Top of the Crops - Number 6
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 6.
In sixth place...
Farhh
2020 yearling ave: 46,763gns/€57,939
2018 covering fee: £10,000
Profitability index: 4.91
Farhh, a Group 1-winning son of Pivotal, has grabbed breeders’ attention by siring a high concentration of classy runners from crops that are depleted in size due to subfertility. Weatherbys credits him with nine black-type scorers and 41 winners from just 83 starters since his progeny first graced racecourses in 2017, and his star performers include King Of Change, Dee Ex Bee and Far Above.
Because the supply of yearlings by the Dalham Hall Stud resident to the sales is so limited, and demand for them is so high, the sire achieves excellent average and median prices. His top seller in 2020 was the colt out of dual winner Flycatcher sold by Barton Stud to Jeremy Brummitt and Danny O’Brien for 130,000gns at Tattersalls October Book 2.
Check back tomorrow to see which stallion is at Number 5.
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