Weatherbys has published the 57th edition of the Bloodstock Sales Review — a must-have resource for those buying horses in all divisions of the market as well as breeders assembling their mating plans, whether Flat or National Hunt.
The book provides a complete analysis of European bloodstock sales in 2021 for all foals, yearlings and older horses in Britain, Ireland, France, Germany and Italy. It also includes foals and yearlings either foaled in Europe or by European-based sires at the major auctions in North America and Japan.
Furthermore, the Bloodstock Sales Review features comprehensive reviews of the year for Tattersalls, Goffs, Tattersalls Ireland and Arqana, as well as tables of leading sires of 2021 by yearling average, lists of the year’s dearest yearlings and foals, and a roll of top historical auction prices.
To mark the publication of the book, we have compiled a top ten of the most profitable British and Irish-based yearling sires of last year.
We have worked out each sires’ profitability index by dividing their 2021 yearling average by their covering fee of 2019, when the offspring in question were conceived.
In tenth place...
New Bay
2021 yearling ave: 58,158gns/€68,394
2019 covering fee: €15,000
Profitability index: 4.56
Breeders who kept the faith in Ballylinch Stud resident New Bay, a Prix du Jockey Club winner by Dubawi, during his third season – traditionally the trickiest for a stallion – were well rewarded for doing so at the sales last year.
On the back of his first two crops yielding Sun Chariot Stakes heroine and 1,000 Guineas runner-up Saffron Beach and Group 2 winners Bayside Boy and New Mandate, his yearlings were in strong demand. They sold for an average price of 58,158gns/€68,394, led by a filly out of Borgia’s Best, a daughter of Lope De Vega and German champion Borgia, sold by Gestüt Ammerland to John and Thady Gosden for €320,000 at Arqana.