by Michael Burns

Symphony Sid, who set a stakes record in the 2006 Carleton F. Burke Handicap (G3), has been retired and will begin stud duty at Nino Nuccios's Haras Oropal in Venezuela.

Bred in Kentucky by the legendary William S. Farish and Ogden Phipps, Symphony Sid won five of 23 starts and earned $191,240, topped by his front-running victory in last year’s Carleton F. Burke during the Oak Tree meeting at Santa Anita Park.

The seven-year-old Unbridled horse covered 1 1/2 miles in a stakes-record 2:24.18 on firm turf, besting the previous mark set by Dernier Empereur in 1996.

The chestnut horse also finished third in the 2006 San Quentin Stakes at Golden Gate Fields.

A grandson of champion producer Hum Along, Symphony Sid is out of the unraced A.P. Indy mare Happy Tune and is a half brother to multiple Grade 3 winner and Grade 2-placed High Cotton, who earned $456,044.

Haras Oropal’s stallion roster for the underway Northern Hemisphere season also includes Fast As a Cat, Solitary Vision, Glyndebourne, and Seattle Mirage. Dr. Javier Ignacio Farache brokered the deal for Symphony Sid.

Michael Burns is a South America-based Thoroughbred Times correspondent