88 Ranch Sale at Solo Select: Sheik Jean Fly HTT Colts

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Bred to Run, Raised on Cattle: 88 Ranch Sells Sheik Jean Fly HTT Colts at Solo Select Nov. 22

Ranch-raised, run-bred Sheik Jean Fly HTT colts, Persnikitty and her babies sell in the 88 Ranch Special Sale at Solo Select on Nov. 22.

Wyoming’s 88 Ranch puts 23 lots built around Brazilian outcross sire Sheik Jean Fly HTT on the block in the 88 Ranch Special Sale at Solo Select on Sunday, Nov. 22, including the first full offering of the stallion’s riding-age colts.

88 Ranch Performance Horses special sale flyer for Sunday, Nov. 22, partnered with Solo Select and featuring stallion Sheik Jean Fly HTT — Photo courtesy of Solo Select Horses

Every horse in the catalog was raised on the Henry family’s six-generation cattle operation in Douglas, Wyo. The young ones went to remote cow camps to gather and doctor cattle before anybody set a pattern on them. Barrel racers love to argue cow-bred versus run-bred. The Henrys never had to pick.

“We try to make our horses multidimensional, because we not only have a job we need to accomplish, but we’re trying to produce athletes that can go on to the arena,” 88 Ranch owner Garrett Henry said.

That’s the part worth paying attention to if you’re shopping. Colt starter Troy Brandemuehl puts 120 days on the ranch’s young horses, then they spend months outside on cattle. A colt raised that way isn’t locked into one event. Point him at the barrels or the roping pen, and if the plan changes, he still has a job. The catalog even carries two rope-bred yearling stud colts alongside the barrel-bred lots.

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The Stallion: Sheik Jean Fly HTT

Sheik Jean Fly HTT isn’t a household name in American barrel racing yet, and that’s mostly timing. The 2014 sorrel came over from Brazil in 2021, and his first performance-age foals are 2027 futurity horses. This sale is the first real look at what he’s putting on the ground at riding age.

He’s by Victory Fly VM 01IBR, Brazil’s leading barrel sire with 462 money earners, out of Tiny Martha Jean by Marthas Six Moons, an NBHA Presidents Cup Super Show Champion and BFA Futurity top-10 finalist. Sheik backed that up himself in Brazil with multiple sub-17-second standard patterns, including a 16.65 as a 4-year-old, and an estimated $80,000-plus in earnings. Stateside, he was a Pink Buckle Round 1 Open 2D finalist and ran a 16.8 there with Kassie Mowry that a downed barrel kept out of the money.

Sheik Jean Fly HTT turning a barrel at the 2022 Pink Buckle — Photo courtesy of Solo Select Horses by Lexi Smith Media

The outcross is the other half of the pitch. Neither Victory Fly VM nor Marthas Six Moons shows up in most American running-bred mares, so Sheik carries none of the Dash Ta Fame, Frenchmans Guy or Corona Cartel blood that runs through the modern barrel pedigree. He’s 15 hands and 1,100 pounds, tested 7-panel N/N and EJSCA N/N, and his 2027 fee at Solo Select is $2,500.

“He’s an extreme athlete, very attractive pedigree, very well put together physically,” Henry said in Solo Select’s February announcement of the sale. “But what really makes him different is the kind of horses he produces. They’re incredibly trainable, very intelligent, and physically capable in a way that’s hard to describe until you see them move.”

Persnikitty Sells, and So Do Her Babies

Persnikitty turning a barrel at the 2023 BFA World Championship Futurity — Photo by Springer

The headliner on the mare side is Hip 201, Persnikitty, a $61,446 futurity earner with Hallie Hanssen. She’s a 2019 black mare by Slick By Design out of RC Back In Black by Ninety Nine Goldmine.

Her family is stacked. RC Back In Black qualified for the 2011 National Finals Rodeo with Jane Melby, won three rounds and finished sixth in the world. She earned more than $151,000 and has produced nearly $1 million, led by Blackkout, the Winners Version stallion who sold for $875,000 at the 2023 Pink Buckle sale, and Persnikitty’s full brother Slick N Black, the Fizz Bomb Futurity Champion and a $280,000-plus earner. RC Back In Black took the 2023 BFA Mare Power Award, and Slick By Design was QData’s No. 3 barrel horse sire in both 2024 and 2025, with progeny earnings approaching $11 million.

“What I would consider some of our very best pairs is what these colts are out of: My Lady Bug Leo, LLP Streakin Dolly,” Henry said. “Persnikitty, we’re putting her in the sale, which won over $60,000 in the barrel futurities, and some of her babies.”

Hip 155, a dark bay colt by Sheik Jean Fly HTT out of Persnikitty, standing in a pasture — Photo courtesy of Solo Select Horses

Persnikitty’s 2026 bay colt by Sheik Jean Fly HTT sells as Hip 155, and a 2027 full-sibling embryo sells as Hip 101.

The Rest of the Band

The other dams bring real pedigree and real money. My Lady Bug Leo (Shawne Bug Leo) earned $77,635 and has produced $43,624, and LLP Streakin Dolly (Streakin Again) earned $37,655. Streakin Easy April and French Streakin Lizzy are A Streak Of Fling daughters. Salty Rita and Peppermint Mocha are by Blazin Jetolena, First To Perk and TBR Royal Perks are by Dash For Perks, and Guyz Smooth Amber and A Pepper Smoothie are by A Smooth Guy. KVN Little Sister is by Corona Cartel, and RSR Speed Com Dash is by PC Redwood Manny.

The Riding-Age Colts

Nine 2- and 3-year-olds sell, and seven of them are by Sheik Jean Fly HTT. The catalog lists pedigree, height and weight, and vet statements and radiographs are posted on every lot.