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 seventh place...

A’Ali

2025 yearling ave: 25,892gns/€32,895

2023 covering fee: £5,000

Profitability index: 5.44

Newsells Park Stud-based A’Ali made a promising start with his first two-year-olds last year, putting 13 winners on the board in Europe including stakes-placed pair Alarming and Ali Shuffle, as well as Albany Stakes fifth Fairy Oak.

He owes his lofty position in this chart to the fact that he stood his second season at just £5,000 and the resultant yearlings proving popular at the sales, with five making £50,000 or more, led by the £100,000 full-brother to Fairy Oak. 

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