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Tara Madgwick from Breednet.com.au has today written an interesting article on stallion profitability for breeders. For those who haven’t seen it, we wish to share it with you. On Wednesday morning Tara looked at the most profitable sires at the 2017 Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale assessed by multiple of service fee and today re-sorted the list according to the best sires in terms of straight profit.

An extraordinary fortnight of sales and 112 years of history ended on Wednesday when the gavel came down for the last ever time at Inglis Newmarket Sales Complex at Randwick, capping off a remarkable select sales season for Inglis.

All Too Hard (Black Caviar's half-brother) an exciting First Crop Sire, registered his second winner and his first Australian winner of his stallion career when The Mighty Fed raced away at Warwick Farm on Wednesday. The Mighty Fed is the first Australian winner for Vinery Stud's All Too Hard, who is also the sire of NZ winner Lincoln Hills and stakes-placed horses All Too Huiying and Mystic Empire amongst 11 placegetters to date – with 9 of these 11 placegetters having been placed in Metropolitan Saturday class.

Dynamic Syndications follow the trends of stallions in demand and the prices paid in the market. Medians and Averages are vital components for our team to keep up to date with trends which often runs in correlation with racetrack success. With record prizemoney on offer and racing affordability at an all-time high, racetrack returns and investment in quality breeding stock is fuelling buyer confidence and a desire to be involved.

Massive thoroughbred juggernauts ARROWFIELD, COOLMORE and NEWGATE have joined YARRAMAN PARK to release their 2017 Service Fees for their stallion rosters. DARLEY are yet to announce their fees but have announced a raft of exciting new sires they will be standing. Without surprise the big two mover and shakers in the industry are SNITZEL and I AM INVINCIBLE and both have seen significant rises with SNITZEL jumping from $110,000 to $176,000 whilst I AM INVINCIBLE doubled from $55,000 to $110,000.

The final day of action saw seven Lots sell for $1 million or more, resulting in the 2017 Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale ending as the "second greatest" in the company’s 150 year history.

The price tag of $2.4 million proved a further indicator of the strength and depth of the buyer market present at the sale, which has led to impressive overall figures. At the conclusion of Day 2, the sale’s average was $354,044, median $270,000, gross $79,660,000 with a healthy clearance rate of 81%.

The list below is of interest to Dynamic Syndications and our owners as we have already purchased yearlings by these sires in 2017. Such has been the continuing strength of the thoroughbred market, our decision to buy earlier in the season at the Magic Millions (12), NZ Premier (2), Inglis Classic (1) and Inglis Melbourne (2) appears to have been the correct decision.

A diverse buying bench, mixed with an exceptionally strong catalogue and reduced numbers, has resulted in a powerful opening session of the 2017 Australian Easter Yearling Sale. Day 1 ended with an Average of $347,045, a Median of $300,000 and gross of $38,175,000 with a clearance rate at a healthy 80%.