{"id":12414,"date":"2019-07-22T15:17:28","date_gmt":"2019-07-22T21:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/?p=12414"},"modified":"2019-07-22T15:18:28","modified_gmt":"2019-07-22T21:18:28","slug":"liams-map-gets-first-winner-basin-saratoga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/liams-map-gets-first-winner-basin-saratoga\/","title":{"rendered":"Liam\u2019s Map Gets First Winner With Basin At Saratoga"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"I\u2019ve been waiting to write about Liam\u2019s Map\u2019s first winner, because I love the horse. When I visited Lane\u2019s End to view him when he first went to stud, he knocked my eyes out. He is the most unusual of gray horses, with a silver coat that appears to be star-spangled. But I was already pre-disposed to love him, because I\u2019d put a big (for me) bet on his nose to win the Breeders\u2019 Cup Dirt Mile-G1, and he did so in convincing fashion, by 2 \u00bd lengths, in a new track record. This was a race horse. He did not race at all at two, however, so I feared his first crop might not be precocious.<\/p>\r\n

Yesterday, 7\/21, at Saratoga, his son Basin won a maiden special weight over a prohibitive favorite. Owned by Jackpot Ranch, trained by Steve Asmussen, and bred by Cottonwood Stables, Basin demonstrated in his second start that he has potential. He\u2019d already had a second at Churchill Downs, to the colt who would go on to win the Sanford S.-G2\u2014not too shabby.<\/p>\r\n

Basin is out of the Johannesburg mare Appenzell, whose pedigree complements that of Liam\u2019s Map by adding a second dose of Damascus, and two more of Mr. Prospector to reach out to the Fappiano in the sire\u2019s side. The important relative in the dams\u2019 side, however, is Seeking the Gold, who adds another dose of Buckpasser to Liam\u2019s Map\u2019s already La Troienne-rich pedigree. As well, Appenzell\u2019s pedigree includes two doses of Northern Dancer, through Storm Cat and Dixieland Band.<\/p>\r\n

Liam\u2019s Map entered stud for a fee of $25,000, which was reduced in 2019 to $20,000. Not a bad fee for a millionaire and multiple-grade-one winner, with his looks. I personally am looking forward to what his three-year-olds and four-year-olds will do, as that was when Liam\u2019s Map turned into a winning machine. I\u2019m hoping he will be the heir apparent of the magic that Unbridled\u2019s Song had at stud.<\/p>\r\n

— Roberta Smoodin<\/em><\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\"\"I\u2019ve been waiting to write about Liam\u2019s Map\u2019s first winner, because I love the horse. When I visited Lane\u2019s End to view him when he first went to stud, he knocked my eyes out. He is the most unusual of gray horses, with a silver coat that appears to be star-spangled. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloodstock","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoroughbredpeople.com\/blogUS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}