Solo Select · Gainesville, Texas
World champions, record breakers and current leading sires across heading, heeling, breakaway and tie-down—backed by industry-leading horsemen and programs.
18 current incentive sires · live fees, availability and stallion breeding contracts
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How the modern rope horse is evolving
Roping is developing rapidly. With every generation, we are seeing influence come from more directions—and the horses become even better athletes, more specialized for the job in front of them.
Some sires made their names in the roping. Others were winners in cutting or cow horse, and breeders are now breeding rope-horse mares to them and developing their offspring for the roping pen. Some found their success on the track and bring the run a head horse needs. Read below to see how each type can contribute to the next great rope horses being developed at Solo Select.
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Their own heading, heeling or tie-down record is the proof. Pride And Joyy, The Darkk Side, Dirty Fling, Time To Glo and This Catt Shines give breeders results earned in the events the foal is being bred to perform.
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These stallions earned their own records in cutting or reined cow horse. Breeders are breeding rope-horse mares to them, then putting the offspring into heading, heeling, breakaway and tie-down programs to add cow, feel, trainability and stop. Once In A Blu Boon sired AQHA Junior Heading World Champion The Darkk Side, and Woody Be Tuff finished 2025 as QData's No. 3 team-roping sire. The proof is in the rope horses they have sired, while their own show records remain exactly what they were: cutting or cow horse.
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A head horse has to get there. Running blood can add acceleration, stride and the ability to reach cattle while seeking to preserve the mare's cow and rate. Sheik Jean Fly HTT brings a documented barrel and running foundation for breeders who need more run in the cross.
2027 Roping Incentive sire comparison
These 18enrolled sires include proven roping performers, proven rope-horse sires, developing horses and performance outcrosses. Incentive enrollment is not itself a roping record; each evidence label tells you exactly what supports that stallion's place in the roster.
Live roster data last changed September 3, 2026
Editorial records reviewed August 2, 2026 · Solo Select Stallion Office
Showing 18 of 18 enrolled sires
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Investigate for · Rope-horse prospect · Incentive eligible
Brandon Dufurrena
A true blue roan by Once In A Blu Boon and out of $521,000 producer Lil Autumn Splendor. His record across NCHA Open, Non-Pro, Amateur and Youth competition gives breeders a documented mind-and-rideability case when they want Once In A Blu Boon genetics on Cat mares.
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02 · Active all-around development
LTE $76,563 · HOMOZYGOUS ROAN
Fresh/cooled · Frozen · ICSI
Breeding fee: 2027 Fee: $2,000 · $1,500 ICSI
Investigate for · Tie-down · Breakaway · Cutting
Adan Banuelos · Josh Townsend
$76,563 in cutting earnings, primarily under Adan Banuelos, followed by calf- and breakaway-horse training. He is now showing with Josh Townsend and is homozygous roan.
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03 · Multi-event performance
LTE $9,532 · & 54 AQHA Points
Fresh/cooled · Frozen · ICSI
Breeding fee: 2027 Fee: $1,750
Investigate for · Heading · Reined cow horse · Cutting
Zeb Corvin · Brad Lund · Tate Kirchenschlager
A son of Woody Be Tuff out of $1 million producer ARC Catty Dual, with a winning record across cutting, reined cow horse and roping. Brad Lund finished his cow-horse and roping education; he is now with Tate Kirchenschlager.
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04 · Own performance · First crop in training
Multiple ARHFA Champion · 4X Royal Crown Champion
Fresh/cooled · Frozen · ICSI
Breeding fee: 2027 Fee: $2,500
Investigate for · Heading · Heeling
Trevor Brazile · Miles Baker · Ty Benson · Tate Kirchenschlager
A multiple ARHFA champion and four-time Royal Crown champion from the Relentless Remuda program. His first crop is now in training with Ty Benson, Tate Kirchenschlager, Miles Baker and Trevor Brazile ahead of the 2027 futurities.
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05 · Elite cow-horse record · Steer stopping
LTE $212,844 · NRCHA Western Open Derby Champion · NRCHA Open Hackamore Reserve World Champion
Fresh/cooled · Frozen · ICSI
Breeding fee: 2027 Fee: $1,800
Investigate for · Steer stopping · Cow horse
Corey Cushing · Matt Koch
A $212,844 NRCHA Western Open Derby Champion and Open Hackamore Reserve World Champion. Corey Cushing also showed him through the steer-stopping phase of the World's Greatest Horseman, giving breeders performance evidence beyond a pedigree claim.
