For the past six years, Erin Sagers has lead The Coolest Te into the halter pen at the Ford AQHYA World Championship Show. Each year, she’s taken home a buckle, and 2007 was no exception.

With three reserve world championships and two world championships, Erin and “Bubba” added another title to their list of accolades Saturday with a win in aged geldings.

“This horse is just one of the special ones,” Erin said of her 9-year-old gelding. “We keep saying we’re going to retire him, but then we’ll go back and look at him and we’re like, he just hasn’t aged, he still looks great, we’ll go again and see what happens. And we just keep getting it.”

Erin has had Bubba since he was a 3 year old. For all of his success, she said he knows he’s something special back at her trainer’s, Gene and Bobbie Parker’s, barn in North Carolina.

“He’s great, he thinks he’s top dog,” she said. “He likes to hang out, and he does what he wants to do. He goes out first. He gets his bath first, all that kind of stuff.”

What’s in store for Bubba when he finally does retire?

“He would probably just stay right there with us and live on the farm and get to go out and play,” Erin said. “Just kind of a congratulations, thanks for everything you gave us.”

And does Erin think she’ll ever have another Bubba?

“I don’t know, he’s so hard,” she said. “We’ve been looking and looking, and he’s just one of those horses that comes along maybe once in a lifetime. We might never see another one like him, so we’ve just treasured what we’ve had with him for as long as possible.”