What's up everybody?

Sorry, it's been a while.

Welcome to Along for the Ride with Andrea Fapani.

I've got two toll here with me today.

I want to apologize.

We've been really busy pre-futurity and futurity season

and is in full effect, and I've been on the road a lot.

It's not a good excuse. I promised you that we were going to put them out a little bit quicker,

but we're going to do our best to get back on track.

I think I've got a couple lined out that you guys are going to enjoy.

And like I said, we're going to stay on track from now on, hopefully.

Today we're going to do something a little bit different.

Instead of just talking to one person, I wanted to talk to a few guys that are getting ready

for the rainy futurity like I am and really pick their brain as far as talking to us,

as far as their horses, how they're riding, but also as far as strategies and what they're looking

for in their three-year-olds. This time of the year, they're only one, two, three weeks out of

the futurity. How they approach it? You'll see that maybe some of the guys are going to approach

it pretty easy to where they just look at it as another horse show and want their horses just

relax and quiet and going to the futurity.

And then there's going to be guys that will be talking about if they push their horses a little bit more,

or the individual that needs more pressure, less pressure.

So I thought it'd be interesting for myself.

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