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06 · Current leading rope-horse sire
2020 APHA World Champion – Tie-Down Roping
Fresh/cooled · Frozen · ICSI
Breeding fee: 2027 Fee: $2,500
Investigate for · Heading · Breakaway · Tie-down
Wes Ashlock · Cody McCartney
The 2020 APHA Tie-Down Roping World Champion became the leading sire at the 2026 Gold Buckle Spring Showdown: his get earned $148,593 and finished first and second overall. Kryptoniite won the 4-&-Under Heading with Trevor Brazile; Thiccthirty and Tom Cats R Popular added breakaway and tie-down money.
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07 · Rope-horse offspring in competition
LTE $345,159 · NCHA Open World Champion
Fresh/cooled · Frozen · ICSI
Breeding fee: 2027 Fee: $5,000
Investigate for · Heading · Cutting foundation
Tim Smith · Beau Galyean
A $345,159 NCHA Open World Champion whose young offspring are entering the rope-horse pipeline. Metallics Ace competed in the 2026 Old West pre-futurity heading with Billie Jack Saebens.
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08 · Championship cow-horse foundation
LTE $196,245 · NRCHA Snaffle Bit Futurity Open Champion
Fresh/cooled · Frozen · ICSI
Breeding fee: 2027 Fee: $2,000
Investigate for · Rope-horse prospect · Reined cow horse
Jake Gorrell
The $196,245 NRCHA Snaffle Bit Futurity Open Champion with Jake Gorrell and National Hackamore Open Champion. He brings an all-Open record, Bet Hesa Cat cow sense and Miss Plain Plain's proven performance family to a rope-horse cross.
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09 · QData earnings · World championship
LTE $435,487 · Team Roping Journal's winningest futurity rope horse · AQHA World Champion - Junior Heeling
Fresh/cooled · Frozen · ICSI
Breeding fee: 2027 Fee: $5,000
Investigate for · Heeling · Reined cow horse
Trevor Brazile · Miles Baker · Jeremy Buhler · Chris Dawson
QData lists $435,487 in lifetime earnings. Team Roping Journal identified him as the winningest futurity rope horse, and he won the 2024 AQHA Junior Heeling World Championship after beginning his career in reined cow horse.
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10 · Run-horse outcross
Estimated LTE $80,000+ | Imported from Brazil
Fresh/cooled · Frozen · ICSI
Breeding fee: 2027 Fee: $2,500
Investigate for · Heading speed · Barrel foundation
A Brazilian futurity and derby performer with multiple sub-17-second standard-pattern runs, including a 16.6. By leading Brazilian barrel sire Victory Fly VM, he offers documented speed and an outcross for breeders who need more run in a rope-horse prospect.
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11 · Current head-horse campaign
Frozen only
Breeding fee: 2027 booking information coming soon
Investigate for · Heading · Futurity
Bubba Garcia · Madison Garcia
A Stevie Rey Von son campaigning at rope-horse futurities in 2026. Madison Garcia finished as the third-high callback in the 2025 Riata Buckle 12.5 Championship on him after his transition from cutting and reined cow horse to heading.
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12 · Rope-horse offspring in leading programs
LTE $260,124 · 2017 NCHA Futurity Reserve Champion
Fresh/cooled · Frozen · ICSI
Breeding fee: 2027 Fee: $2,000
Investigate for · Breakaway · Tie-down · Team roping
Lee Francois · James Payne
A $260,123 NCHA Futurity Reserve Champion whose rope-horse offspring are now in the programs of World Champion breakaway ropers Lari Dee Guy and Hope Thompson, World Champion calf roper Fred Whitfield and rope-horse trainer Tyler Worley.
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13 · Own world-championship record
LTE $250,072 · AQHA Open World Champion – Heading
Fresh/cooled · Frozen · ICSI
Breeding fee: 2027 booking information coming soon
Investigate for · Heading
Trevor Brazile · Miles Baker
The $250,072 AQHA Junior Heading World Champion and 2024 ARHFA Houston heading champion. He is by Once In A Blu Boon and out of 2019 PRCA Heel Horse of the Year DT Sugar Chex Whiz—a rope-horse cross designed on both sides.
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14 · Proven performance outcross
LTE $148,857 · 6th NCHA Open Futurity · Arbuckle Mountain Open Futurity Open Derby Champion
Frozen only
Breeding fee: 2027 Fee: $1,750
Investigate for · Rope-horse prospect · Cutting foundation
$148,857 in NCHA earnings with an Open Futurity finals record and major-event championships. A Dual Rey out of a Smart Little Lena daughter, offered as a frozen-semen outcross with Riata Buckle and Solo Rope Horse Incentive eligibility.
