McMahon of Saratoga goes to $400,000 to acquire Grade 2 winner Central Banker

(Edited Press Release)

Grade 2 winner Central Banker will enter stud next year in New York at McMahon of Saratoga Thoroughbreds[1], which purchased the 4-year-old son of Speightstown for $400,000 during Monday’s seventh session of Keeneland’s November Breeding Stock Sale (Hip 2494[2]). The amount was the highest price paid during the session.

Claiborne Farm, agent, consigned Central Banker, the third-to-last horse offered Monday. He is out of the stakes-winning Go for Gin mare Rhum and is a half-brother to Grade 2 winner Gantry and stakes-placed Song of Pirates.

Mike McMahon said the purchase price “was a little higher” than initially planned, “but it’s competitive to buy stallions. He’s a very nice Speightstown, just a beautifully balanced horse.”

Among Central Banker’s four wins in 13 starts was this year’s Grade 2 Churchill Downs Stakes. In 2013, he was second in the Grade 1 Malibu and third in the Grade 1 Foxwoods King’s Bishop. Central Banker earned $598,786.

With the purchase of Central Banker, McMahon of Saratoga Thoroughbreds was the session’s leading buyer.

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