It has been a good fall for Gerri Leigh Pratt and Kids Keeping Cool.

The pair won the amateur grand champion mares at the All American Quarter Horse Congress in October, and with AQHA Professional Horseman Ross Roark at the lead, the 4-year-old mare took the open grand champion mares title as well.

The winning continued for Gerri and Kids Keeping Cool on November 9 when they were named the amateur aged mares world champion.

“She’s got a very, very kind nature,” Gerri said. “To me, she’s a gorgeous-bodied mare with a baby doll head and a beautiful eye.”

However, Gerri was a little nervous during the judges’ line-up during the class.

Top Down Mazeratti and Christina Licavoli were the first to be placed at the top of the line under judge Donald McDuffee. Gerri and her mare were third.

The next judge, Patti Carter, put The Sweetest Clue and Ina Ginsberg in the top spot with Gerri in fourth place.

“I was starting to get nervous,” Gerri recalled.

It wasn’t until Judge Larry Hansch lined up his placings that Gerri and Kids Keeping Cool moved to first place. They stayed there under the next two judges.

“It was a very tough class, and there were a lot of good horses out there,” she said.

Kids Keeping Cool will show again November 17 with Ross at the lead. After that, Gerri might retire her.

“I’m not sure yet, but she probably will be,” she said. “I’m excited to get some babies out of her.”