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Liam’s Map’s Beau Liam Brilliant Again at the Spa

8th-Saratoga, $105,000, Alw (NW2$X)/Opt. Clm ($80,000), 8-29, 3yo/up, 6 1/2f, 1:15.05, ft, 6 lengths.
BEAU LIAM (c, 3, Liam's Map–Belle of Perintown {GSW, $265,465}, by Dehere) showed Sunday just how well-stocked the Steve Asmussen barn is with top sprinters, as he zipped away to his third win from as many tries as day after stablemates Jackie's Warrior (Maclean's Music) and Yaupon (Uncle Mo) annexed the GI H. Allen Jerkens Memorial S. and GI Forego S., respectively. A shoe-in for 'TDN Rising Star'-dom off a 7 1/2-length debut drubbing at Churchill May 29, the bay was even-money in one of the toughest first-level allowances here in recent memory July 17, and out-nosed promising Chad Brown pupil Witsel (Nyquist) to earn a gaudy 106 Beyer Speed Figure. Looking like lock on paper here, the 2-5 favorite was pursued by Night Time (Majesticperfection) through swift splits of :22.14 and :44.92. Asked to quicken after straightening for home, Beau Liam hit another gear and quickly scampered away from his competition to air by six lengths. The victory was the third straight on the card for Ricardo Santana, Jr., who also rode both of Asmussen's Grade I winners Saturday, along with his GI Runhappy Travers S. runner-up Midnight Bourbon (Tiznow). Asmussen trained Liam's Map's first two Grade I winners, Basin and Wicked Whisper, and was represented on Friday at Monmouth by the very impressive debut-winning turf sprinter Cheeky Chaps (Liam's Map). The winner is half to Tomlin (Distorted Humor), MSW & MGSP, $251,895; and Strike It Rich (Unbridled's Song), GSW, $193,966, plus unraced 2-year-old filly Ari Oakley (Gun Runner) and a yearling filly by Good Magic. Strike It Rich's New York-bred son Sea Foam (Medaglia d'Oro) took the Evan Shipman H. here by five lengths earlier this month. Sales history: $385,000 RNA Ylg '19 KEESEP. Lifetime Record: 3-3-0-0, $171,888. Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by TVG.
O/B-Stonestreet Thoroughbred Holdings LLC (KY); T-Steven M. Asmussen.

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Liam’s Map Gelding Tops Washington Summer Yearling Sale

A handsome gray gelding by top national sire Liam's Map topped the 92, after four outs, summer sale session yearlings at the WTBOA Sale held at Emerald Downs in Auburn, Wash., on a bright and sunny Aug. 24 afternoon.

Consigned by Dr. Duane and Susan Hopp's Castlegate Farm, trainer Sandi Gann, as agent, went to $47,000 to secure the promising runner for major British Columbia horseman Glen Todd and his North American Thoroughbred Horse Company.

Gann also bid $30,000 for a full-brother to Oregon champions O B Harbor and Calypsonoted on Todd's behalf. The Harbor the Gold—Flying Memo colt was consigned by Bret and Julie Christopherson with Bar C Racing Stables serving as their agent.

Castlegate Farm also offered a colt by first-crop sire Girvin out of $472,534 Saratoga stakes winner Jules N Rome which was purchased by Paul and Lori Heist's Grasshopper Racing Stable for $40,000.

Three other colts brought a price of $40,000 or more, including the second highest offering, another colt by the late Harbor the Gold out of 2015 Washington broodmare of the year Bahati. Consigned by the partnership of Pam and Neal Christopherson's Bar C Racing Stable and Melodie Bultena and Doak Walker's Desert Rose Racing, the full brother to a trio of Washington champions was purchased by Gerald Schneider's Riverbend Farm for $45,000.

California trainer Andy Mathis purchased the top-selling filly for $42,000. Consigned by Griffin Place as agent for the family of the late Karl Krieg, the daughter of Atta Boy Roy is out of a winning sister to three-time Washington champion Lady Rosberg. In addition, the mare's half-sister produced two-time Washington champion Risque's Legacy, by Atta Boy Roy.

A trio of fillies brought the next highest bids for a yearling distaffer. El Dorado Farms consigned a daughter of Coast Guard, a half-sister to 2020 co-Washington champion 2-year-old Dutton, which was purchased by Midwest trainer Valorie Lund, who trained the other half of the 2020 juvenile championship Bodenheimer.

California trainer Ed Moger went to $30,000 to buy a filly by sprint champion Runhappy out of $417,415 stakes winner Nuffsaid Nuffsaid from the Champion Sales consignment.

