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 fourth place...

Havana Grey

2025 yearling ave: 113,505gns/€144,208

2023 covering fee: £18,500

Profitability index: 6.44

Havana Grey is so popular that he figures highly in this list even though last season’s yearlings were conceived when his covering fee was more than trebled to £18,500 in the afterglow of his excellent freshman season.

The huge average price of 113,505gns (€144,208) achieved by that crop was fuelled by the Whitsbury Manor Stud resident supplying no fewer than 15 black-type performers among his two-year-olds, who had been bred off of a fee of just £6,000.

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