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 sixth place...

Blue Point

2024 yearling ave: 156,323gns/€188,760

2022 covering fee: €40,000

Profitability index: 4.72

Blue Point looks like the next big thing in the stallion ranks, with his first crop having yielded last year’s Irish 2,000 Guineas and St James’s Palace Stakes hero Rosallion, British Champions Sprint victor Kind Of Blue and top sprinter Big Evs, and his second crop containing Group 2 scorer Sky Majesty.

The price of his services at Kildangan Stud has therefore been hiked to €100,000 this year, but his third crop of yearlings were conceived at only €40,000, meaning lots of big profits for his supporters. He had 73 lots sell for an average of 156,323gns (€188,760), making a profitability index of 4.72. Henry Lascelles bought the most expensive one, a filly out of the winning Cityscape mare Roseau City, for 725,000gns.

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