We recently acquired the $200k earner Lacie Be Good on behalf of CJT Stables, LLC, with the plan of breeding her to a New York stallion for her maiden cover in 2025, and believe that she’ll be an excellent fit for the state’s reigning leading sire, Central Banker.
Although it took Lacie Be Good a while to find her stride (from her first five starts, all in tough maiden special weight company, she managed just a single 3rd-place finish), once she put it all together she proved to be a quick and talented runner. After she broke her maiden by 3-1/4 lengths going 6-1/2 furlongs, she reeled off four straight allowance victories at 7-1/2 furlongs (by 8 lengths), at 7-1/2 furlongs (by 4-1/2 lengths), at 7 furlongs (by a half-length), and going 1-1/16 miles (by 3-1/4 lengths). She then just missed black-type at Pimlico and Prairie Meadows. Her first four wins all came at Delta Downs for Tom Amoss, and her final victory was at Oaklawn for a $140k purse.
Lacie Be Good earned a total of $203,585, and her Equibase Speed Figures got as high as a 101. So she had ability, and also has the pedigree to go with it.
Her sire, Good Magic, is one of the rising young stars among the stallion ranks. A son of leading classic sire Curlin, Good Magic was the Eclipse Champion 2YO of his generation, and he sired Kentucky Derby winner Mage in his first crop and Belmont winner Dornoch (plus Grade 1 winner Muth) from his second crop, and will stand for an advertised fee of $125,000 in 2025 — so he’s well on his way to taking up his sire’s mantle among classic influences.
Lacie Be Good’s dam, meanwhile, was the black-type winner Lacie Slew (by Mineshaft), who is the dam of seven other foals, all of which have raced and five of which have won, including the six-figure earner Boss Cara. Second dam Lacie Girl (by Editor’s Note), was a multiple black-type winner and Grade 3-placed, and has also produced the black-type winner Prettypriceygirl (she in turn the dam of G3 winner Big Call).
So this is a deep, classy family leaving no doubt as to where Lacie Be Good got her ability from.
She’s also a good-sized, well-made filly with plenty of leg, and as such will be perfectly well-suited to Central Banker, who (like his own sire, Speightstown, did) benefits from a taller mate.
Central Banker is a perennial leading sire in New York, and as such is thoroughly proven — which is something we always prefer for a young mare, especially when the owner is breeding to race, as is the plan for CJT.
Coming off another year in which he topped the state sire list, Central Banker now has 17 career black-type winners to his credit (good for 5.1% of his runners), plus another 18 black-type placed runners. His lifetime AEI of 1.29 is well above his CI of 1.12, meaning he consistently moves his mares up, and his runners’ average earnings sits above $80k. He gets versatile, consistent types, and is exactly the type you want to start off a young mare with.
So far, Central Banker has sired three foals out of mares by Good Magic’s sire Curlin, and all three of those foals are winners — which is about as strong a start as you could ask for. He’s also had success with mares from the A.P. Indy sire-line, like Lacie Be Good’s dam.
So all the signs point to a successful pairing here, and we look forward to a quick and durable foal to rack up NYB bonuses over a long career!