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 fifth place...

Minzaal

2025 yearling ave: 68,352gns/€86,841

2023 covering fee: €15,000

Profitability index: 5.79

Minzaal’s first crop took the yearling sales by storm last season, selling for an outstanding average of €86,841 (68,352gns). No fewer than 19 lots changed hands for six-figure prices, hitting a high of 550,000gns for a half-sister to Asymmetric and Mill Stream sold by Redpender Stud to Amo Racing.

Because those yearlings were conceived at Derrinstown Stud at the son of Mehmas’s introductory fee of just €15,000, there were lots of enormous profits for breeders.

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