In a good year the derby will make us $15,000 or $16,000 clear, … It’s a huge draw, we always pack the stands full of people and it’s our single biggest moneymaker of the year....

My goal is for us to clear $10,000 on it, … If we can clear $10,000, I’ll be quite happy. We can lick our wounds and get ready for next year.

In a normal year we would probably get about $8,000 to $9,000 from them, … It was half this year of what we normally get.

And for the next couple of years we won’t be able to make big improvements,

It’s the first game of the year. You’ll have that. Give it time and everyone will find their stroke.

We were getting extremely dry. But it all came at one time.

You never know what the first game is going to mean. Last year we won our first game and dropped (five) in a row after that. Maybe this year we pick up a bunch after...

Everything has gone off pretty well, except for the weather.

We knew there was a shortage for this type of facility in Greeley so that’s why we built it for the community and for us.

I’m not a big annuities fan,

We’ve been having free shows under the big top, … We usually try to get local groups out, and the attendance is higher because it’s free and usually if its’ somebody local there will be...

It’s just one of those things, … The fair is an entertainment type thing — you have to try new things from time to time. This is one that just didn’t work out. We won’t...

The rain poured, … It started Friday afternoon, stopped for a while — about the time the livestock auction was supposed to start it just poured and it rained pretty much the whole night.

And the parking areas were just a muddy mess and we probably would have done more damage than we would have made on the derby,