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welcome back to another episode of catching up with Katie but this is not from our normal spot we are in Tulsa

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Oklahoma right now we're in the basement of the Airbnb um and we are going home in the morning and so we've been kind of

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going 100% the last couple days lots of stuff it's been so hot so we are a

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little tired so we're in our jammies and we're kind of going to make this video

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hores show themed um with questions that are about uh the nsba world that we were just at some from y'all some from

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Abigail and Nate and just things that are all about that so let's get into it

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I guess let's just do like a recap I guess of why we're here what we've done MH that type of

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thing yeah so we came here specifically for The Yearling sale which p and Finn

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sold in um we came here to see Denver cuz Denver while he's not showing is

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just here to ride and stay in training and you know there's lots of people that I only see at horse shows so that kind

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of stuff um and we had a great time doing it and now yeah now we're decompressing and we told ourselves and

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kind of put ourselves in a pickle where we had to film one of these and so now it's the end of the day after dinner of

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the last day we're like okay I mean we made Nate bring like the biggest

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suitcase in existence to be able to film this so couldn't really cancel it and we

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like have nothing for Monday if we don't so so we were kind of uh guilt tripped

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into doing this but I think it's still fine we've started so we're good um but yeah so I guess if there's any we didn't

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get rapid fire questions no rapid fire this time maybe maybe we'll just think

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of some like on the spot rapidly if you

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will this is a me question okay how do you know what horses will be best for

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what type of showing like just by looking at them like I know when we see like the bigger ones you're usually like

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oh English riding or Hunter under saddle um but in terms of like I guess

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the Western stuff how do you know just by looking at them like what they're going to be good at that's like a loaded

Western Horse

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question because like let's say The Yearling sale we saw so many come through like a hundred and something of

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them and you know as a yearling they can look really good as a yearling and then

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turn out to not be that great or they could look like an ugly duckling as a yearling and then turn out to be like

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the best thing ever as they mature yeah um so you kind of have to just do what what's in front of you at that point of

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like their confirmation like how they're built their movement like how they uh

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process things even as yearling so like their mentality so for the Western stuff

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the Western Pleasure and the Western allaround specifically um I'm I'm not scared of size so I'm okay with a bigger

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a bigger yearling or like a bigger horse um I'm taller so I always preferred bigger horses but you want this is just

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coming for me you want a really nice deep strong rear end like their Hawk

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drives up underneath them well but you don't want it to overpower their front end you want a balance between their

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rear end and their front end you want a nice light front leg um you don't want

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too short of a stride even in the western you want a good natural Cadence

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so like without someone helping them on their back you want them to be able to carry themselves well you want them to

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be able to handle you know like all those little babies that were in the sale like some of them were spooked and

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like so they should be it was so loud and stuff but some of them were like super chill and that you know

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might not be the best representation because some of them might have had more experience at shows than others but you

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know it kind of shows their good mindedness um and then you can get down to the nitty-gritty and look at you know

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past performance you can look at their actual structure and their feet and their you know how much bone they have

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and how well they keep weight in their topl line and there's like all those things so there's a lot of factors for

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western horse um I I would say you would want less motor meaning

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like like like Denver doesn't want to go fast yeah he prefers to go slow so like

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for that type of stuff it's like mhm speaking of that a lot of under the

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video you posted writing him okay um a lot of people I guess I just say a lot of

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people were confused uh I guess at why he was going so

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slow um so I guess if you wanted just kind of explain like what that was or like when you would be doing that on him

Western Pleasure

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so he's a Western Pleasure horse but we are very hopeful that he is going to do

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well in the western riding and the trail which for those things you do want a little more forward moving lope than you

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would in the Western Pleasure covering a little more ground which he has a longer

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stride but sometimes it looks

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mechanical or too slow in the midst of training so like he's not finished yet

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um but like what I was writing him in was like a Western Pleasure L and the whole basis of Western Pleasure is for

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it to be pleasurable for it to be slow for it to be um you know honestly

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Western Pleasure is such a good foundation for an all-around horse it teaches them how to hold their bodies

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some people don't like it and that's the thing and that's why I did that video with b a long time ago about

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like it's the same as a caner it is a three beat motion um they're not

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crippled because they're going that slow it's like a trained thing it's also bred into them to want to go slower to have

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that deeper Hawk and that you know be able to drive up underneath themselves that way and lift in the front end so

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it's not like it's not like he's wanting to go fast and you're making him slow down like he's being has a little bit of

