PROFITABLE’S popularity with breeders fell off a cliff in 2023. The Kildangan Stud-based stallion retired there in 2018 at an introductory fee of €12,000.

It dropped to €10,000 in 2021, the year in which his first runners were due to hit the track, and quickly went back up to €12,500 in 2022 on the back of a successful season when Profitable finished fourth on the table of sires with their first runners, and three of that crop recorded stakes wins.