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.
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.
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 a following that comes with them.
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 revisit that for a while.
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.
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.
Everything has gone off pretty well, except for the weather.
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. That's why it's so important that we try to get it in, even though it will be at a separate time from the fair -- it will be harder to draw a crowd.
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