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training into that like you first ride them but if you watch like a two-year-old or a three-year-old Western Pleasure horse being broke

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like their first ride versus a reer or a barrel horse Stark difference

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like Stark difference on the speed they want to go and the like it's bread into

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them for sure and there's going to be your oddballs that don't fall into that

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but like B is bread for barrels but he's just slow and

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La um what was so what was Annie bred

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for cuz just saying slow and lazy made me think of her she's she was bred for for the Western Pleasure and all around

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okay so it makes sense I guess yeah her mom was a pleasure horse and her dad was a hunter under saddle horse I was trying

Allaround

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to bre cuz her mom's kind of small and I wanted a an allrounder and I'm taller so

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I wanted one a little bit bigger and so I bred her to a larger stallion um it was in a bigger reip mayor because it

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was embryo transfer and so uh hot and blazing is her fire who was huge but he

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himself had Western breeding he has the same dad as code red so there was like

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Western breeding but like size was there and so any anyway that's that was the thought process when breeding Annie and

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so she' very much came out more Western mhm but so all around her is like you

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could do anything with them yes and like when I was growing up and showing

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because I'm tall and because I gravitated more towards the English stuff um all of my all-arounders were

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let me let me put it this way usually an all-arounder is one that started out in either

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Western Pleasure or English like the hunter saddle like they start off in one of the two CU those are the foundation

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classes where it's based on their movement um and so usually they start in one or the other and then if they're not

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a specialty horse like they're not good enough to only do that one job the rest of their life which is so

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they go on to do the allaround and so all of mine started off in the hunter

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under saddle they were bicker um and then went on to do to do the other stuff

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which is like horsemanship Showmanship equitation western riding all those

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things but you prefer Western Pleasure is that right I prefer the hunter under

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saddle okay but you're planning to do yeah I've never done pleas it's going to be a neat thing but like Penelope Daphne

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they're all going to be hun or saddle horses so that's not like the sparkly show clo that's like the that's the

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English the little suit the little suit and pants I like that better I think that

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it's at least for me I like watching that better I don't know why CU that's

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what Hank was in he watched the Congress last year yeah I guess because they're bigger it's just I don't know for some

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reason it look I gravitate towards that I just don't have a baby ready for that so it's like I'm you know I really like

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Denver and Denver's big he's 16 Hands and so that's why we we really think he's going to be amazing in the western

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riding and Trail but he can be crossed with like Trudy and Indie and and Sophie

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and my big Mayors and while like like Sophie's pretty big like some of her babies are kind of gangly because

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they're so tall Denver could bring in some like refinement to that and like beefiness to the Thor jeans she has so

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it's a good little like combo so do you want to give like a

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recap of kind of the sale or do you want to just yeah we can um you

Sale Recap

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know hate is G hate you know and so after the or a lot

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of people came to watch the sale I didn't expect that I didn't know that people were going to show up just to watch my horses which a lot of people

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were respectful I didn't see anyone being disrespectful I didn't either I I saw comments of people being mad that

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people showed up and I yeah I didn't personally see anyone being disrespectful if that happened it was not something we saw no um I just saw

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people like waited till it was over very respectfully waited through the entire

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thing for hours and then waited for us to get up before yeah so that's the only

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part I experienced people coming to the sale which was fine I totally you know I enjoy meeting people and so very

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respectful from what I saw and so pety and Finn um you know they didn't sell

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for what the internet thought they would and for and to be honest their com their combined price is

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lower than what I've sold weanlings for you know and each of them sold for less than what I turned down for them as

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weanlings so I was a little disappointed as well who wouldn't be if they're you

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know year L sold for less but if you watch the entire sale yes there was one that sold for 100 there was some that

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sold for 60 or 50 or whatever uh but as a whole the sale was lower there was

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there was definitely um a lot of really really nice babies selling for like six grand five grand I mean there was one

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that was super nice for like three grand you know so you never know and it's a gamble anytime you put one in this type

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of sale but the but the nsba yearling sale is such a good tool for breeders

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like me especially or um people going to look for prospects because you might get

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lucky and get a good deal if you're shopping MH or if you're a breeder like me and you have even those that don't

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have a newer breeding program you know it gets your horses seen it gets your

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horses into show hands and it makes them eligible for a lot more money in the

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long run because the nsba sale has like they have to go through the sale to be

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eligible for this certain money classes um so then in turn that gives me the

