The Grade 3-winning Saratoga 2YO Brazen Persuasion is now up to six winners from six foals to race in her broodmare career, including the black-type placed Ruggs and the 17-time winner He’s In Charge. Now in the lucrative New York-bred program, she will have a chance to produce another talented, hard-knocking runner after she visits the perennial leading Empire State stallion Central Banker in 2026.
Central Banker is now up to 18 black-type winners over his stud career, with another 19 black-type placed runners to his credit. The average earnings of those runners is a stout $83k, and his AEI is above his mare’s CI, which is a ratio in which we put a lot of stock. Especially for a broodmare owner that anticipates breeding to race locally, where purse parity for NY-breds and double breeder bonuses for state-sired runners are in play, Central Banker’s consistency and durability is hard to beat. With 77 registered 2YOs of 2026, his profile isn’t likely to diminish anytime soon.
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The Central Banker foals tend to need a little bit of time to find their stride — rather in the mold of his own sire, Speightstown — so by sending a graded stakes-winning 2YO his way, we’re hoping to sharpen that foal up a bit.
Physically this is a nice pairing of like-to-like, with both mare and stallion being stout, well-made horses with plenty of substance.
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The Speightstown/Indian Charlie cross has produced G1 winner Switzerland and black-type winner Wyatt’s Town, plus five more black-type earners from less than 50 runners, so those are solid enough statistics. And Brazen Persuasion’s first foal was a $225k yearling, $650k 2YO, and five-time winner by Speightstown himself (one of a half-dozen six-figure sales horses that she’s produced), while a G3-placed filly by Speightstown appears under her second dam, too.
So this is a matchup that has a lot of factors in its favor, and has every right to produce a successful, hard-knocking NY-bred runner that will provide its breeder with bonus checks for years to come!