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 ninth place...
KESSAAR
2022 yearling ave: 27,214gns/€34,004
2020 covering fee: €6,000
Profitability index: 5.67
Kessaar made a promising start with his first-crop of two-year-olds in 2022, supplying 25 winners at a strike-rate of 45 per cent, including black type-placed Bolt Action and Ipanema Princess.
Buyers evidently liked what they saw, as they spent an average of 27,214gns/€34,004 on the son of Kodiac’s 25 yearlings who sold at auction last year, in spite of them having been conceived at a fee of just €6,000. Pick of the bunch was the three-parts sister to Listed winner Geocentric bought by Durcan Bloodstock for 155,000gns.