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 fourth place...

Sioux Nation

2024 yearling ave: 42,976gns/€51,893

2022 covering fee: €10,000

Profitability index: 5.19

Sioux Nation has quietly impressed with his first three crops producing decent strike-rates of winners and stakes performers. The tough Group 2 winners Brave Emperor and Matilda Picotte have been the best adverts for his talents in the northern hemisphere, leading to him covering a bumper book of 246 mares at an increased fee of €27,500 at Coolmore last year.

His fourth crop of yearlings were conceived at just €10,000, though, so the strong demand for them – 123 lots sold for an average of 42,976gns (€51,893) – resulted in an impressive profitability index of 5.19. Most expensive of the lot was a colt out of the Listed-placed Areion mare Westfalica sold by Mountain View Stud to Federico Barberini for 280,000gns.

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