 week of the Lucas Oil Superstakes, the 2018 Superstakes. And tonight we had the limited open Derby decided that was taken out by Lance Cooper. Congratulations to you, Lance. Thank you. Well, what a great result. 223, how you feeling? Feeling awesome, it was a great run. Just thankful everybody come out and watch and just a good feeling. Now you were the first out and you set the bar with that 223, did you think it was a winner? Did you think it was gonna stick? Did it feel good? It felt good, but you never know being first. You just, there's 12 forces behind us and anybody can do it in this class. Mayor felt good and everything felt like it was a winning run, but you really don't know until it's all over. Okay, so describe your run to us. Put us there in the action. What did it feel like on each cow? Well, I showed the mayor twice already and I didn't make the semis in the open and so I made the limited. And she's been good all week. I just haven't showed as aggressive I feel like in the open and tonight Austin Shepherd just said come up and show like you normally do and that really helped me. And then I come up and showed really aggressive tonight and cows loved, cows were good and it just worked out. Which cows did you choose? Did your dad Michael Cooper help with that? Yes, my dad helps me choose my cows. Also Steve Olof and R.L. Chartier. Steve Olof is in my corner. He also settled in my cattle tonight. And my first cow was a black mott horn cow that was on my first cut and I auctioned off on her. I was trying to cut just like a gray brown top earlier and I auctioned off to that black horn cow and she was good. Now you rode Zen and Tonic just a few months ago in the limited non-pro faturity and won that title, shared it. That was the non-pro. Now you're in the open. Tell us about that. Yes, she was aired in the open. She's been good all year and so we decided in her to open and we really didn't know who was gonna show her and we didn't really know. So a lot of people asked me to show her and talk to dad about it. He says it's my choice. I can have an open rider show her or I can show her. And my dad's never showed her before and no one else has. And I was like, can I just show her since she's been good for me? And he said yes and so that's what happened. Okay, now correct me if I'm wrong. You have won about 190,000. Yes ma'am. Your horse has won about 100,000. Yes ma'am. Okay, a large chunk of that you've done together, correct? Yes ma'am, all of this year. How much of that this year? 100,000 this year on her. Wow, so tell us then, what makes this such a successful partnership? I don't know, she's just an unbelievable mare. She goes out there and does her best every time. She's so smart about a cow and she just loves to cut. I couldn't say anything better about her. Are we gonna be seeing more of you in the open? I don't know about that. I show tomorrow in the non-pro, so hopefully it's fun. But it was just a practice run really for the non-pro. A bit more pressure in the open? A lot more pressure in the open. A lot better people. A lot more, just a lot more, I don't know, just harder I guess. Okay, now we've mentioned dad. We've got to mention mom because you can't do this without your mom. And she's been working hard on the other side of this camera, organizing the webcast. What's your message to her? Well, my mom and Mark Michaels put a photo up on me tonight that I really didn't know what, I don't even know what they put a photo up and it was like a picture from two years ago in the youth finals and it was pretty, I was pretty, I don't know, I didn't know what to say about it. Well, you felt a bit uncomfortable? Yeah, a little bit. Okay, but I'm sure you got a message you love for your mom right now, don't you? Oh, yes. Okay, thank you very much. And it will be fun watching you continue to show this horse. One more question actually, how has this horse developed since the fertility in the time that you've had it? Oh, she's just gotten smarter every time I show her, really, she gets better after every run. She keeps on getting smarter, keeps on getting smarter and I can't say enough about that, Mary, she's been so good for me all year. All right, we're gonna continue to enjoy watching you together. Thanks very much, Lance. Thank you, thank you. Okay, Lance Cooper. Tomorrow we're gonna have the non-pro open derby go rounds so stay watching, that's it for tonight, folks, but tune in tomorrow morning on the live CHC webcast. Goodnight.