Top of the Crops - Number 7
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 7.
In seventh place...
No Nay Never
2020 yearling ave: 96,667gns/€119,771
2018 covering fee: €25,000
Profitability index: 4.79
No Nay Never, a Group 1-winning son of Scat Daddy standing at Coolmore, has emerged as one of Europe’s leading young sires in the wake of his first three European crops yielding a stonking 36 black-type performers headed by the top-level scorers Alcohol Free and Ten Sovereigns.
No Nay Never has consequently commanded a six-figure fee for the past three seasons, and it is because his yearlings of 2020 were the last conceived at the more affordable cost of €25,000 that vendors enjoyed such good returns. The best profit margin of all was achieved by the half-brother to Group 3-winning sprinter Mince sold by Newsells Park on behalf of Waddesdon Stud to Ben McElroy/MV Magnier for 650,000gns at Tattersalls October Book 1.
Check back tomorrow to see which stallion is at Number 6.
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