Hidden Brook Farm and Joseph McMahon have announced their five-time stakes winner Bank Sting has been retired from racing.
Bred in New York by her co-owner Joseph McMahon, Bank Sting won a pair of stakes at Belmont Park and was a three-time stakes winner and graded stakes placed over the Aqueduct Racetrack oval while bankrolling $664,050 in earnings. One of her career highlights came in the listed $120,000 Heavenly Prize Stakes against open company at one mile last year.
The bay daughter of Central Banker out of the Precise End mare Bee in a Bonnet won eight of her 15 lifetime starts, stakes from six furlongs to one-mile and was only off of the board once during her career for trainer John Terranova. Two-time New York champion sire Central Banker stands at Joseph McMahon's McMahon of Saratoga Thoroughbreds.
“We had a terrific run with Bank Sting from her first start to her last. She always gave a 100 percent and we could rely on her for that extra effort in the heat of battle. Our partnership is honored that Bank Sting has been recognized twice as champion older mare and sprinter by the New York Thoroughbred Breeders,” said McMahon.
“Bank Sting is currently being turned out at Hidden Brook Farm in Kentucky. She's remarkably sound and is enjoying retirement. With the breeding season this far along, we'll weigh all of our options and possibly point her to one of the November sales as a maiden broodmare prospect then,” added Hidden Brook racing manager Dan Hall.
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