Conquest Mo Money cost Tom and Sandy McKenna just $8,500 six months ago when they snagged him as an unraced 2-year-old out of a dispersal at the Keeneland November breeding stock sale in Kentucky.
Little did the Colorado ranch owners know they were hitching their wagons to a budding star, the first elite horse of their 13 years in Thoroughbred horse racing and one that will take them to the $1.5-million Preakness Stakes on Saturday at Pimlico Race Course.
To Tom McKenna, Conquest Mo Money was a nice prospect for New Mexico, where their Judge Lanier Racing is based, with the stable name as an homage to his grandfather.