It's been an excellent relationship for us. Their events are doing very well for us. When you go to a lot of these events it is a lot of families with two or three kids.

We also had the tragic events of September 11th, and I know for everyone that's caused us to step back, think about our priorities. It's a tragedy that affects us personally and affects our businesses. For the computer industry in particular, I think it highlights the importance of security, giving that far more importance than we've had in the past. We don't want our digital systems to have weaknesses that allow for tragedies, exploiting the weaknesses that are there. And so there's a renewed sense of focus on that.

As the largest horse sale in the West, while it may be costly to us to postpone our events, it will be beneficial to you, our consignors and our buyers, to have the confidence in the health and safety of your animals.

Events like this one warn us there is a virus loose within our culture. Too many of our young people are susceptible to it.

Unfortunately, illegal events of March 14, 2005, and thereafter have caused that number to be reduced.

He (Hermann) was excited to meet us. We all started going to different events ? spiritual churches, second line parades.