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 second place...
ARDAD
2022 yearling ave: 62,967gns/€78,677
2020 covering fee: £6,500
Profitability index: 9.69
Ardad is a speedily bred son of Kodiac who won the Windsor Castle Stakes and Flying Childers at two, and he has shown with his first two crops of racing age that he is getting precocious and pacey stock in his own image: think dual Group 1-winning two-year-old and Commonwealth Cup hero Perfect Power and other classy juveniles such as Crispy Cat, Eve Lodge and Vintage Clarets.
He was sent 26 mares in his third season at Overbury Stud, and so was represented by only 14 yearlings at the sales in 2022. That meant, though, that they had considerable rarity value and those who kept the faith in him were rewarded with an average price of 62,967gns/€78,677.