Weatherbys has published the 58th edition of the Bloodstock Sales Review — a must-have resource for those purchasing horses in all sections of the market, as well as breeders putting together their mating plans, whether Flat or National Hunt.
The book provides a complete analysis of European bloodstock sales in 2022 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 overviews of the trading year for Tattersalls, Goffs, Tattersalls Ireland and Arqana, as well as tables of the leading sires of 2022 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 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 2022 yearling average by their covering fee of 2020, when the offspring in question were conceived.
In tenth place...
STARSPANGLEDBANNER
2022 yearling ave: 96,625gns/€120,733
2020 covering fee: €22,500
Profitability index: 5.37
Starspangledbanner has long been known as a reliable source of high-class two-year-olds and sprinters but in 2022 he revealed a new aspect to his abilities, with Aristia, Rhea Moon and State Of Rest winning top-level races over ten furlongs and California Spangle becoming a star of the Hong Kong racing scene.
Consequently there was strong competition to buy his yearlings, with 72 lots bred off a fee of €22,500 selling for an average of 96,625gns/€120,733. A high of 600,000gns was bid by Richard Knight for a colt out of Lily Agnes Stakes winner Great Dame.