Two-time Eclipse Award winner Ashado has been pensioned from her broodmare career at Godolphin's Gainsborough Farm, BloodHorse reports.
The 21-year-old daughter of Saint Ballado has spent her entire time as a broodmare under the Godolphin umbrella, after the operation purchased her for $9 million at the 2005 Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale. At the time, it was the highest price ever paid for a racing or broodmare prospect at auction.
During her own on-track career, Ashado won 12 of 21 starts for owner Starlight Racing, and she earned $3,931,440. She was named champion 3-year-old filly of 2004 with victories in the Breeders' Cup Distaff, Kentucky Oaks, and Coaching Club American Oaks, then she earned champion older female honors a year later with Grade 1 scores in the Beldame Stakes, Ogden Phipps Handicap, and Go For Wand Handicap.
Ashado has had 13 total foals, with seven winners from nine starters. Her most accomplished runner to date is Westwood, a son of Bernardini who won the listed Runhappy Stakes at Belmont Park in 2018.
Her first foal, the unraced Star Cat, by Storm Cat, stood several seasons in Indiana before being relocated to Italy.
Ashado saw recent success with the debut score of Froshado, a 2-year-old Frosted filly, on Dec. 28 at Tampa Bay Downs. The Godolphin homebred, trained by Eoin Harty, dueled throughout the six-furlong race and won by a neck.
Looking to the future, Ashado has a yearling full-sister to Froshado that will aim to hit the races in 2023, and her final foal is a colt by the late Bernardini. The mare will remain at Gainsborough Farm for the rest of her life.
Read more at BloodHorse.
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