Solo Select and the Relentless Remuda are headed to the Old West Rope Horse Sale and Futurity in Heber City, Utah, on Friday, June 19, with two mares bred to carry elite head-horse genetics forward—both 2023 sorrel daughters of Show Me The Buckles, each cross hand-picked by Trevor Brazile and Miles Baker.
The pitch on these two is bigger than a single futurity season. They’re mares, and that means whatever they win in the arena, they can hand down for generations. Brazile and Baker didn’t fall into either one—they built both on purpose, off the same top side, to be the very definition of a head horse.
That top side is Show Me The Buckles, the $156,943 NRHA Open Futurity Co-Reserve Champion who has already sired some of Brazile and Baker’s biggest winners, including RR Buckles Clubhouse, a $254,801 earner and ARHFA Old West Judged Open Heading Futurity Reserve Champion—the cross already wins in the heading pen at this exact sale.
What separates the two is what’s underneath. One brings a reiner’s handle over hard barrel speed; the other brings raw run and the intensity that finishes a head run. Both are eligible for the Old West Futurity’s million-dollar sale graduate program, so a buyer gets a horse to win on now and a producer to build on for years after.
And of course, incentive eligibility is a given with these two mares—Show Me The Buckles offspring are eligible for Riata, Gold Buckle, Royal Crown and Ruby Buckle.
Browse pedigrees, black type and videos on both Solo Select / Relentless Remuda prospects
Here’s a closer look at what’s headed to Heber City.
Hip No. 40 – Sunset Blvd
By Show Me The Buckles and out of Insane For Fame SI 82—a $159,687 earner, Dash Ta Fame daughter and the 2012 Barrel Horse of the Year—she pairs the Show Me The Buckles ability and mind on top with proven speed on the bottom. Insane For Fame has produced seven money-earners, and the family runs deep through her second dam, Insanely Jealous SI 105.
The story behind her is part of the draw. Teton Ridge bred Insane For Fame to Show Me The Buckles while they owned the stallion, then Miles Baker and Ty Smith found her and bought her. Sunset Blvd went to colt starter Tyson Benson, made the cut into the Relentless program and has been on the A-team ever since.
26-time PRCA World Champion Trevor Brazile sees a cross that’s working.
“She’s such a unique mare—a cross on one that was great in the barrels, one that was known to be fast,” Brazile said. “But to watch her ride, it lets us think we’re on the right track on those type combos. She rides classy like a reiner.”
Miles Baker says her credentials set her up squarely as a head horse.
“With her credentials, she’s set up to be a head horse, and she’s got some cool characteristics for one,” Baker said. “She wants to score good, she runs flat, she’s super cowy, and she wants to face—she’s got a lot of sting to her face. She’s got a lot of potential as a head horse, as a performer and as a producer.”
She’s also further along than her age suggests—and Baker is in no hurry to push that.
“It wouldn’t bother me one bit to compete on her out here,” Baker said. “But I always tell people, just because you can on a 3-year-old doesn’t mean you should. There’s so much potential for what she can win later on, and it’s not worth pushing a 3-year-old now when the opportunities for them are at 4.”
For a buyer, that’s the appeal: a gentle, advanced mare with the foundation already underneath her and her best earning years still in front of her. Plus—Brazile and Baker are hopeful that the future buyer will keep her in their program—an offer they don’t extend lightly.
Hip No. 38 – Show Me Relentless
Show Me Relentless is a breeding plan come full circle. When NFR header Jake Cooper rodeoed on Bucks For Bullet as a 5-year-old, Brazile took notice of the big, good-minded mare—and when he and Baker started collecting mares to breed to Show Me The Buckles, she was one of the first he named. Bucks For Bullet, by Frenchmans Bullet. Show Me Relentless is the result of that cross, and she’s been in Brazile’s lineup since coming back from the colt starter.
She is a big, strong mare with a lot of run. She wants to be great in the box, runs under your swing, carries your loop, and is easy to rope the horns on. She wants to face, and she’s serious about it.
For Brazile, the cross traces straight back to the mare that started it.
“That mare was our breeding program in full circle. I specifically called Jake Cooper to breed to her when we owned Show Me The Buckles,” Brazile said. “She did her job great and she was beautiful. She was the first mare that came to mind when I wanted to raise head horses. Watching old videos of that mare and this one, I have really high hopes—because they look so much alike. A lot of that came through. She’s one we’ll build for the next level. She’s going to be a big-time, real head horse.”
He calls her one of a kind, and means it literally.
“I remember that mare catching my eye, and I was going to try to buy her. There aren’t a lot out of her—I got one, and Jake got one, and his died,” Brazile said. “So she’s one of a kind.”
Baker backs the run with no hedging.
“There’s zero doubt about her run. Some horses have extra—they can catch up and still stay under themselves and keep their stride gathered even running full speed, and she’s like that,” Baker said. “She’s never maxed out. There’s plenty of run.”
He’s just as direct about her motor and her build.
“That mare is violent in a good way. She wants to do stuff 100% of the time. She’s real intense, she scores, she can really run, and she faces,” Baker said. “She’s a big head horse. She’s gonna be the kind you could ride at rodeos and big ropings whenever she’s done.”
Brazile sees the same horse paying off twice—first in the arena, then in the broodmare band.
“Not only will this be a real head horse, but what a big, strong mare for her babies in the future as a broodmare. Her future will be really good,” Brazile said. “She’s a desirable size, and her speed—she’s already showing those little intangibles. Her cow, the way she wants to be good in the box. She’s been everything I’ve wanted up to this point.”
At the end of her futurity career, the people who saw her run will talk about her scoring, her speed and the way she finishes. And yes—this is another one the Relentless Remuda wants to keep in their barn for the new owners.
READ: From Brazile’s BFI Mount to Pride And Joyy Embryos: Solo Select’s May 31 Team Roping Lineup