WHAT a way to earn the first piece of blacktype with an offspring. Liam’s Map, the record-breaking Grade 1 winning son of Unbridled’s Song (Unbridled), sired this week’s Grade 1 winner Basin, a two-year-old from his first crop. The juvenile colt is just one of a pair of winners from that crop for the Lane’s End stallion who has just completed his latest season at a fee of $20,000, down from the $25,000 he commanded for his first three years.

Liam’s Map’s first crop of yearlings sold for up to $500,000 last year, and they averaged $158,490 for a total of 68 sold. Unraced himself at two, Liam’s Map was only defeated twice in eight career starts at three and four. An improver with time, he won an eight and a half furlong stakes at three, but at four his career exploded.