Top of the Crops - Number 9
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 9.
In ninth place...
Cotai Glory
2020 yearling ave: 20,622gns/€25,551
2018 covering fee: €6,000
Profitability index: 4.26
Cotai Glory is many people’s idea of a good bet to be leading first-season sire by number of winners in Britain and Ireland this year, as he is a sharp and speedy son of Exceed And Excel — a Molecomb Stakes winner like Bungle Inthejungle, in fact — and he is standing at the kingmaking operation of Tally-Ho Stud.
The highlights of his introductory yearling sales offering were the half-brother to last year’s top sprinting two-year-old Supremacy sold by Owenstown Stud to SackvilleDonald for 180,000gns at Tattersalls October Book 1 and a half-brother to smart sprinter Danielsflyer sold by Mountain View Stud to SackvilleDonald again for 125,000gns at Book 2.
Check back tomorrow to see which stallion is at Number 8.
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