 Well I'm here at the 2015 NCHA Ferturity and I'm with two Australian competitors who have put a lot of time, effort and money into coming over to the US to compete in the Ferturity and have both done extraordinarily well. Peter Schumack and Peter Dunn, congratulations and welcome. Thank you. Thank you. So firstly I'll begin by asking you what, why did you decide to get a horse, have it trained over here and come and compete over in the States? I think, well five years ago now I sent a filly over from Australia, sent it to Eddie Flynn which was by the horse that I had back home there and Eddie trained that Mary up for me and we were lucky enough to make the limited non-pro finals that year so that kind of, yeah kind of got the bug to show here at Fort Worth where the best of the cutters show so at that time we ended up buying another filly and Yealan came back two years later, Eddie trained her again for me, came back two years later and we were lucky enough to make the limited non-pro finals on her again so bit by the bug, went and bought another Yealan filly, got her started while I was here when the big ice storm was on, left with Eddie, two years later here we are again and yeah this time was lucky enough to get right through to the non-pro finals as well. So we're going to come back to this story of how you, you know, found this horse that you've just had a lot of success on but you have every time you've come over and competed you've made the finals and this time you were reserved limited non-pro, how does that feel? Yeah over the moon, yeah it's great, like you know to compete in here at Fort Worth is something that you know I've always wanted to do and yeah so to be able to come and climb on a horse that's really well trained like Eddie's done a super job like on all three of the horses I've had now, easy horses get on them, cut clean, you know do your job and the horses will take take care of the rest so I'm very very happy. It says a lot about you as a showman though to be so competitive over here when you're not here or you're riding. I'll show a lot at home so we just had a show only three weeks before I came over here so I went there and showed four times in the weekend just trying to do the things that we can do right you know good clean cuts and make sure you're quick clean and like I said if the horse is trained right hopefully they will do their job so yeah. So Peter Dunn how about you, why did you decide this year to have a horse trained and compete over here? Yeah I suppose we came over two years ago and saw Pete and Peter and I on the show and sort of thought we could do it and have a go just for the experience and bought a horse and sent it to Gerald Alexander for 12 months and then got tied up with Austin and sent it to him and you know just went on and on and never thinking that we'd probably get here but we did so you know everything's a bonus yeah. How did it feel being a finalist? Well finalist was good but the go-round was a bit nervous you know. Is it a daunting you know place to show? Oh once you get past the line you're right you know it's just the initial lead up to it or build up to it but yeah. So tell us about your horse and how you found it. Yeah we found it through Gerald Alexander. Actually it was a day we had to get on the plane he said there's a couple of horses if you want to buy one and we just went out and bought it. It's sort of he organised to pick it up and everything just fell in place yeah. When did you first get to ride it? I came over back last year for a couple of weeks and we had three or four rides on it and yeah just to see what we thought and whether you should continue. Yeah that's right yeah and to organise who it was going to go to and who Gerald thought who to send it to and he sort of he recommended Austin. So now should we always see you have a relationship with Eddie so what made you choose Austin? Well it was mainly Gerald's recommendation I suppose you know. He sort of places horses where he thinks will suit and what train will suit me and yeah just it all worked out perfect. So have you been to Alabama and ridden the horse there? Yeah we went down we came over about a week before and I flew down to Alabama and stayed there for about a week and rode her and travelled back with them. Yeah I like I love her and I probably ride her in the practice pin every second or third day and you know Austin rides her every other day or third day. Did you did you expect to you know come home with the finals jacket? No no I was thinking if I get through the go rounds you know cut clean like Pete said cut clean and show clean and hopefully the horse does the rest. So how about you Shuey do you think it's different to show here than anywhere else? I don't think so I you know it's your competitive back home in Australia showing at the moment that we've got a lot of really good non pros there and a lot of really good trainers there. Obviously the numbers here is it's just a numbers deal like if I was to say for example we've got ten you know really top-notch non pros at home there's a hundred here you know it's just it's just purely a numbers game and but it to me it doesn't matter if you lay down a nice neat correct run you do your things right it doesn't matter if it's a 72 73 in Sydney Australia or Fort Worth Texas it's still judged under the same rules and you know you've just got to go and and do your job and and hope the horse does theirs. So now the mayor that you got reserve on here tell us the story of how you found it because it wasn't kind of in cutting circles was it? Oh she's um I was really interested in a horse by Purdy Boy Flash a horse that Jack Wagner had bred. The year before I'd looked for a studcult buying couldn't really find one to take home to Australia that was would suit our like our industry back there with the camp drafting side of things as well I ended up buying another horse for stud horse came back and said to my wife look I'm going to go and buy a Purdy Boy Flash filly jumped on the internet found this filly and up in Oklahoma so two years ago Eddie had a lay day wasn't going to help anybody during the fertility in that particular day so he jumped in the truck and drove six hours and bought this little filly of Lewis Constanza in Oklahoma bought a home and yeah that's when the big ice storm hit there two years ago and Eddie was stuck in town I was stuck out of the ranch so by the time he got home I'd had four rides on her so yeah. So you've obviously had a lot of value to this horse now? Yeah I guess yeah. Yeah no she's a nice man really nice very happy with her. So what are your plans now are you what are you going to do with your horse? I don't know it's kind of up in the up in the air at the moment but I'd really like to keep her keep her and maybe come back over the you know the next 12 months show her the super stakes maybe the BI the Derby just got to convince my wife that she can do without me at home for a little bit of time but yeah hopefully but yeah you know I don't really want to sell her shit it's not like she owes me a lot of money so it would be good to be able to keep her and you know maybe maybe get an embryo out of her this year or early next year and yeah so. How about you Peter what are your plans now? Yeah we'll hopefully sell our filly here at the show and then whether we get into another one or you know. Will you do it again? Oh I think I'd like to yeah you know maybe not next year maybe the year after yeah one day we'll probably come back. So what advice would you have to somebody who's in Australia or Brazil or Canada or somewhere and thinking about you know competing here what would you say what have you learned about this process? Oh well you know my feeling is that you've got to find a trainer that you trust you believe in their program you know you can see the results that they've had with their previous non-pro riders and such yeah and then you've got to trust in what they're telling you you know where your horse is up to is it going to suit you and you've just got to roll with that when you're on the other side of the world you can't do anything but trust that you're a trainer so obviously very important to find somebody that's you know it's got your best interest at heart as well. How about you Peter any any advice? Yeah no that's about it yeah you've just got to trust them and hopefully you know if you get an established trainer well you know they've got a reputation and that's why they've got a reputation so. And I mean I know you're saying really the standard is the same there's just it's a numbers game but there's obviously something about some excitement or something that you like to be over here to compete can you describe what it is? I don't know I guess for me it's I remember Sean Fleening in an interview when he won the Derby he said when we're kids we dream of showing that in the arena It's kind of the ultimate. What about you Peter? It's like you know it's like the Melbourne Copper cutting so you know you've got to go once yeah. And you guys are returning home victorious couldn't get better could it? That's right you know we've done well and you know could have gone the other way but yeah if you don't have to go well you'll never know. And finally you know it's a tricky time because the exchange rate no matter which country you're from you know the US dollar is pretty strong is there is there any advice or you just got to you just got to take that hurt if you're going to take this on? Green and Barrett. Just Green and Barrett suck it up. It'll leverage it. Yeah and like you've done well with your horses so hopefully that'll you know take your money home yeah you know the exchange rate might be the other way and you pick it up that's right. Well thanks very much guys really appreciate it and best of luck for future years and what you're going to continue to do with these horses. Thank you no worries.