McMahon Of Saratoga Adds Provocateur To 2025 Roster

Wednesday, December 4, 2024 | 12:19 pm

#4 Provocateur with Jockey Jairo Rendon riding won the $100,000 Jersey Shore Sakes at Monmouth Park Racetrack in Oceanport, NJ on Saturday August 6, 2022. Photo By Ryan Denver/EQUI-PHOTO

McMahon of Saratoga Thoroughbreds has added Provocateur (by Into Mischief) for the 2025 breeding season with a stud fee set at $5,000 LFSN, according to a press release from the New York stallion farm on Wednesday.

The 5-year-old will stand alongside three-time leading New York sire Central Banker and nationally ranked second crop sire Solomini. The farm will hold their annual holiday stallion show on Saturday, Dec. 14 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. ET., and all three stallions will be available for inspection.

Bred by Kingswood Farm and David Egan, Provocateur was a $600,000 Keeneland September buy for Spendthrift Farm and MyRacehorse. The Todd Pletcher trainee won the Hutcheson Stakes at Gulfstream Park and finished third in the GI Woody Stephens Stakes. He was purchased for $200,000 by McMahon during 2022 Keeneland November at the Horses of Racing Age Sale.

2025 Fees:
Central Banker: $7,500
Solomini: $7,500
Provocateur: $5,000