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mayor owner like that bred them um a higher chance of my FES going and winning money which then makes my mayor

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more proven which you know and so it helps it helps out it's kind of like taking a hit for the long run yeah I saw

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a lot of comments um not in like a negative way just saying that they were

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really surprised because they didn't realize that like you know you haven't been breeding

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very long like your parents have right but you specifically like taking over

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most of the breeding program like my parents are breed for a long time but

Breeding History

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when I was little it was it was Foundation quarter horses that were more for like Ranch stuff and barrel racing

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and then we got into the fatuity barrel racing stuff we had a couple of Mayors wasn't big scale like two Mayors um and

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we did fatuity barrel barrel Cults and Phillies and we had a trainer that we

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owned this mayor with and so that they would take them off to futurities and we go watch them compete and run and so we

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did Barrel horses and even when I was showing the allaround and and the hunter saddle and the pleasure we had these

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Barrel Mayes we didn't have any Western Pleasure Mayors or anything like that and so the

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first actual allaround Western Pleasure baby we had was Annie and that was when

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I was it was 20 15 I was 19 yeah I was 19

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and then after that we went until 2019 which in that time period that four

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years we fold out for other people yeah so we had a bunch of people that would bring Mayors to us and we'd fall out for them um so we had babies every year but

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it just wasn't ours and then we had Beyonce's first baby because Beyonce we

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had been showing her o That's unprofessional with me and who was her

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first baby Frankie which Frankie passed away tragically in a pasture accident at

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two weeks old literally what a freak thing like we had Beyonce out in the pasture with her it was a sunny day she

What a freak thing

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was running around in circles having a great time Beyonce is grazing runs into the fence breaks her

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neck how do you prevent that yeah so freak freak thing gives me chills to

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think about it was just so dumb so it was a machine made Philly like just so

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sad in his like earliest years when he was like first coming up so it was like uh she could be 5 years old right now

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just it and so um that put us back a year cuz

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that was our only baby that year and then the next year we had Stevie we had two FS that year which was Ethel's first

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F that passed away we had a rough couple of years um which we thought was a fluke

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thing found out later it wasn't but um her cult passed away so we had one baby that year which was Stevie and Stevie's

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four still young but she's Beyonce's like first full technically to be in

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training and hasn't made it to the show pin and so Beyonce you know isn't proven proven even though she did well in the

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shows and while her sister's a super horse and like you know we are breeding to the same studs that that May's been

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breed too like Beyonce is still not technically proven as a producer and then Ginger was next freaking hurts

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yourself in a pasture beautiful Mayor literally super high selling weanling

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from her and as her first baby like she's a mega producer already as a two

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three-year-old and then after uh that it's just 2-year-olds like like it like

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after that we have a lot of babies but they're not showing they're not showable and so while Beyonce it's like I see a

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lot of potential in her babies at that sale you know people are seeing an unproven mayor even though I see how

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good her babies are technically speaking people don't know people don't know yeah and there's a lot of gambling ready with

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buying a yearling without also gambling on the fact that that mayor hasn't technically produced anything and so

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Beyonce was really our first like pivotal mayor to add to the breeding

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program and then we did Ethel which we have since put her with the reset mares

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um and then after that we added Trudy Trudy was godsend amazing addition to

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the brood May brand so Trudy's first baby was in 2021 and that was only three babies that year that was like ginger

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Piper and Hank and that was the first year that I started sharing on Tik Tok and so yeah it's new like yeah for this

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type of babies this caliber of babies the quantity of babies it's it's very

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new very baby breeding program MH so yeah I guess some people might not have

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realized even though we've been breeding for forever yeah but we got to make our name for ourselves right they just I

Making our name for ourselves

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think they assume since you have I guess since you're so well known in the horse

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world I mean that's just new though I know but yeah I think the people that

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follow you you know kind of assume that it's just a breeding program that's been established for a long time and you know

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even even so like even with like we'll come to the hor shows and I say hi to everybody like there's so many people I know here but even then I was a youth

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kid I had old crippled gildings that we would like you know the way we could buy

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them was they were kind of almost done with their show career like I would get them at 15 like these horses are so

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expensive at this top level and so I never had a horse that we paid more than and this is going to sound like a lot to

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like like I don't want to make this sound like I'm not saying it's a lot of money $20,000 is a lot of

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money but when it comes to a show horse and a show horse you're going to show at the world championship show the Congress

