BY BROCK SHERIDAN

Selling as a broodmare prospect, Florida-bred graded stakes-winner Nic’s Style sold for $375,000 Tuesday during Session 1 of the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale in Lexington, Kentucky. The Keeneland November Sale continues through November 11 with each session starting at 10 a.m.

Craig and Holly Bandoroff’s Denali Stud bought the 6-year-old daughter of Uncaptured out of the Street Sense mare Sense When, cataloged as Hip 150 and consigned by Gainesway as agent. Sense When is out of the multiple graded stakes-placed, stakes-winning Broken Vow mare Will O Way. Nic’s Style is a $25,000 graduate of the 2021 Ocala Breeders’ Sales October Yearling Sale where Stephen Rousseau of Coral Gables, Florida took her out of the Summerfield consignment of Francis and Barbara Vanlangendonck. She was bred in Florida by Ken D’Oyen of Carson, California under his D’Oyen Thoroughbreds banner.

During her racing career, Nic’s Style earned $641,560 for Rousseau Racing. She won eight of 14 career starts with five seconds including her victory in the six-and-half-furlong Hurricane Bertie (Grade 3) at Gulfstream Park last year and a second in the Grade 2 Gallant Bloom during the Belmont at Big A meet at Aqueduct in 2024.

Also selling as a broodmare prospect was graded stakes-placed, stakes-winning Florida-bred Tessellate, who went to Martha Jane Mulholland’s Mulholland Springs for a $300,000 price tag. Cataloged as Hip 226, Tessellate was consigned by Paramount Sales.

Bred in Florida by Tim and Crystal O’Donohue’s Castle Gate Farm located in Ocala, Tessellate is a 3-year-old filly by McKinzie out of Shotdowninflames, by Trappe Shot. Shotdowninflames is out of the stakes-winning High Yield mare High Moment and is a half-sister to Grade 3-winner Luna Time.

Second in this year’s Miss Preakness Stakes (G3) at Laurel Park, Tessellate counts among her stakes victories the $98,000 Stonehedge Farm South Sophomore Fillies versus Florida-breds and $120,000 Gasparilla, both this year at Tampa Bay Downs; and last year’s $75,000 Juvenile Fillies Sprint at Gulfstream Park. She won four of 11 career starts with two seconds and a third while accumulating $300,464 for owners Magic Cap Stables, Paul Braverman, Timothy Pinch, Castle Gate Farm, Jonathan Reinhardt and Thoroughbred Acquisition Group.

Trainer Saffie Joseph Jr. purchased her as a yearling for $170,000 out of the 2024 Keeneland September Yearling Sale where she was consigned by Paramount Sales.

Florida-bred Curlin’s Mistress, in foal to Oscar Performance, went to Maurice and Samantha Regan’s Newton Anner Stud for $110,000. Cataloged as Hip 47 and consigned by Gainesway as agent, the 2-year-old Curlin’s Mistress was winless in three starts. She is by Curlin out of Withmom’sapproval, by With Approval and is a half-sister to multiple graded stakes-winner and graded stakes-producer Curlin’s Approval and multiple group stakes-placed Apologynotaccepted. Winless in three starts, Curlin’s Mistress is a homebred for Happy Alter and his Alter’s Racing Stable.

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