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 fourth place...
NIGHT OF THUNDER
2022 yearling ave: 179,894gns/€224,778
2020 covering fee: €25,000
Profitability index: 8.99
Night Of Thunder was the first-season sire sensation of 2019, supplying 28 winners at an exceptional clip of 58 per cent and matching Fasliyev’s record of seven stakes scorers in a freshman year. He has maintained a steady flow of classy runners since, and was represented last year by the top sprinter Highfield Princess.
The son of Dubawi’s yearlings of 2022, bred at an increased fee of €25,000 in the afterglow of his debut juveniles running, sold for an average of 179,894gns/€224,778. Stonestreet and Coolmore partnered on the dearest of the 96 lots, an 800,000gns half-sister to stakes winners Ross Castle, Snazzy Jazzy and Ten Year Ticket.