Nu One Time Blues has been a dominant force in the rope horse futurity world, but he showed his versatility winning the 2025 Top Heel Horse of the BFI title under Joseph Harrison.
The 6-year-old stud, owned by Brett and Margo Davis of Gucci Equine, helped Harrison win second in the Feist behind Bubba Buckaloo for $85,000. For the 2023 ARHFA 4-&-Under World Champion Heel Horse to conquer the grueling, six-head battle of the BFI proves that “Boujee” is will be talented in any setting.
“He’s got a lot of talent,” Harrison, 37, said. “A stud that has too much confidence, he’s in your way; he’s a problem, he’s out-thinking you, he’s doing stuff without you. A stud like this one here, he’s got the right amount of confidence. He’s confident that he can go do what he thinks we’re doing, but he’s respectful. So if I pick my hand up somewhere and say, ‘Uh huh, wait right here,’ or I put my leg on and say, ‘Move up right there,’ he does instantly. He’s got a ton of good feel. He’s got a good mouth. He’s really fast-footed. So I just love him. He’s the total package in my opinion.”
For six-time NFR heeler Harrison, Boujee is his second Top Heel Horse of the BFI, his first coming in 2022 aboard Freckles Instant Coffee. With Harrison’s rise to one of the premier rope horse trainers in the industry, having had two Top Heel Horses of the BFI in his career is confirmation in his program.
“This is the roping of all ropings,” Harrison said. “It’s like, one of the hardest ropings of all the ropings. The longest start, the steers try. To me, getting the award once, man, you had a really cool horse–good for you. Even if you trained him, good for you. But winning the award twice? Having them pick your horse out of, there were 108 heel horses here today. That’s just cool. That just means I’m doing my job. I’m doing what I’m supposed to be doing.”
Boujee Best
By One Time Pepto out of Nu Bay Be Blue by Nu Cash, Boujee joined Harrison’s program nearly two years ago, and his versatility isn’t really a surprise. Nu One Time Blues was an NRCHA Snaffle Bit Futurity finalist in 2022 before going to town as a rope horse. He’s since won multiple rope horse futurity titles and was one of the top-earning young rope horses in 2024. More recently, Harrison and Boujee won the 2025 Ariat World Series of Team Roping Texas Two Step Open, hosted by The Patriot, with Peyton Walters March 6.
“It’s silly for me to think of how many times that I’ve dropped the ball on him and the ball’s been dropped for him,” Harrison said. “It’s team roping and we’re human, and we make mistakes. Rarely does he, but we do. And how many times we’ve dropped the ball and yet after today, his LTE’s going to be some kind of a little over $270,000. To think about the at least $100,000 worth of times that I’ve dropped the ball on him, that speaks loud for him that we can mess up and he still covers up a lot of times.”
When it came time for Harrison to choose his mount for the Feist, it took careful consideration. While Boujee has never even gone that fast at home, he proved in the practice pen that he wanted to get the call for the Lazy E and whatever else Harrison and the Davises see fit.
“A horse that’s that good, he don’t need to go in a stud stall,” Harrison said. “He needs to stay in front of the public. He needs to stay going and winning, getting to do what he likes to do. You can’t tell me that he don’t love that. The way he operates, you can’t tell me that he doesn’t know everybody’s watching him.”
Cool, calm and collected, Boujee doesn’t give off the typical stallion aura. Harrison limits the quantity of steers he runs on Nu One Time Blues to keep him sharp and confident but also sound-minded. That close attention to detail Harrison has for his horses is a requirement in his program.
“I’m a horse lover,” Harrison said with a smile. “I did really good today because I didn’t cry. But awards like that for those horses, it pats ’em on the back so much for doing what I’ve asked them to. If you like one as much as I do, you pay super good attention to them.
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“I got to stop every time and pay attention to what I’m doing because the littlest detail can keep a horse from being great,” he continued. “He might be a good horse but, man, if you’d have just paid a little more attention to him and done him just any more right, he might’ve been great. Well, that’s what I’m after. I’m after some great horses, and we get so few of them as just a team roper. Very, very few. We’re lucky if we get one in our whole career that was great. But as a trainer and the volume of horses that I’m going to get on, I’m going to get a chance to get on enough horses that I’m going to get more great ones than just a regular team roper. What I don’t want to do is hinder it. If [a horse] does want to be great, I want to give him every opportunity that I can to be the very best one I’ve ever crawled on.”
