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 third place...
COTAI GLORY
2022 yearling ave: 36,653gns/€45,797
2020 covering fee: €5,000
Profitability index: 9.16
Cotai Glory made a bold show with his first two-year-old runners in 2021, delivering 35 winners at a strike-rate of 40 per cent, led by Prix Robert Papin scorer Atomic Force. The son of Exceed And Excel impressed again in his sophomore season last year, with The Platinum Queen becoming the first two-year-old to win the Prix de l’Abbaye since Sigy in 1978.
Many of his third crop of yearlings, bred off a fee of just €5,000, returned big profits for breeders, as they made an average price of 36,653gns/€45,797 with a high of 350,000gns given by Blandford Bloodstock for a half-sister to 1,000 Guineas heroine Cachet.