Weatherbys has published the 56th edition of the Bloodstock Sales Review — a must-have resource for those buying horses in all divisions of the market as well as breeders assembling their mating plans, whether Flat or National Hunt.
The book provides a complete analysis of European bloodstock sales in 2020 for all foals, yearlings and older horses in Britain, Ireland, France, Germany and Italy. It also includes foals and yearlings either foaled in Europe or by European-based sires at the major auctions in North America and Japan.
The Bloodstock Sales Review also features comprehensive reviews of the year for Tattersalls, Goffs, Tattersalls Ireland and Arqana, as well as tables of leading sires of 2020 by yearling average, lists of the year’s dearest yearlings and foals, and a roll of top historical auction prices.
To mark the publication of the book, Martin Stevens has compiled a top ten of the most profitable British and Irish-based yearling sires of last year. He has worked out each sires’ profitability index by dividing their 2020 yearling average by their covering fee of 2018, when the offspring in question were conceived.
In tenth place...
Bungle Inthejungle
2020 yearling ave: 16,866gns/€20,898
2018 covering fee: €5,000
Profitability index: 4.18
Rathasker Stud’s precocious son of Exceed And Excel has earned significant respect as a solid source of pacey and precocious runners in his own image, including the Pattern-winning two-year-olds Living In The Past, Rumble Inthejungle and Winter Power.
The most expensive of Bungle Inthejungle’s yearlings of 2020 was a full-brother to Lowther Stakes winner Living In The Past sold by Newlands House Stud to SackvilleDonald for £100,000 at the Goffs Orby Yearling Sale held at Doncaster.
Check back tomorrow to see which stallion is at Number 9!
The Bloodstock Sales Review is available to buy at https://bettrendsshop.co.uk/.