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 seventh place...
FARHH
2022 yearling ave: 96,768gns/€120,911
2020 covering fee: £12,000
Profitability index: 8.06
Farhh has compiled an impressive progeny record in spite of being subfertile, with 23 black-type performers to his name from his six small crops of racing age. Last season’s Sun Chariot Stakes heroine Fonteyn and Poule d’Essai des Poulains third Tribalist are the latest stars to show him in a good light.
The son of Pivotal had only 12 yearlings offered for sale last year, and due to their scarcity value they all found new homes for an excellent average price of 96,768gns/€120,911, with a high of 400,000gns paid by Kevin Ryan for a half-brother to Listed scorer Guilded. Fine results indeed, seeing as those lots were bred off a fee of £12,000.