The book provides a complete analysis of European bloodstock sales in 2025 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 2025 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 last year.

We have worked out each sires’ profitability index by dividing their 2025 yearling average by their covering fee of 2023, when the offspring in question were conceived.

In first place...

Sands Of Mali

2025 yearling ave: 50,325gns/€63,938

2023 covering fee: €5,000

Profitability index: 12.79

Sands Of Mali’s impressive second season with runners in 2025 – headlined by the Commonwealth Cup victory of Time For Sandals and a Nunthorpe second for Ain’t Nobody – combined with the sire having a small third crop of yearlings conceived at Ballyhane Stud at a fee of just €5,000 created the perfect storm for the small number of breeders who kept the faith in him in 2023 to make some gigantic profits.

The son of Panis, now based at Yeomanstown Stud, was represented by 15 lots who sold for an average of €63,938, at 12.79 times the covering fee. The most expensive offering was the full-sister to Time For Sandals sold by Branton Court Stud to Hugo Merry and Blue Diamond Stud for 220,000gns.

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