Chad Christensen, Emerald Downs' leading owner in 2019 and 2020, bid at the same level to acquire a Harbor the Gold half-sister to 2021 Santa Anita stakes winner Big City Lights. She was also consigned by Bar C Racing Stables.

Preliminary results show after 13 RNAs, 79 yearlings sold for a $1,079,000 gross (up 12.52 percent), a $13,190 average (up 12.78 percent) and a $10,000 median (up 42.86 percent).

Oregon resident Connie Erickson offered the highest broodmare bid, taking home nine-year-old stakes-placed Grand Yodeler, bred to Smiling Tiger, for $3,500. Grand Yodeler's colt by Smiling Tiger topped the 2020 WTBOA Sale. The chestnut mare also hails from the Champion Sales consignment.

To view the auction's full results, click here.

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Liam’s Map Gelding Tops WTBOA Summer Yearling Sale

A gelding by Liam's Map topped the Washington Thoroughbred Breeders & Owners Association (WTBOA) Summer Yearling and Mixed Sale Aug. 24. The Liam's Map yearling out of One Foxy Grey (Big Brown) brought $47,000 from trainer Sandi Gann as agent for British Columbia horseman Glen Todd and his North American Thoroughbred Horse Company. He was consigned by Dr. Duane and Susan Hopp's Castlegate Farm.

Preliminary results after the sale counted 79 yearlings sold for a $1,079,000, up 12.52% from the previous year. Average was $13,190 (up 12.78%) and median was $10,000 (up 42.86%). There were 13 RNAs. Complete results can be seen at the WTBOA website.

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Crazy Beautiful Headlines Saturday’s Delaware Oaks

Phoenix Thoroughbred III's Crazy Beautiful tops a field of nine in the $300,000 Grade 3 Delaware Oaks at Delaware Park this Saturday. The Oaks has been carded as the eighth race with an approximate post time of 4:45 p.m.

In her most recent effort, the Kentucky-bred trained by Kenneth McPeek posted a 1 3/4-length score in the mile and a sixteenth Grade 2 Summertime Oaks at Santa Anita May 30.

“She is doing great,” said trainer Ken McPeek. “We could not be happier with this filly. She handled the race in California pretty handily, so hopefully we will be able to pull off the coast-to-coast bookend and pull off the Santa Anita to Delaware Park double. The Delaware Oaks is a real good spot for her. The money, the grade and the timing are all what we are looking for. We are excited that Mike Smith is coming back to ride her and I suspect she will be tough.”

Previously, the daughter of Liam's Map was unplaced in mile and an eighth Grade 1 Kentucky Oaks at Churchill Downs on April 30. In her two other outings this year, she won the mile and a sixteenth Grade 2 Gulfstream Park Oaks by 2 ¼-lengths on March 27 and finished second in the one mile Grade 2 Davona Dale at Gulfstream Park on February 27.

Last year, she posted a record of two wins and two seconds from five starts which included a second in the Grade 1 Alcibiades at Keeneland and a second in the Grade 3 Pocahantas Stakes at Churchill Downs. She closed her 2020 campaign by finishing sixth in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Filly at Keeneland.

Her connections are intending to use the Delaware Oaks as springboard for further engagements this summer in upstate New York.

“Absolutely, there is no question and after the Delaware Oaks, she will ship to Saratoga,” McPeek said. “If she runs well, she might comeback in the Coaching Club or we may skip the Coaching Club and run in the Alabama. We have not decided that yet, but she will be definetly be headed to Saratoga.”

She has a career record of four wins and three seconds from nine starts with earnings of $520,865.

#	HORSE	OWNER	TRAINER	JOCKEY	Wg	ODD
1	Orbs Baby Girl	A R M Racing	Anthony Margotta	Mychel Sanchez	120	15-1
2	Exogen	Nautical Racing	Miguel Penaloza	Mychel Sanchez	116	15-1
3	Midnight Obsession	Main Line Racing	John Servis	Joe Bravo	118	4-1
4	Juror Number Four	Cash is King &LC	Brittany Russell	Sheldon Russell	116	6-1
5	Hybrid Eclipse	Magic Oaks	Linda Rice	Jorge Vargas	116	10-1
6	Leader of the Band	SMD Limited	John Servis	F. Pennington	116	8-1
7	Crazy Beautiful	Phoenix Thoroughbred	Ken McPeek	Mike Smith	122	6/5
8	She a Hot Mess	Cantrell Family Partner	Brett Brinkman	Angel Suarez	116	12-1
9	Baby Gundin	Bra-Gar Stables	Antonio Machado	Jamie Rodriguez	116	15-1

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