Terri Rogers said watching her daughter, Miranda Lynn Rogers, earn her world championship jumping title in the jump-off Friday night was the scariest thing in the world. But Miranda’s dad, Gary, takes heart knowing his little girl knows what she’s doing.

Miranda admitted being nervous while walking the course.

“It’s my last youth year, and it’s my last class the last day that I’m showing,” she said, “so I really wanted to do a good job because we’ve always done well here, but never this well. I knew it was my last chance, and I just wanted to have the best plan possible.”

Miranda knew going clean and in the time allowed was all that really mattered when she and SHL Gotta Luv Me went in for the first round.

“We really just wanted to have a working hunter pace,” she said. “Just go around clean. You have to go clean in the first round to guarantee yourself anything later. We wanted to be careful.”

Her plan paid off and she and “Dillon” landed a spot in the seven horse jump-off for the world championship.

With the fences raised to the maximum height of 3 feet 6inches and options to make tight turns and save strides, Miranda was fifth to ride in the jump-off. Just two riders would follow her.

“I knew no one had gone clean with no time faults,” she said. “I knew I had to go clean and fast, but I wanted to be careful and not make any ridiculous mistakes.”

They left the ring with a second clear round and a time of 36.944 seconds. Miranda and Dillon couldn’t be beat.

Miranda, from New Market, Tennessee, got Dillon in 2003. She started jumping with her trainer and neighbor, Michelle Whitler, shortly thereafter. They made their first appearance at the Youth World six months later, where they took reserve in the jumping.

Miranda has been scaring her mother ever since, placing third and sixth in the jumping at the Youth World since then and winning the class at the All American Quarter Horse Congress last year before finally closing her youth career by claiming her gold trophy.