Sunday, November 20, 2011
Harold Queen, who retired Champion Big Drama to Stonewall Farm this week, has also added millionaire Burning Roma to the farm's growing stallion roster. Burning Roma earned $1.5 million racing in Queen's colors, winning 13 races, 12 of them stakes. Among his victories, the son of Rubiano-While Rome Burns, by Overskate, counted the Gr. I Futurity at Belmont Park, the Gr. II Meadowlands Cup and the Gr. III Red Bank Handicap at Monmouth Park.
In addition, he was second in five stakes and third in seven, including such prestigious races as the Gr. I Haskell Invitational, Gr. I Carter Handicap, Gr. II Jerome Handicap, Gr. II Gulfstream Park Breeders' Cup Sprint Championship, Gr. II Richter Scale Breeders' Cup Sprint Championship Handicap and the Gr. II Maker's Mark Mile Stakes. Burning Roma also won the two premier events for 3-year-olds at Tampa Bay Downs, the Sam F. Davis Stakes and the now-Gr. II Tampa Bay Derby, during a season when the latter was a listed stakes.
Among Burning Roma's premier runners are current 2-year-olds Burning Time and Queen Drama, both racing in Queen's colors. Burning Time won the Foolish Pleasure Stakes and recently finished second in the Arthur I. Appleton Juvenile Turf Stakes - he's earned $117,360. Queen Drama won the Susan's Girl Stakes and was second in the Desert Vixen, and has earned $126,705. The stallion's progeny earnings for 2011 have reached nearly $1.3 million.