Ashado, the second-leading money winner among female horses, sold for a record $9 million Monday during the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale. John Ferguson, the buyer for Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum, the crown prince of Dubai, outlasted Irish bloodstock magnate John Magnier, the owner of Coolmore Stud, in a bidding process that lasted more than nine minutes in a packed Keeneland sales pavilion.  Ashado shattered the previous world record price for a broodmare, set when Cash Run sold for $7.1 million during Keeneland’s November sale two years ago. The price is the fourth-highest ever paid for a thoroughbred at auction. The late Robert Sangster, a British owner and breeder, and several high-profile partners paid the record $13.1 million for Seattle Dancer at the Keeneland July Select Yearling Sale in 1985. Two years earlier, a Northern Dancer colt named Snaafi Dancer fetched $10.2 million from Aston Upthorpe Stud at the July sale.

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