St. Elias Stable pays $925,000 for blazing Liam's Map filly at OBS sale

St. Elias Stable put $925,000 on a speedy Liam’s Map filly whose quarter-mile breeze in :20 2/5 had already marked her as one of the sale’s sharpest workers. Hip 915 became one of the clear statements of the third session at the OBS Spring 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale, a price that showed how aggressively buyers were paying for fast juveniles with commercial pedigrees and a little existing St. Elias history behind them.

Monique Delk, bidding for Vincent Viola’s stable, said St. Elias are “big fans of Liam’s Map” and wanted to support the sire. She called the filly “big, beautiful” and said she “breezed lights out,” a description that matched the market’s response when the gavel finally fell. Tom McCrocklin had consigned the filly after buying her for $120,000 as a yearling at last year’s Fasig-Tipton Kentucky October Yearlings Sale, turning a modest buyback into a seven-figure-level project for the edge of the juvenile market.

The purchase also fit a pattern for St. Elias with the stallion. The barn campaigns Liam’s Map’s lifetime leading earner, multiple Grade 1 winner Deterministic, with Ken Langone, Steven Duncker and Vicarage Stable, and it also shares ownership of the stallion’s Kentucky Derby hopeful Fulleffort with Starlight Racing. Viola’s operation once campaigned Liam’s Map himself in partnership with West Point Thoroughbreds when the colt won the 2015 Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile, giving the stable a longer connection to the horse than a single sale-ring bid.

The filly was bred in Kentucky by Jim and Susan Hill and is the second foal of the Honor Code mare Honor Hop. For buyers trying to project future value, that kind of pedigree matters as much as the stop-watch. Liam’s Map is standing at Lane’s End for a 2026 advertised fee of $50,000 live foal, stands and nurses, and Equineline listed 114 current 2-year-old foals in his 2026 Northern Hemisphere crop, a reminder that there is still depth behind the sire’s best stock.

The OBS market stayed hot around her. Another filly, by Bolt d’Oro, brought $1.3 million and became the fourth seven-figure horse of the sale, underscoring how much speed and upside were drawing capital throughout Day 3. On the final day, attention will turn in part to hip 1112, a half sister to 2025 champion female sprinter Shisospicy, who won the 2025 Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint by 2 1/2 lengths with Irad Ortiz Jr. aboard for trainer Jose Francisco D’Angelo. In a sale built on upside, St. Elias made its bet on a filly that already looked fast enough to justify the price.