Champion and multiple champion sire Separatist will stand the 2026 season at Louisiana Center for Equine Reproduction (LACER) in Opelousas, Louisiana.

© Don Shugart

By StallioneSearch

OPELOUSAS, LA—JUNE 20, 2025—Champion racehorse and elite stallion Separatist, whose progeny have earned over $26.4 million, will stand the 2026 breeding season at Louisiana Center for Equine Reproduction (LACER) in Opelousas, Louisiana. His stud fee will remain $2,500, with limited cooled semen available.

Currently ranked as the 20th all-time leading sire of money earners, Separatist has sired 22 crops to race, producing 791 winners—an impressive 63% win rate—and 167 stakes horses, equating to 14% stakes performers. His starters average over $21,000 in earnings each.

"I can remember being just nine or ten years old, staying up late to watch Separatist race at Los Alamitos," said Stephen Deville, breeding manager at LACER. "I’ve had tremendous respect for this horse—watching him emerge as a leading sire early on and later gain prominence as a top broodmare sire. It’s a real honor to stand him in his twilight stud years here at LACER."

Deville expressed his gratitude to Guy Peixoto Jr. for the opportunity to collaborate on this new chapter for the stallion, to Zerlotti Genetics for maintaining Separatist in excellent condition at 28 years of age, and to Clayton Baker of 4B Transportation for ensuring his safe arrival in Louisiana.

Moonist, by Separatist, defeating world champion Heza Dasha Fire in the Grade 1 Los Alamitos Winter Championship. © Scott Martinez Photo

Owned by a syndicate, Separatist is the sire of numerous standouts, including AQHA Racing World Champion DM Shicago, who earned $1,873,730; 3-time AQHA Racing Champion Moonist SI 101, who recorded 24 wins and earnings of $878,468; Rainbow Derby (G1) winner Separate Bet with $799,481; AQHA Racing Champion and G1 sire Inseperable with $672,756; G3 winner and G1 sire Separate Interest with $486,781; G3 winner and Los Alamitos track record holder Divide The Cash with $448,643; G3 winner Separatist Firstdown SI 109, who won 11 races and earned $436,117; and G3 winner Myst Fit SI 97, with 7 wins and $258,379.

AQHA Racing World Champion DM Shicago winning the Grade 1 All American Derby at Ruidoso Downs.
© Ruidoso Downs

On the racetrack, Separatist compiled 20 top-three finishes in 24 starts and earned $899,044. He was named the 1999 AQHA Racing Champion 2-Year-Old Colt and the 2000 Champion 3-Year-Old and Champion 3-Year-Old Colt. His major victories include the Governor’s Cup Futurity (G1), Golden State Derby (G1), Governor’s Cup Derby (G1), California Sires’ Cup Futurity (G2), PCQHRA Breeders’ Derby (G2), Z Wayne Griffin Directors Stakes (G3), and Jet Deck Handicap. He was also second in the Los Alamitos Million Futurity (G1), Golden State Futurity (G1), and Los Alamitos Derby (G1), and a finalist in the Champion of Champions (G1), Kindergarten Futurity (G1), and Ed Burke Memorial Futurity (G1).

Separatist is out of the prolific broodmare Separate Ways, a daughter of Hempen (TB). Separate Ways produced 16 ROM runners, including champion Way Maker ($617,444), G1 winner and multiple stakes sire Make It Anywhere ($411,006), stakes winner Making Merri ($59,182), stakes-placed Making Ways ($93,894), and Secret Ways ($35,598). She is also the granddam or great-granddam of several top runners such as Ruidoso Futurity (G1) winner The A List SI 101 ($316,997), G1 winner Kingman Kid SI 97 ($531,365), G1 winner Hulapai SI 101 ($204,437), G1 winner Snitcher SI 104 ($261,181), and R-G1 winner Amending The Bar SI 99 ($227,866).

The second dam, Jet Together SI 93, a daughter of Jet Deck, was a multiple stakes producer and part of a powerful family line that includes G1 winner Forget It SI 96 ($595,089), G1 winner Forgive Him SI 96 ($205,576), G2 winner Rite Regal SI 97 ($415,123), G1-placed Gulfstream Five SI 99 ($259,319), G1 winner Girl Secrets SI 99 ($177,552), and G1-placed Masherati B SI 89 ($136,650).

Contact Stephen Deville at (225) 202-2104 for breeding contracts or more information.