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 seventh place...

Tasleet

2024 yearling ave: 21,142gns/€25,529

2022 covering fee: £5,000

Profitability index: 4.44

Tasleet managed to sire champion sprinter Bradsell and Prix Jean Romanet runner-up American Sonja in spite of standing at Nunnery Stud at chickenfeed fees, so it seems a shame for British and Irish breeders that he was sold to stand at Star Born Stud in India last year.

His small penultimate European crop, conceived at a fee of just £5,000, happened to include a very well bred colt in the half-brother to Gimcrack Stakes winner Cool Hoof Luke, who was sold by Moyfinn Stud to Amanda Skiffington for £350,000 at Doncaster. That drove the sire’s average for 27 lots sold to 21,142gns (€25,529), resulting in an excellent profitability index of 4.44.

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