Top of the Crops - Number 4
To mark the publication of the 56th edition of the Bloodstock Sales Review, Martin Stevens has compiled a top ten of the most profitable British and Irish-based yearling sires of last year. He have 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. Here's who’s at Number 4.
In fourth place...
Night Of Thunder
2020 yearling ave: 79,793gns/€98,864
2018 covering fee: £15,000
Profitability index: 5.59
Night Of Thunder has taken the bloodstock world by storm with his first two crops, delivering high winners-to-runners and black-type winners-to-runners strike-rates. Headline acts by the Kildangan Stud-based son of Dubawi include Group 2 winners Auyantepui, Night Colours and Thunderous, as well as Group 1 runner-up Keep Busy.
Night Of Thunder is now priced at €75,000 but his third crop — last season’s yearlings — were conceived at a fee of just £15,000, so many breeders enjoyed big paydays for selling his stock. The most expensive of all was Pier House Stud’s colt out of the Anabaa Blue mare Surprise, knocked down to Shadwell Estate Company for 250,000gns at Tattersalls October Book 2.
Check back tomorrow to see which stallion is at Number 3.
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