 It was your hope of enjoying watching the live cast of the 2018 Leaker Soil Superstates. Joining me now is the newly crowned unlimited amateur classic champion, Gary Barker. It was a great run today and a great score. How does it feel to be a first time champion in the Will Rogers? Oh, it feels great. I'm glad I finally did it once. How long have you been cutting, Gary? Probably 15 to 20 years, nearly. So it must be fairly satisfying then having it happen and having it happen so competitively. Oh, yes. Yeah, that was great. And on a horse that I've raced, that adds to it. Yeah, that's a really special touch, I would imagine, because you've got really ticked off two boxes there. Oh, yes, definitely. Okay, tell us about a smooth new cat. I'm sorry. Well, he's by Smooth as a Cat. I was a special new baby. Matt Gange originally trained him. He'd made the finals at Futurity, Superstates, Derby, had a lot of success, and then I started showing him something last year and had a lot of fun with him. Okay, six-year-old? Six-year-old, yes. Okay, now when you were coming in, you were in the first set. You had a 221 to beat, so that's a pretty good ask. What was your strategy? Oh, just go down and try and cut clean and just show my horse the best I could. Worked out for you. Did you take some roost there to get that 224? Well, with that horse, the more you use him, the better he gets. That's what makes him a lot of fun to ride. You let him have his head a little bit? Oh, yeah. Okay, now in the second set, I got very competitive. There was a 223 and a 223.5. How were you feeling at that point? Well, to be honest, I wasn't in here. So I didn't know until I got through, I was over at the other building in a meeting, and when I got through, then my wife called me and told me that I'd won. So perhaps that's a strategy to calm the nerves as you're waiting it out. Just don't watch. Yeah, that's the best thing. Okay, now you've also been a fatuity champion in terms of the horse that you bred, second spot a couple of years ago when you won with Matt Gaines. How does that differ? What was that feeling like? Well, that to me was actually more special. I mean, that's what she's strived for, to raise and own an open fatuity champion. So I don't think anything will top that. Okay. And tonight's run, do you remember much of it, like your cow choice and, you know, how it felt as you went through that run? Oh, yes. Red baldy first, and then sort of a gray brownish mott, and then a red one with a black face. Lloyd picked my cows. He's a great cow picker, and we started up through trying to get the gray one first, and he's like, no, the red baldy's up on top, go with it. So, you know, I just listened to my help, which, you know, they're great. Jamie and Clay and then Casey. You trust your advice? Oh, yes. Advises? Oh, yes, definitely. They never tell me wrong. Okay. What's next for you in the Superstates? I'm through. I'm going home. You can enjoy yourself and celebrate now. Yes, yes. Well, congratulations. Thanks for joining us. Thank you very much.