 the open derby final of the 2008 metallic cat summer spectacular and the first to finish with the 228 was Lee Francois. Congratulations to you Lee. What a final. Thank you. Thank you. You know it's always a blessing to win something here. You know you got your family here with you. They go through the hard times too. Just feels good and it's great. You know to ride a great horse it's you know we grow up dreaming about these moments and kids and to have that kind of horse you know it just it makes all the hard times worth it just we're just blessed family. Yeah and I can tell it was the same for your wife because she was just you know distraught in a sense you know in a good way because she was so behind this this horse and this win and tell me this was a reserve futurity champion just last year. What does it mean to win on this horse here at the Summer Spectacular? Well it's great. You know you you you do good on the horse and you to come back and repeat that is it's always hard. It's a pressure and it's a struggle and and you know then you got to deal with the horse and I'm trying to get him back to that level again it's but it's you know it's just good horse rebounds I had some tough luck on him after the fraternity and it's just good to get him back 100%. Yeah for sure and tell us what your ride was like because that horse just looks like it won't let a cow beat it. Can you describe it for us and get your three cows? I really can't you know it's kind of blurry you know you know I mean I got to thank my health bowl and Jesse for the cow picking they did an amazing job as they always do and you know they pointed them out and I went and cut them and just you know let him fly. And how would you say the horse has developed what have you worked on since the fraternity? You know I just he had a quarter crack after the fraternity and that hindered us a lot so it was mainly just getting that healed up and I got to get Pete Mason props he did a great job getting that horse healed up and taking care of him so we got that fixed and now he's back 100%. And now three times down to the herd in one set how do you mentally prepare for that? It is a struggle I know Holly she was tired of putting up with me all day you know because he's just nervous and trying to figure out how to how to handle it but you know you just take it one run at a time one cow at a time. And of course we had the metallic cat incentive the added 100,000 for the highest score on a metallic cat you had one. Tell us what was your strategy with that horse? Well actually mine wasn't eligible. Because it didn't have a breeding? Right we didn't have the breeding this year we bred to him but it was a breed from last year so I didn't I wasn't too nervous about that and others just get them showed. And then your final horse coming out what was your plan there? Just same thing just well after I showed animal was after that it was just you know I was pretty relaxed and just tried to go have fun and cut some good cows. Okay what's the plans next to the animal? I don't know well I'm sure we'll be headed somewhere I'm not sure where of them he's feeling good as long as he's healthy we'll be going. Well the crowd loved it and it was a fabulous run thanks for thanks for being here. Thank you.