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 5.
In fifth place...
Mehmas
2020 yearling ave: 41,356gns/€51,240
2018 covering fee: €10,000
Profitability index: 5.12
Mehmas last year smashed the record for number of individual two-year-old winners for a first-season sire, notching an incredible 56. There was quality as well as quantity in the crop too, as he supplied Middle Park Stakes hero Supremacy, Gimcrack Stakes winner Minzaal and Listed scorers Acklam Express and Method.
Tally-Ho Stud raised the son of Acclamation’s fee to €25,000 for 2021, with good justification, and breeders who used him in his early years at cheaper fees can look forward to handsome profits. The most expensive among the Mehmas yearlings of 2020, bred off a fee of €10,000, were a half-sister to Group 3 winner K Club sold by The Castlebridge Consignment to Hugo Merry for £330,000 at Goffs Orby and a colt out of Ashtown Girl sold by Cregg Stud to Blandford Bloodstock for 320,000gns at Tattersalls October Book 2.
Check back tomorrow to see which stallion is at Number 4.
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