EP #49 Best Little Derby of the West - Chasing 82 Series

I'm Brian.

And I'm Jody.

This should be a really fun show.

Brian, you've heard me say that there's no such thing as an easy reigning.

This is a perfect example that when we look at the Best Little Derby of the West, 145 head in the open draw, up 43% from last year.

And that number is staggering.

I mean, 43% is staggering.

Huge growth.

The

quality of the horse show, the quality of the horses.

Oh, I can't wait to talk about it.

And I know you've got some great data that maybe can help explain some of the growth and where it came from.

We've got some data.

There's no doubt about it.

Yes, a great show.

Yes, great for the West Coast as well.

The question now is.

Do we begin to split up the competition in aged events, four-year-old specific, three-year-old fraternity, four-year-old derby, five-year-old and above maturity? You know, it appears that that's where the industry is wanting to go by the numbers.

We've got the data and we'll break it down accordingly.

That's the question that we continue to try and answer.

So we've got it for you and we got the data.

Well, I think that's a great question, and we had a little casual conversation about it.

I would ask some of the viewers if the question would interest them.

The four-year-old events, we've talked about that many times, and essentially early in the year, the four-year-old classes and four-year-old events, derbies, are... essentially three-year-olds i mean this got done shown in december and all of a sudden we're going to april or march or april and these early shows they're just long three-year-olds four-year-old classes i think are a great idea i really do four-year-old only my question would be then should the four-year-olds only be allowed to show in that four-year-old event in other words you choose i'm going to have this four-year-old event instead of being able to cross enter um Should the four-year-olds be then explicitly in a four-year-old event or should they be allowed to go in or wherever they want to? It's just a question that I have and I'd be curious about that.