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it's really not for a finished show horse and so I'm competing against half million doll horses competing against

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$250,000 horses you know and so that's that's what we we had when I was showing

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and we made work and we put the the money into the care of them and to you know help the longevity of their show

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careers so like Calvin who was my heart horse and my like long-term show partner

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I got him when he was 16 showed him for five years and so like that's when I was heaviest in

Flipping the bird

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the show you know show pen but I mean that was the last time I showed Calvin

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was 2016 I mean that's been a long time ago now how old were you in

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2016 15 four five 15

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15 yep I was a freshman in high school how old were you

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Nate grown [Laughter] man two or three so me

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now we you're going to no you don't have to leave that that was just for you do

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we tell I don't think it's a bad thing I mean I guess you how however offensive

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people find flipping the bird is yeah if you find flipping the bird to your friend super offensive then you're

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not going to like this it's just a backwards so we do it backwards though

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so usually I'm gonna use my pinky for this okay we do that as

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well maybe okay maybe my I I'll use my pointer finger I'll use my pointer

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finger okay so usually when you flip the bird somebody you know it's like yeah

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you know just a little well we do this it's just somehow

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more offensive because it's just so stupid and

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annoying especially like I'm doing it like this like like a Little Rock back

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of your of your wrist it is just like the most annoying

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thing I don't know why whenever CU they're they're all freaking Maly Nate

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Matt Jonathan it's just like I think get started because we're talking about like

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how how mad you would be if like someone drove past you and like flipped with the

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bird you know but instead of just this it's it's

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just and we all found that so like that would make us so much angrier for no

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reason oh my gosh anyway what was the question um I don't know I was going to

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see if Nate had any questions or if you had any questions you wanted to ask me cuz you said you

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did okay okay what's what's been your biggest Hesh show revelation

Biggest NSBA Show Revelation

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from your first one which was the Congress biggest show of the dang year to the nsba world it's been almost a

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year what's been your biggest like I don't know what have you learned that

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you didn't know or I don't know just give us some Thoughts From First to now um I mean I was just like completely

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clueless at the Congress like that was the first time I ever watched any type

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of showing at all and um so I would say like coming into this one after going

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to three before this or two before this I think two two before this I felt like

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I knew more of like what good things we were looking for when we were watching um still not great at it

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because y'all pick I mean there was there was one instance we tried to pick like the winners and we were just so far

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off but but here's the thing like I know why you picked the horses you picked and

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like I agreed to some extent on some things like it's a judged event it's not

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scored you know right so I would say that and um I love seeing like just how

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normal it is for dogs to just be walking around

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everywhere everywhere it's just not something I ever thought like I didn't think that happened they're like

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Community dogs yeah and like the Segways and like the little scooters and things how it's just so normal for people to

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just be going over like bumpy like dirt on those and just never lose their footing is crazy okay so you saw how far

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it was for us just to go from one Barn to like the arena I was riding Denver in add in going back to the trailer a few

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times a day which is like in a whole other parking lot and then like honestly

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Tulsa the that show grounds isn't as spread out nearly as like the Congress

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or even OKC like it's it's not near as bad and just the distance that we had to

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walk from the car at the Congress was like it was a lot so much further than

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anywhere we walked here so that that's why I never got good on the Segways that

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was after my that was after my youth yeah I that was a re a revolution that

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I'm glad I wasn't a part of um CU I would have probably eaten it scare died but you know we always had have a golf

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cart or something because you're like hauling stuff like up to the arena even

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if like like at the Congress there's all these barns like I remember the called the swine Barn that we stayed in we were

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never in like the fancy gild um but this from the swine Barn to the Celeste to

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show sometimes it would be like pouring rain and you're trying to take your

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horse up you got the cooler on your horse it's saddled you're taking up the ready bag you've got like the person

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that's showing that's like ready hair slick back makeup on outfit that costs a gajillion dollars on and like you got to

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have a golf cart even if you rent one like big Teal's got to come to the next one that's what we've been big teal is

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the name Big Turk otherwise known as Big teal that's what we've been calling the

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golf cart um she won't be coming with us this year

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to not this year no unfortunately not this year but like let's say

How to learn about horses

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because right now all my horses are at the trainer so I won't be hauling any horses like I used to but if it's one

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that's relatively close and we're not flying take Big Turk with us yeah little trailer behind

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us Nate any input questions mic yourself up

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so that you can ask it interviewing with your mic like just just like it up what would be the best way to learn

