Weatherbys has published the 59th 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 2023 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 2023 by yearling average, lists of the year’s most expensive 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 2023 yearling average by their covering fee of 2021, when the offspring in question were conceived.
In eighth place...
Kodi Bear
2023 yearling ave: 27,570gns/€32,711
2021 covering fee: €6,000
Profitability index: 5.45
Kodi Bear endeared himself to breeders when he was standing at Rathbarry Stud at a fee of just €6,000 in 2021 by siring 18 debut two-year-old winners at a useful clip of 34 per cent in the preceding year. He had also come up with five black-type performers, including the exciting Cobh and Measure Of Magic.
A round 100 yearlings conceived in 2021 sold for an average of 27,570gns (€32,711) last year, with six making six-figure sums. Top lot was a colt out of a Tagula half-sister to Listed winner Champagne Or Water bought by Alex Elliott for 150,000gns at Book 2 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale.