Select Genes Produces High-Seller, $1.25 Million in Sales in Heber City
- Maleah Walker
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When Relentless Empire sold for $900,000 last night in Heber City, she didn't just top the sale, she headlined a $1,250,000 day for Select Genes' mares.
The Old West Rope Horse Sale didn't just move horses, it once again moved the needle on what serious buyers believe the rope horse futurity industry is worth.
Relentless Empire, 2026 Old West Rope Horse Sale High-Seller. Photo by Team Roping Journal
Relentless Empire, by Show Me The Buckles out of Select Genes' mare Relentless Glory, was the high-seller of the day at $900,000. Relentless Glory, bred and raised by Trevor Brazile, is by Metallic Cat and has won over $40,000 per Equi-Stat, with real arena earnings that go well beyond that. Her dam, Z Oh Six, is a full sister to Deputy, the calf horse Brazile rode at the NFR for nearly a decade.
Relentless Glory, Dam of 2026 Old West Rope Horse Sale High-Seller. Photo by Solo Select Horses
Trevor Brazile and Miles Baker’s Relentless Remuda owned and consigned Relentless Empire in partnership with Jerad Wittwer. Empire sells to team roper Bryan Beaver, who will keep her in the Relentless Remuda program to keep developing and run at the huge money she is eligible for, including the Old West Futurities’ $1,000,000 sale grad incentive.
“(Bryan Beaver) told us, ‘I’ve got all the horses I need to rope on. I want a good mare, I want to raise some babies,'” Miles Baker said. “He knew that mare was special to us and a huge part of mine and Trevor’s program. That’s the one he wanted, and he picked a dang good one.”
Relentless Empire, 2026 Old West Rope Horse Sale High-Seller. Photo by Team Roping Journal
The other three Select Genes horses, Whizkey For The Queen at $60,000, Solo Tuff at $150,000, and Texas Reynn at $140,000, brought the day's total to $1.25 million.
Whizkey For The Queen, Solo Tuff, and Texas Reyn in the 2026 Old West Rope Horse Sale. Photos by Team Roping Journal
Hip 1, Whizkey For The Queen, by Whizkey N Diamonds out of Big Time Movie Star sold for $60,000. Big Time Movie Star, aka "Queen", became the all-time leading rope horse mare in the world per QData in March 2023, crossing $110,000 in lifetime earnings in just her first year competing. She was the 2022 APHA World Champion Open Heeling Horse and a Badlands Bit & Spur Futurity Champion under Brazile.
Hip 21, Solo Tuff, by Woody Be Tuff out of Carrera Cat sold for $150,000. Carrera Cat earned 167 AQHA points, was an AQHA High Point Open Heeling mare, and her foal page is hard to argue with. Her first foal was the 2020 Reno Snaffle Bit Futurity Champion, and in 2023 her filly broke the NRCHA Snaffle Bit Futurity Sale yearling record selling for $180,000.
Hip 41, Texas Reynn, by Metallic Cat out of Goodbye To The Reyn sold for $140,000. Goodbye To The Reyn was an NCHA money-earner herself and has gone on to produce over $334,000 in progeny earnings so far, led by NCHA Open Futurity finalist, Soulreyn.
Each sale further attested to the same philosophy: maternal genetics that have been tested, proven, and deliberately bred are what the industry is after.
In partnership with Relentless Remuda, Solo Select Horses also brought two mares that each hammered at $400,000. Show Me Relentless, by Show Me The Buckles and out of Bucks For Bullet, came with a backstory years in the making. Brazile first spotted Jake Cooper’s mare competing at the BFI, filed her away, and eventually got the cross he'd been waiting for. Sunset Blvd matched her dollar for dollar, which said as much about buyer confidence in the program as any single bid.
Sunset Blvd and Show Me Relentless in the 2026 Old West Rope Horse Sale High-Seller. Photos by Team Roping Journal
The rope horse futurity world has grown fast, and the buyers at the top of the market have grown right along with them. The programs winning at this level are stacking maternal genetics and proven sires to raise horses that are bred from the very beginning to compete and last. Pedigree still matters, but pedigree plus depth of planning is what's commanding the biggest bids.
