Two different sires, two winning rope horse stallions, one mare: Fun N Fancy Free.

Fun N Fancy Free’s production record is starting to read like a breeding industry case study, and her newest entry is a 4-year-old that just banked $58,187 across two events at the Gold Buckle Futurities Spring Showdown, bringing her progeny earnings to $495,388 with just three money earners, and a string of big-time up-and-comers waiting in the wings.

Trevor Brazile piloted Kryptoniite, a 2022 Metallic Cattack stallion out of Fun N Fancy Free, to a 903.63 on four head and a $30,940 paycheck in the 4-&-Under Heading at Hardy-Murphy Coliseum in Ardmore, Oklahoma. The same horse placed third in the 4-&-Under Tie-Down Roping average and won the Limited 4-&-Under Tie-Down Roping for another $27,247.

Two-for-two

Kryptoniite isn’t the first stallion out of Fun N Fancy Free to make waves. His big bro was decent.

Fun N Fancy Free is the dam of Kryptoniite’s half-brother, Pride And Joyy, “Kilo.” The Stevie Rey Von son sits at more than $435,000 in lifetime earnings and remains the winningest rope horse stallion of all time, while his first foal crop hit the ground in 2025.

Now, Fun N Fancy Free has done it again with an entirely different cross.

“The story here is the maternal side,” Brazile said. “Kryptoniite has the same run and grab that Kilo had. I always said Kilo, as long as we rode him, he never felt like he was in a bind in the run. And I think the same of this horse.”

Fun N Fancy Free is by the great Peptoboonsmal, leaving Kryptoniite with no true run in his pedigree, but Brazile said you would never know it watching him cover ground.

“For not having any race in his pedigree, that horse runs strong,” Brazile said. “It seems like he catches up and it’s easy to go because he’s never really laboring to catch up. He has so much drive as far as in the run, that it makes getting ahold of the steer and handling the steer easier for him. When you’re ahead of that step, it’s easier in the face. They just build on another.”

Market is Moving

Fun N Fancy Free has the production record, but Metallic Cattack is the other half of why Kryptoniite’s young story is already turning heads. Known around the barn as “TicTac,” the stallion has quickly become one of the industry’s hottest young sires, and Kurt Neff recently bought half of him as demand around his offspring continues to climb.

“If you want to know the honest truth, I thought that he was sitting there waiting untapped a little bit,” Neff said. “I liked his versatility and diversity that it looked like he had. His babies are now just getting old enough and showing what they are.”

TicTac’s books are stacked, and the traits Neff sees in the current foals are the same ones showing up in Kryptoniite’s early success.

“The foals that we have are the most trainable, easy-going and have the best attitude,” Neff said. “And the chrome and the flash and all that he puts on them is just unbelievable.”

Neff isn’t talking from the cheap seats, either. Alongside Melanie Smith and Ty Smith of Solo Select, he owns a foal out of Fun N Fancy Free and Metallic Cattack—the same cross Brazile just won on in Ardmore.

“That one makes me excited for sure,” Neff said.

Kryptoniite may be the latest headline-maker for Fun N Fancy Free, but Brazile believes there’s still more coming behind him.

“This makes me really excited about The Goodbye Lane prospect I have out of her standing in the pasture,” Brazile said.