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15 · Purpose-bred rope-horse crosses
LTE $342,528 · NCHA Horse of the Year & NCHA Hall of Fame
Fresh/cooled · Frozen · ICSI
Breeding fee: 2027 Fee: $6,500 · $5,000 ICSI
Investigate for · Heading prospect · Cutting foundation
Wesley Galyean
The $342,528 NCHA Horse of the Year and Hall of Fame stallion. His early rope-horse direction includes a planned cross with $592,000 running mare Tres Chasin Babe specifically for head-horse potential—cow, speed, bone and trainability selected with a job in mind.
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16 · Own world-show record
AQHA Reserve World Champion – Tie Down
Fresh/cooled · Frozen · ICSI
Breeding fee: 2027 Fee: $1,500
Investigate for · Tie-down
Cody McCartney · Tavis Walters
AQHA Level 2 Junior Tie-Down Roping Reserve World Champion and Level 3 World Show finalist. His first foals are on the ground, giving breeders a direct tie-down record backed by WR This Cats Smart and Shining Spark genetics.
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17 · Own all-around earnings record
LTE $308,354 · 2023 QData Highest-Earning Rope Horse
Fresh/cooled · Frozen · ICSI
Breeding fee: 2027 Fee: $3,500
Investigate for · Heading · Heeling
Bobby Lewis · Trevor Brazile
The 2023 QData highest-earning rope horse, twice Gold Buckle Superhorse and a $308,354 earner. Bred, raised and trained by Bobby Lewis, then campaigned through his final futurity season by Trevor Brazile.
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18 · Current leading team-roping sire
LTE $351,063 · Sire of over $16,000,000 in Earners
Fresh/cooled · Frozen · ICSI
Breeding fee: 2027 Fee: $6,500 · $4,500 ICSI
Investigate for · Heading · Heeling · All-around
Austin Shepard · Don Crumpler
Shown by Austin Shepard and Don Crumpler before becoming a $16 million-plus sire and QData's No. 3 team-roping sire of 2025. Twenty-three money earners have earned $571,866 across heading and heeling, led by NFR round winner Liken It Tuff and Woodie.
More than a breeding. Another way to win.
That means breeding with Solo Select is not only a choice about genetics. It gives you another way to get paid on a rope horse you own or ride. The first running paid a record $581,580 in 2025, including $100,000 to both the heading and heeling champions. The 2027 futurity has a minimum $620,000 added before entry fees; the projected $620,000 Solo Roping Incentive contribution is part of that event total. Entry fees build the purse further, so the final payout remains to be determined.
$100,000
2025 Heeling Champion
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Roping stallion FAQ
The current Solo Select Roping Incentive roster includes Bleu On Black, Boons Reflections, CR Get Tuff, Dirty Fling, Hesa Dual Bet, Metallic Cattack, Metallics MVP, Plain Catty, Pride And Joyy, Sheik Jean Fly HTT, Some Kinda Stevie, The Animal, The Darkk Side, The Reyl McCoy, Third Edge, This Catt Shines, Time To Glo, Woody Be Tuff. This page updates from the same live roster used by the stallion office.
The roster includes stallions with their own heading, heeling and tie-down records; established sires with current rope-horse earners; young sires whose first offspring are in leading programs; and performance outcrosses selected for specific rope-horse goals. Every entry above states which kind of evidence applies so a cutting or cow-horse title is never presented as a roping title.
The individual records include Austin Shepard and Don Crumpler on Woody Be Tuff, Jake Gorrell on Plain Catty, Wesley Galyean on Third Edge, Lee Francois and James Payne on The Animal, Tim Smith and Beau Galyean on Metallics MVP, and Wes Ashlock and Cody McCartney on Metallic Cattack. The roster keeps those stallion riders separate from the trainers and competitors currently developing or showing their offspring.
Start with the mare and pin down the goal for the cross. Decide whether the target is heading, heeling, breakaway or tie-down; whether the foal is intended to keep or sell; and which physical, mental, pedigree and market traits the stallion must contribute. Then compare documented records, offspring evidence, incentive eligibility, breeding method and the complete contract.
This page reads the same published stallion records and active incentive enrollments used by Solo Select's main roster and individual stallion profiles. When the office updates an enrollment, fee, availability or published stallion, this page updates from that source of truth.
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