 Welcome to the 2016 Lucas Oil and CHA Superstakes. We had a big day of finals today and I'm here with the winner of the amateur final, or one of the winners I should say, Michael Townsend, who scored a 2-17 on Faith in My Cat. Congratulations Michael. Thank you very much. Appreciate it. So how does it feel to have a major title under your belt? It feels pretty great because they don't come easy and it's been 16, 17 years since I've been doing this and it's just a dream really to come down and have a run come together and have several good runs and have my trainer and all the people that have helped me over the years through some of the very not so good times of being a true amateur. So it's just been great to share it with them and have it come true. You took a long break from showing yourself and you've just come back with Flair because you've had a lot of success. Tell us about it. I guess it's a combination of I've got twin 13-year-old boys and we kind of dropped out for about 10 years just because you can't do everything and the combination we've been raising horses for years and we've had these two smoothest of cats out of a horse we call Faith and her mate. She's had some really nice horses before and another horse called Faith and my cat with a C and he's won over 550,000 so these two are special and their integrity has been just unbelievable, they're responsible, they're honest and so we said you know I should go platoon with Tommy so he shows them in the open and I've been shown in the amateur and they're just as good for me as they are for him and it's just worked out so we decided let's go show. We'll talk us through your run today. Well we had a plan so I had a good draw so we were fourth in the herd. We had several cows, we said let's find whichever one's easiest to get to, we can cut. That didn't work out, our cow we wanted was on the back fence so we pushed it all the way around the outside, a nice white cow. It was a great cow, it made the horse work really hard, it pushed on us pretty hard, we almost flushed cattle at the end. It was hard to get off that cow and that guy we did, turned around, had a black mod around the outside, nice and easy to get to. Just chipped it off and put down and it was a good cow and so we decided let's just say to the buzzer and it was a great cow and the horse did great and it just was a good run. Now as we mentioned you're a co-winner which I mean there's usually an equal placing somewhere in the final but not so often with first place, how did it feel when Reagan Plendale who came out and equaled your score, what were you thinking at that point? I really didn't think the 217 would probably last because you know I was pretty early but I know Reagan, Reagan we cut together at Carthus, we were at our buckhole. You know she's a great showman, she really is, she's got a great horse who was actually on one of Tommy and Marvin's Marys so I knew it was a great horse, she deserved it. I mean it was a great nice super clean run and she just does a great job every time she goes. So to walk up there and be able to share it with her, you bet all day I said let's do this all year you know. Well for the rest of the day at least because you've got another final with the same horse in the unlimited. Right the unlimited final is next and we marked in the first go 215 to get back to both of them so while we drew up I think we're like 11th in the first herd, a little bit deep in the herd but this horse is the kind that you can go cut some pretty aggressive cows and it works better, he really brightens up and he stops so hard and he's so gritty that you know hopefully we'll be able to get up in the top group again hopefully. Well good luck with that and congratulations for this title. Very good I would say one other thing though just that I've been with Tommy and Marvin for like 16 years and as an amateur you don't you don't achieve anything without a great trainer and someone who really takes care of you and it's just been so much fun. He's kept a fun force for 16 years and it's so great to share it with him to actually go down there, put a great run together, you know put a plan in place and have him there to see it really work well. I'm sure he'll really appreciate that recognition. Yeah well he's kept us in it be honest with you when you trust somebody and he's honest as he is and he's a good friend you know makes it fun.