Mares carrying foals from MINDFRAME’s first crop sold for up to $335,000 at this year’s Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale with an average of $131,685 for 19 sold.
Selling as part of the Starship Stables dispersal with Taylor Made, Niki Nine Doors was snapped up for $335,000 by Avocet Bloodstock in the second book.
Visiting MINDRAME on February 28 and carrying that foal into the ring, Niki Nine Doors was an exciting mare on the track before starting her broodmare career. Racing 16 times, she finished in the top three in eight of those starts with her two wins led by a two-length victory in the Pea Patch S. in one of her two stakes appearances. Her full sister Call The Bullpen was also a stakes winner with her dam having three winners from five to race with her juvenile placed this year.
A fourth-generation Airdrie-bred mare, Niki Nine Doors sees Grade 1 winner Antiquarian and Grade 2 winners Silver Comic, Speaktomeofsummer and Luz Delito in her family.
Four Star Sales was the agent that signed the ticket on the $280,000 Shared Value offered by Brookdale.
Carrying her first foal by MINDFRAME, this unraced Gun Runner mare is a half-sister to Grade 3-placed Cipriani and two other winners from four to race out of stakes winner and Grade 2-placed Salamera. Salamera is one of three stakes performers out of her own dam, Autumn Music.
Producing nine winners overall, Autumn Music also produced champion Vivaldi Girl and stakes placed Adore You. Vavaldi Girl in turn produced the stakes placed Increible. Adore You has been a superstar in the breeding shed with her six winners from seven to race including multiple stakes winner and Grade 1-placed Outadore and Piedi Bianchi, and stakes winner Mind Reader.
MINDFRAME’s first mares also sold for $200,000, $200,000, $190,000, etc. with his average fourth best of all stallions in his crop.