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Newsells Park Stud-based A’Ali made a promising start with his first two-year-olds last year, putting 13 winners on the board in Europe including stakes-placed pair Alarming and Ali Shuffle, as well as Albany Stakes fifth Fairy Oak.

The most expensive stallions don’t usually muster the biggest profitability indices, as a lower multiple of their larger covering fee still equates to a huge financial gain for their supporters, but Night Of Thunder has made it onto this list thanks to his yearlings bred off a €100,000 fee selling for a fabulous average of €517,394 (407,237gns) in 2025.

Sioux Nation has really endeared himself to the industry by being a reliable source of precocious and pacey performers with a touch of class – including Poule d’Essai des Pouliches first-past-the–post Shes Perfect and Rockfel winner Zanthos last year. 

Blue Point is going from strength to strength as a sire, and in 2025 he posted 13 stakes winners in Europe at an impressive strike-rate of 6.4 per cent.

The concluding race on the card was the Listed King Edward VII Ascot Membership Open National Hunt Flat Race, which was won by the Chris Gordon-trained Bass Hunter, who shot to the head of the ante-post market for the Champion Bumper.

Mishriff was a Classic winner and dual-surface international champion.

Rajasinghe has proved to be a dab hand with big Saturday winners.

King Of Steel is the highest rated son of Wootton Bassett at stud in Europe.

Night Of Thunder was the only stallion with seven-figure sales yearlings in Britain, Ireland and France in 2025.

Gleneagles is the sire of Timeform’s highest rated horse in Europe in 2025, Calandagan.

Torquator Tasso hails from ‘the world’s best damline’.