Katie Pride has plenty of reasons to be proud of Who Is Your Daddy.

A name with attitude for a horse with attitude, “Scooter Daddy” helped Katie win the world championship buckle in the stake race Tuesday night, just after taking reserve in the pole bending.

“My stake race was a whole lot better than my poles,” the Lebanon, Tennessee, youth said. But she has nothing to complain about.

Katie has had the 2002 gelding since he was a 2-year-old. She’s done all the work on him and was pretty proud of his third place finish at the Dixie National the first time she ran him. Since then, Scooter Daddy figures he’s something special.

“He’s kind of temperamental,” she said. “When you saddle him up, he knows it’s his time, he knows what he needs to do. At the house he’s good natured, but as soon as he gets in the trailer, he says, ‘OK, I’m here for a show, leave me alone.’”

And given that he shares his name with a popular Toby Keith song, he even has his own anthem at a lot of shows.

“Usually whenever I run, they call his name and play the song, so he kind of has his own little mark,” Katie said.

Katie added another feather to Scooter Daddy’s cap when she rode in the finals wearing a white shirt with his name in turquoise rhinestones across the back. Her brother, Dewayne, made it for her.

“It was kind of something I asked for, and he said he wasn’t going to do it,” she said. “But as soon as we were pulling out of the driveway, he’d made it for me.”

Though Katie has been to the Ford Youth World several times before, this was Scooter Daddy’s first trip. And he’s the first horse to earn her a spot in the finals.

 “This is the first year I got back, so I’m pretty proud of myself,” she said.