Trevor Brazile had a $20,715 day Friday, Sept. 6 at the TX Best Futurity, winning both the Open Derby heading and heeling on two stallions—Time To Glo and Pride And Joyy—who now have amassed $407,211 in earnings a year and a half into their show careers.
Brazile rode Time To Glo, by Hickory Holly Time out of Look At Her Glo by CD O Cody, to the Texas Best Open Heading Derby title with a score of 623.48 on four head, worth $7,125. He won the Open Heeling Derby on Pride And Joyy, the son of Stevie Rey Von out of Fun N Fancy Free by Peptoboonsmal, with 618.30 on four head, worth $8,050.
Brazile also won second worth $5,540 in the heading derby on the syndicated stallion, The Darkk Side, the 2019 son of Once In A Blu Boon out of the blue hen mare DT Sugar Chex Whiz.
“Usually people think riding a stud is a disadvantage,” Brazile said. “But I think all those misconceptions about stallions have been from the wrong kind of stallion. Now I forget they’re studs because they are so easy to be around, and I just think breeding that disposition and mental focus into the next generation is the real advantage.”
Time To Glo, raised and trained by Bobby Lewis, is now owned by Time To Glo Partners, led by Solo Select CEO Ty Smith with Las Tunas Cattle Co., Kaleb Terlip, Redgie Probst and the Relentless Remuda in partnership. The black stud—a two-time Gold Buckle Futurity Super Horse—has $183,567 in earnings, including money in the tie-down roping, heading, heeling and breakaway. He joined the Relentless Remuda’s string in late June.
“Bobby Lewis did an amazing job with this horse, and so I’m walking the line of trying to change certain aspects of his style of competition without hurting the great horse that they made him. He doesn’t need to do anything different because he was trained great. Obviously that’s why we’ve sought him out for this program, but mainly just trying to make him fit my show style without using the pizazz that people are used to seeing with that horse.”
Joseph Harrison, who originally showed Time To Glo for Lewis, helped Brazile in the victory.
Pride And Joyy was first an NRCHA Snaffle Bit Futurity Finalist—finishing third in the premier reined cow horse event with Chris Dawson—before joining the Remuda. He has $223,644 in lifetime earnings, and he’s been shown by World Champs like Paul Eaves and Jeremy Buhler. Relentless Remuda partner Miles Baker does the heading when Pride And Joyy competes.
“That horse in particular has just been successful in every endeavor, whether it be in the cow horse or in the roping,” Brazile said. “He took to the roping so fast that we automatically thought we would get the heeling down and then go on to the next event. But we thought what those other guys had mentioned that this horse is so real at heeling, why would we have him do something else? Because he has that extra thing that makes him real, in every environment, every situation.”
