The book provides a complete analysis of European bloodstock sales in 2024 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 2024 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 2024 yearling average by their covering fee of 2022, when the offspring in question were conceived.

In tenth place...

Study Of Man

2024 yearling ave: 51,075gns/€61,673

2022 covering fee: £12,500

Profitability index: 4.29

Study Of Man made a bright start with his first two-year-old runners in 2023, who included Beresford Stakes winner Deepone, and he confirmed that good impression in his sophomore season last year, when Kalpana landed the British Champions Fillies & Mares Stakes, Birthe took the Prix Saint-Alary and Francophone and Lingua Franca scored in Listed contests.

His third-crop yearlings, conceived at Lanwades Stud at a fee of £12,500, consequently proved popular with buyers. A total of 31 lots were sold for an average of 51,075gns (€61,673) and a profitability index of 4.29. Five made six-figure sums, led by the full-brother to Group 3 runner-up Kinesiology bought by Stroud Coleman Bloodstock from Staffordstown for 260,000gns.