Trevor Brazile sent RR Buckles Clubhouse out of his futurity career with a win at the 2025 Gold Buckle Futurities World Finals, moving the horse’s QData earnings to $254,801 in the Show Me The Buckles son’s time with the Relentless Remuda.
Brazile said the final night carried pressure from the first steer, with a tight field and horses that had come through the season strong.
“I was nervous on all four,” Brazile said. “Everybody acts like I don’t understand, but everybody gets nervous if they’re trying to win. There’s doing 100% and there’s doing 97%, and sometimes that’s enough. You just never know. And honestly, I wouldn’t have any fun with it if I didn’t get nervous.”
RR Buckles Clubhouse, a 2017 palomino gelding bred by Michael O. Coe and owned by Bryan and Nancy Beaver, was one of the early horses to carry the RR prefix as Brazile and Miles Baker formalized the Relentless Remuda program. The Show Me The Buckles gelding is out of Hail Olena, a Shine Like Hail mare. Baker started showing him as a 3-year-old, making the finals at the ARHFA World Championship that year and setting the foundation for the head horse he became.
“You can actually just go rope on him,” Brazile said. “There are some horses that just look pretty doing things, and you go complete the course, and that’s fine. But with him, when he engages the face, it’s fun. That’s the part you look forward to.”
Clubhouse stayed in the Remuda for his entire career—uncommon in a futurity-focused program built around preparing horses for outside owners. That longevity meant the gelding matured inside the same barn where he started, gaining miles as the program expanded around him. Brazile appreciated Clubhouse’s reliability during the busiest time of the year, noting how steady 6-year-olds simplify a barn full of younger prospects.
“He’s been a joy to have in the barn,” Brazile said. “You hate to see those leave, especially the ones that make it easy on you every day. But you’re proud to know they’re going to go do what you trained them to do. That’s the whole point.”
Clubhouse’s record includes the Equinety Platinum Medal Futurity heading title and the TX Best Heading Derby, and he served as an anchor horse in a program that now produces a wider set of prospects each year. His departure—leaving from the Gold Buckle to head to Arizona to enjoy live with the Beavers—marks the end of the first era of RR-prefixed horses that came through the Remuda from their 2-year-old seasons to their finished careers.
For Brazile, the final futurity win wasn’t just the end of a season but the close of a horse’s complete chapter inside the program. And, as he put it, the gelding “did exactly what he was trained to do” on the night it counted.
