The book provides a complete analysis of European bloodstock sales in 2025 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 2025 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 2025 yearling average by their covering fee of 2023, when the offspring in question were conceived.

In tenth place...

Blue Point

2025 yearling ave: 133,056gns/€169,048

2023 covering fee: €35,000

Profitability index: 4.83

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. That was achieved without his two best performers, Rosallion and Kind Of Blue, managing to score in a black-type race that year – although both finished second in Group 1 company.

Blue Point’s fourth crop of yearlings were consequently in strong demand last year, and because they were conceived at Kildangan Stud at the sire’s cheapest fee, before he shone with his debut two-year-olds, there were big profits enjoyed by his supporters.

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