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about horses coming from somebody who doesn't know anything and watching them walk and move and them all looking

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exactly the same to me most of the time you've picked up on a lot I have picked

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up on a lot but it's still so similar to me I have to stare and I have to watch one foot and that's also like it's it's

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different for because you've been only to the big shows so like when you're watching the finals of the world show

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they all look good or they all look to the standard so that's why like the differences are so minute I guess that

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makes sense yeah but like if we go to the county fair where there's a wide variety of levels you might be able to

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tell a big difference you know like when there's going to be there's going to be some people that have never been in that

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class class in their life and they're just taking their in their horse in there for fun and then there's the

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people that maybe love to do it but their horse isn't up to par and then there's the people that actually have a

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horse train for that like there's like all these differences but when you go to the best of the best it's going to be

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hard so give yourself some Grace on that one but that is hard and that's kind of

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why like there really isn't a place like I'm sure there's some YouTube videos but like you really have to turn to social

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media for opinions it's literally opinions on that and so if you're not able to go get

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real world experience by going to hores shows and having someone to ask you're limited you're limited to other people's

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opinions and just taking their word for it and so that's why I feel like I feel like Tik Tok and I feel like you know

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other forms of social media like that have been such a good tool for people that haven't had the access to that and that's always been like a big anytime I

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have an interview like that's kind of what I say about my channel is that I don't want to gatekeep horses and I don't want to Gat keep the knowledge of

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things that I had CU I just grew up with parents that wanted to do it

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but that's like so rare yeah you know so I I don't think there's necessarily a

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great answer for that yet of where to go to but I think we're working on it yeah

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yeah one one you said um well one we we

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should go to the county fair I think that would be fun and

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educational for me two you said real world so smoothly I always struggle with

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that my real world real world real world said you know when you don't have real world experience and I was like she just

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didn't even think but you just did it real world will world will world will

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world I thought of another question while he was talking um so you weren't listening to him you were thinking about

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your things I was planning my next [Laughter]

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move um so this show that we're at right now yes

NSBA World Show vs AQHA World Show

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it's the nsba yes world show yes right okay yes

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so what is the difference between this show and the one that's happening in November that is that we've also been

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referring to as the world show okay is it the aqaa world show yes okay so this

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is paint or any it's all stock breeds okay so it's Appaloosas Quarter Horses

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paints I think don't quote me I think poas are a part of nsba which which is

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like a Appaloosa Pony breed that I grew up showing so it's kind of the only

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place on this level for all those breeds to come show against each other which is

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really neat I think it's definitely more Quarter Horses than anything but there's plenty of Paints in

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there there's plent and it also is so easy for trainers because there's so many trainers out there that show both

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quarters and paints and they are just strung out between like oh well the

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paint world is at the same time as this quarter horse show and there's you know and so it's they bring all their horses

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together at one place it's cool but yes November is aqaa world show and it's not

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just that it's so like at this NBA world show there's youth there's open amateur

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select like there's all ages whereas the one we're going to in November is the

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open and amateur world show so no youth okay m mhm so it's like it's the big

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dogs yeah okay just kidding the youth world is so freaking stiff like it is so

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hard because okay think about this as an amateur like most of the time mommy and

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daddy ain't paying your bills anymore so there's like this gap of of people who are super established and can afford the

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nice horses and can afford to go show all the time and whatever and then there's like the people that are straight out of college and they're off

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the tit and they're like struggling to go to a couple horse shows a year the youth and this isn't for everyone but

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when you're talking about like this like little sect up here that is like winning everything

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it's think about think about this of why they'd be so good they don't have like they're children they don't have jobs

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they don't have jobs after school like the only thing they have to do is go

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work and like like work on themselves and showing but it's not like this is my job I need to do this to make money like

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so there's not as much pressure yes yeah and there's not the pressure of like and again don't take this so

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literally I'm sure there are some kids that have jobs okay but in general you have more time to train you

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have I mean you're just younger it's easier for your body it's easier for everything and like whether people think

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it or not horse riding is very hard on your body um and I mean a lot of them

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it's on mommy and daddy's dime which is fine yeah I did that like that's totally cool

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but usually Mommy and Daddy have a bigger budget than you straight out of college or you straight you know and so

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usually you have those like super finished show horses again at the top not talking about always um you have

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those super finished show horses you have you know or your mom's show horse that you're showing in the youth that is

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just went and won the world in the junior Western Pleasure you kind of have a leg up yeah so there's that too at the

