by Michael Burns

Grade 1 winner Roman Ruler, a career earner of $1,220,800, will shuttle to South America for the upcoming Southern Hemisphere breeding season to stand at Damasia and Pablo Zabaleta’s Haras Vacacion in Argentina.

A six-year-old by Fusaichi Pegasus out of multiple Grade 1 producer Silvery Swan, by Silver Deputy, Roman Ruler stands at Hill ‘n’ Dale Farms in Lexington for $30,000. A half brother to Grade 1 winner and sire El Corredor, Roman Ruler has 155 yearlings in his first crop.

Roman Ruler won five of 10 career starts, including four graded stakes victories. Roman Ruler captured the 2004 Norfolk (G2) and Best Pal (G2) Stakes as a juvenile and won the $1,015,000 Haskell Invitational Handicap (G1) and Dwyer Stakes (G2) as a three-year-old in 2005.

Michael Burns is a South America-based Thoroughbred Times correspondent