Central Banker: Grade 2 winner by the sire of Munnings

CENTRAL BANKER (USA) - 2010 bay horse

Central Banker, a son of sprint champion and notably successful stallion Speightstown (by Gone West), is a McMahon of Saratoga Thoroughbreds stallion, he covered 115 mares in his first season and 99 in his second.

He was a stakes-placed dual winner as a two-year-old, a five and a half-furlong listed scorer on turf and placed in both the Grade 1 Malibu Stakes and Grade 1 King's Bishop Stakes at three, and he took the Grade 2 Churchill Downs Stakes over seven furlongs as a four-year-old.

He is out of the multiple stakes winner Rhum (by Go For Gin), which makes him a half-brother to the Grade 2 Smile Sprint Handicap scorer Gantry (by Pulpit), and the best of his dam's siblings is Private Emblem (by Our Emblem), winner of the Grade 2 Arkansas Derby in 2002 but, sadly, fatally injured two years later.

You have to go back to the fifth generation to find the next blacktype winners in the family although they include the Grade 1 Metropolitan Handicap winner and leading New York sire Dixie Brass (by Dixieland Band).

Stallion sons of Speightstown include Group 1 scorer Lord Shanakill (sire of Group 1 Prince of Wales's Stakes winner My Dream Boat) and, more notably, Ashford Stud's Grade 2 winner Munnings, whose string of stakes-winning offspring include the Grade 1 scorers I'm A Chatterbox and El Deal.

Central Banker should be capable of getting winners in all age groups and, given his racing record and pedigree, he looks likely to get his best results from sprinters and milers. With the right mares, however, it is possible that he could get some who will stay 10 furlongs.

CENTRAL BANKER (USA) - b.2010 - Speightstown - Rhum, 4 wins inc Churchill Downs Stakes (Gr2), Quick Call Stakes (L), 2nd Malibu Stakes (Gr1), Thanksgiving Handicap (L), Kentucky Downs Juvenile Stakes (L), 3rd King's Bishop Stakes (Gr1). Sire in USA. First foals in 2016.

YEARLINGS CATALOGUED:
f - Carly Lee (by Broad Brush)     Fasig-Tipton Midlantic     Oct     $10,000
f - Double Dinghy Day (by Forestry)     Fasig-Tipton Midlantic     Oct     not sold
c - Enniskillen (by Desert Warrior)     Fasig-Tipton NY     Aug     $110,000
f - Expressly Yours (by Big Brown)     Keeneland     Sept     withdrawn
f - Fortheloveof Anna (by Pleasant Tap)     Fasig-Tipton NY     Aug     $30,000
c - Gala Regatta (by Boston Harbor)     Fasig-Tipton NY     Aug     withdrawn
c - Gala Regatta (by Boston Harbor)     Fasig-Tipton Midlantic     Oct     not sold
f - Ghost Friendly (by Ghostzapper)     Fasig-Tipton NY     Aug     $60,000
f - Hemet Humor (by Distorted Humor)     Fasig-Tipton Midlantic     Oct     $35,000
f - Home Ice (by Iam The Iceman)     Fasig-Tipton NY     Aug     $50,000
c - Kat Nan Do (by Formal Gold)     Fasig-Tipton NY     Aug     $90,000
f - Lifelong (by Vindication)     Fasig-Tipton Midlantic     Oct     $18,000
c - Making A Point (by Freud)     Fasig-Tipton KY     July     not sold
f - Mlle De Paris (by Silver Charm)     Fasig-Tipton Midlantic     Oct     $5,000
c - Near Bethany (by Affirmed)     Fasig-Tipton NY     Aug     withdrawn
c - One Wise Cowgirl (by Wiseman's Ferry)     Fasig-Tipton NY     Aug     $40,000
c - Our Miss Jones (by Alphabet Soup)     Fasig-Tipton NY     Aug     $60,000
f - Private Escort (by Dance With Ravens)     Fasig-Tipton NY     Aug     not sold
c - Quietly Elegant (by Quiet American)     Keeneland     Sept     $37,000
f - Roses For The Star (by North Light)     Fasig-Tipton NY     Aug     $12,000
f - Savasana (by Scatmandu)     Fasig-Tipton NY     Aug     $85,000
c - Sea Wind (by Northern Afleet)     Fasig-Tipton NY     Aug     not sold
c - Sister In Arms (by Colonel John)     Fasig-Tipton NY     Aug     $85,000
f - Sleek (by Bernardini)     Fasig-Tipton NY     Aug     $41,000
f - Turducken (by Maria's Mon)     Fasig-Tipton NY     Aug     not sold
f - Turducken (by Maria's Mon)     Fasig-Tipton Midlantic     Oct     not sold
c - Typhoon Teri (by Stormy Atlantic)     Keeneland     Sept     $110,000
f - Wouldthisbemagic (by Clever Trick)     Fasig-Tipton KY     July     $70,000
f - Yellow Flag (by Our Emblem)     Fasig-Tipton NY     Aug     ​$35,000