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youth world so I never discount the youth are know awesome I don't know that

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of any of the shows that we've been to that we've sat and watched a youth right I don't think we have either no because

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we've always been watching like Hank was the open stuff so it's always been trainer yeah classes I'd be interested

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in watching that if if there's because we're going to the Congress we'll see what's what's being shown there cuz they

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they do kind of have like youth week because they only have so much time off school so what he has his hand up

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is it really a world show yes what makes it a world show so it's hosted in the

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United States but you're like the whole world is invited with their quarter horses and you can qualify so I remember

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when I was in uh at the youth World they would have a night where like a ceremony of um like you'd walk through with your

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state or country and so obviously the United States would do it by state and then there would be tons of different

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countries like I remember like Germany Great Britain Canada uh Sweden there was

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Israel there was I mean there was like all kinds of stuff now is it going to be

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Australia there's uh tons of Australian quarter horse people are there people

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flying their horses in probably not it's mostly people

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that will have a horse here in the United States and then they come from their country and show it here like they

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have it with a trainer here mostly I would say I was just like baseball World

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Series it's really just the US and like one team from Canada I will say it's prominent it's most prominent

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it's the American cords right so it's most prominent in the US but there are many countries that come in oh yeah it

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is a world show oh yeah thanks I'm out okay I have another

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question why is the Congress considered

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more of a prestigious one of the more prestigious shows than like the AQA

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world show or like the show we're at now the nsba show I would say in the quarter

Quarter Horse World

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horse World these are the three shows that are like top okay then there are like the majors there's the sun circuit

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the silver dollar circuit the red bud the big a like there's this lineup of

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big shows that AR aren't necessarily the world show or the Congress but the Congress it's not a world show you don't

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have to qualify you don't have you know it's it's kind of just whoever wants to come it has the most entries so by

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default having the most people it's very difficult which makes winning it

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prestigious also it's one of the only quarter horse shows that's not the world

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show that has like all the classes it has so many futurities as well for like

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money and whatnot so it starts off with raining it's got all the raining big

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rainers come per year it's got all the Cow Horse stuff it's got roping and head like like the heading and healing it's

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got um sorting it's got all the ranch stuff it's got the Western Pleasure in

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all age groups it's got barrel racing pole bending like everything the quarter

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horse does jumping everything the quarter horse does right wrapped up into the show it takes a

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month to do it because there are so many people so from the sheer volume of

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people that come to this show and then the amount that the Ohio Quarter Horse

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Association puts into this show it brings like I don't know the figure it brings to Columbus every year millions

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of dollars to their economy like it's a huge piece of the Columbus economy um

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and so it's just been going on for 50 something years at this point and it has

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just gained a really good reputation and because of the sheer volume of people you're you're competing

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against even though there's no qualification that's why when you say my

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horse won the Congress you're like damn yeah because the reason I was asking is

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because a lot of the times when you'll be referring to a baby and you're

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referring to you know their parents it's almost always two times Congress

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Champion two time world champion and you don't really ever hear anything

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else and you know like you will those are just the most well-known yeah when

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you really get down to the nitty-gritty and when you know all the shows and like like last night at the sale you heard

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them say like Beyonce my Manor she had won X amount of dollars at the Southern bell breeders for CH like which

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I think that is actually the Congress but they would say they would say other things like the Tom Powers fuity like

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there's all these futurities throughout the year there's all these different big shows so whenever you're seeing a horse

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listed for sale that has like won a bunch of this the Arizona Sun circuit that year like they'll be like it was

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just a circuit champion at the Arizona Sun circuit which is a huge deal you know so yeah okay so my question for

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y'all again is the best part of the trip this trip so far specifically

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he's going first I got it my uh favorite part of the trip was I

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never been to a horse auction I've been to other auctions um and they were

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calm this is not this was a totally different experience there's tables the auctioneer is going 100 miles an hour

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and there's these guys in white shirts and cowboy hats and red ties just mosing around the

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outside of the round pin screaming it wasn't all of them it

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was just ours it was just our guy it was just ours but our guy was my favorite part of the whole trip because he I mean

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from the first scream it just knocked you back in your seat I wasn't ready he

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loved his job he was getting the energy up who's making people spend money oh 100% I'll put a clip of him up so you

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can just get a hint of what we're talking about but experiencing that was my favorite part of the trip because I

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had never experienced it before I would say close second has just been the group

