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 fifth place...
KODI BEAR
2022 yearling ave: 39,830gns/€49,768
2020 covering fee: €6,000
Profitability index: 8.29
Kodi Bear has won the respect of breeders by siring 12 black-type performers, including top-class sprinter Go Bears Go, from his first three inexpensively bred crops.
His fourth crop of yearlings, whose cost of conception was still a mere €6,000, sold for an average price of 39,830gns/€49,768 with a high of 210,000gns paid by Kevin Ryan for a full-sister to Group 3-placed filly Scarlet Bear.