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 sixth place...
HAVANA GREY
2022 yearling ave: 53,196gns/€66,468
2020 covering fee: £6,500
Profitability index: 8.18
Havana Grey took the breeding world by storm last year, with his first crop of two-year-olds yielding 42 winners at a strike-rate of 49 per cent, as well as no fewer than 13 black-type performers, headed by Group 3 scorers Eddie’s Boy, Lady Hollywood and Rumstar.
It was no surprise, then, that the son of Havana Gold’s second crop of yearlings were in such strong demand. Some 88 lots – conceived at an advertised fee of just £6,500 – sold for an average of 53,196gns/€66,468, led by a colt out of the winning Swiss Spirit mare Dotted Swiss bought by Karl and Kelly Burke for 325,000gns.