You’ve read endless stories over the past week on the million dollar yearlings sold at the Gold Coast last week and the vendors, buyers and sires responsible, but the story of sire profitability is often a little less clear, so let’s take a closer look at the sires that made money for their supporters.

Darryn Weatherley is unable to split his talented stayers Ess Vee Are and Arby ahead of Saturday’s Gr.3 NZ Campus Of Innovation And Sport Wellington Cup (3200m), and with the same ownership group in both horses, he would be happy to see either take the Trentham feature.