by Michael Burns

Florida-based stallion Put It Back will shuttle to Julio Bozano’s Haras Santa Maria de Araras in Mar de Plata, Argentina, for the 2008 Southern Hemisphere breeding season.

A ten-year-old by Honour and Glory out of the winning Exuberant mare Miss Shoplifter, Put It Back is the sire of 15 stakes winners in his first three crops, including Grade 1 winner In Summation, multiple graded stakes winner Smokey Stover, Brazilian champion Nitido, and five other group or graded stakes winners.

Put It Back will shuttle to Argentina in June following his stud duties this season at Bridlewood Farm in Ocala, where he stands for $7,500.

Dual hemisphere sire Put It Back entered stud at Bridlewood Farm in 2002 and has previously shuttled to Bozano’s Haras Santa Maria de Araras Farm in Brazil. Put It Back has sired 105 winners from 149 starters that have earned $7,040,549 through March 22.

Put It Back won five of seven career starts, including both the Riva Ridge (G2) and Best Turn Stakes in 2001.

Michael Burns is a South America-based Thoroughbred Times correspondent