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 eighth place...
NEW BAY
2022 yearling ave: 70,655gns/€88,284
2020 covering fee: €15,000
Profitability index: 5.89
New Bay showed considerable promise as a sire from the moment his first two-year-olds raced in 2020, and he took his place at the top table last year when Bay Bridge and Bayside Boy notched a memorable Group 1 double for him on Qipco British Champions Day at Ascot and Saffron Beach added the Prix Rothschild at Deauville to her CV.
The son of Dubawi’s rise through the ranks was reflected at the yearling sales, where he was represented by 60 lots who had been bred off a fee of just €15,000 but changed hands for an average price of 70,655gns/€88,284. Richard Knight bid 475,000gns for the most expensive of all, a half-brother to Group 2-placed The Acropolis.