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 third place...

Starman

2025 yearling ave: 86,184gns/€109,497

2023 covering fee: €15,000

Profitability index: 7.30

Starman’s second crop of yearlings sold like hot cakes after he dazzled in his freshman season, delivering 45 winners and five black-type scorers in Europe – including Prix Morny heroine Venetian Sun – all at very creditable strike-rates.

The Tally-Ho Stud-based son of Dutch Art is sure to produce even better profitability indices this year and in 2027 if he continues to shine so brightly, as his third and fourth crops were conceived at the smaller fee of €10,000.

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