38:37

Hangouts the the team bonding we always have a good time on these trips where we're just like in an Airbnb and not in

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a hotel room and we're like able to chill at night yeah just the hanging out

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is very grateful to just be able to hang out good team building yeah yeah those

38:54

are my favorite Parts uh but if the question was what is my biggest big regret I have one too the biggest regret

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is there was a horse that came into the round pin and you know the the

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auctioneer starts going crazy and I'm expecting man this horse looks great Lot number 58 I think everybody's looking

39:13

forward to this and I think it's going to go crazy like a lot of the hor other horses had but it didn't and it went up

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to 1600 and kind of stalled out and I'm thinking to myself I got to buy this horse right

39:28

he was like I'm gonna do it we're in my price range kind of I'm like who can I

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split it with and I'm like I think she can split it with me but I don't know

39:39

how much it cost to get home I don't even know how you get it home it would cost more to get it home than what you would pay for it and that's what I was

39:44

thinking and I don't afterward we were like we could have combined our P what

39:53

PM no you don't get P gave us a p

40:01

Jonathan but the problem was he said it didn't roll over and so we couldn't we

40:07

only had that day's worth of pum he would tell you about the pum the day

40:13

after I didn't know what to do with it afterwards I didn't have a place to keep it and I was like Katie will keep it

40:19

just kidding it's gilding she only has girls but it's $1,600 do I figure it out

40:25

and I didn't pull the trigger and I think that was my path and I missed it

40:31

biggest regret so far in life that was it oh no he's GNA be

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thinking about lot 58 yep I don't even know was it 58 are we sure not positive

40:44

at all we're not sure that's what he thinks it was but there was also like 110 babies in

40:50

there I I don't think I have any regrets I really liked our travel day I

40:57

don't know why I had I thought our travel day was really fun our travel day I liked it we were all just hanging out

41:03

on the plane like reading our little books and then we made we won't tell you which one it is we forced Nate into

41:10

reading a what what would you call

41:16

it um a nasty

41:21

book a women's fantasy book M uh and so

41:27

we we made him and he still has not abided by what he promised he said 100 Pages because we needed him to get

41:34

through page 80 to embarrass him and he only made it through like the entry

41:40

level of it and got scared so he stopped but we were GNA make him on the plane tomorrow continue um so that was

41:47

funny sheer horror I liked I liked that day and then I liked last night we were

41:53

just in here we watched a movie my one of my favorite movie I literally no one

41:58

not everyone paid attention to it um but me and Nate had a good time watching

42:06

it I was my donkey had just been born that that missed the recap your favorite

42:12

show got cancelled my favorite show got cancelled my FS sold for less than what

42:19

it cost to bring them there I think it was was distraught but you kept it

42:26

together really well well we kept them we tried our best to keep the mood up last night like I when I was laying

42:33

there and we were watching this movie and I was already like I missed Dolly's birth like you know all this stuff and then I just like first Tik Tok I see

42:40

open the app My Lady Jane cancelled and I'm like I'm gonna cry like that was the

42:47

that was the straw that was that was it that did it I was like my Lady Jane being

42:52

cancelled was probably the worst of the news honestly and it was the it was the

42:58

worst of everything okay I was I was prepared for the other things yeah I wasn't prepared for that like should not

43:06

hit you when you were down I just I just reminded myself that it's being canceled and I'm I'm upset

43:12

we're going to have to end here um because I'm gonna go cry um but also the

43:21

fact that we've talked so long sitting here um partially some of the batteries ran out and Nate just lost all the

43:26

footage um cuz he wasn't making attention and then and then partially we've just been

43:33

like yapping uh for a long time so we probably just need to wrap it up but um

43:38

this was more cash more hanging out on the couch in our jammies um let me know

43:43

what you thought of this kind of take on the catching up with Katie episodes usually we're kind of like put together

43:50

I have on like 12-hour makeup put together but like I'm in my jammies and so if you like this better it's probably

43:56

be long longer and we're a little less organized I don't know let us know what

44:02

you think I mean we could kind of do both we could every every now and then do some do some like Jammy sashes I know

44:08

some yapping let me know what you think let me know if you have any questions or like if you want more

44:14

themed catching up with kaes you know where we like kind of stick to one topic and if they if you do want that like

44:21

what topics we need help we need guidance so I guess we're going to end it here and we're about to play Lord of

44:27

the Rings Monopoly so hope you enjoyed see you in the next one