where we needed to be and I I knew when I quit this cow that she felt good and and and after that cow I knew that we had a good run started and here was a black moth that we we did talk about some and and Matt Miller and Jamie they they liked her a lot before we went down there and she acted good on my first cut and she just kind of shaped up right here and and this cow was awesome too and and I had a lot of work in time here I thought whenever whenever I worked this cow I knew we we definitely didn't need to screw it up because I had a lot of work in time and felt like the mare was pretty spot-on and that was a tough set of cows to both both sets of those finals were tough I felt like there were a lot of good horses and and those guys just really weren't allowed to get their horses shown and I thought that we we just cut the best three cows at night so do you do you kind of get worried when you have to spend a lot of time on a cow or do you just let the horse do you just follow them not on the cow like that and like that night my horse felt great you know right here when I turned around to cut this cow I knew she was in a good spot and I was a little worried I held on there for a little bit but my horse was kind of out of air and and I didn't want to overdo it but I knew I knew we had a pretty good run going so I didn't want to mess the opportunity to go ahead and take advantage of it but but I was really happy with my mare you look like you look like you felt triumphant with the little fist pump there I did I was I didn't know if it would win but I thought it was a good run and and I was just happy of that mare I I thought she really showed some good stuff that night so what are the plans for the semis well I I really hadn't changed my plans and ever run I mainly have the same plan I want to try to cut the best three cows that we have and and just be smooth and and try to be as have a cleaner run as I can and I think when you get to trying to force a big run it doesn't really work but I think if you do your homework and you your horse is trained and I think you then have to try to cut the three best cows and what happens happens as anybody knows anything can happen down here yeah yeah and and the man what are you going to do long-term for the rest of the we definitely plan on showing her the the I mean hopefully just keep going so yeah we hadn't really planned on where we're going next but but definitely keep going