| REGISTERED NUMBER: |
| UNAUDITED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31ST DECEMBER 2024 |
| FOR |
| PETRA BLOODSTOCK AGENCY LIMITED |
| REGISTERED NUMBER: |
| UNAUDITED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31ST DECEMBER 2024 |
| FOR |
| PETRA BLOODSTOCK AGENCY LIMITED |
| PETRA BLOODSTOCK AGENCY LIMITED (REGISTERED NUMBER: 01527664) |
| CONTENTS OF THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS |
| FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31ST DECEMBER 2024 |
| Page |
| Company Information | 1 |
| Balance Sheet | 2 |
| Notes to the Financial Statements | 3 |
| PETRA BLOODSTOCK AGENCY LIMITED |
| COMPANY INFORMATION |
| FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31ST DECEMBER 2024 |
| DIRECTORS: |
| SECRETARY: |
| REGISTERED OFFICE: |
| REGISTERED NUMBER: |
| ACCOUNTANTS: |
| Chartered Accountants |
| First Floor |
| 13a High Street |
| Edenbridge |
| Kent |
| TN8 5AB |
| PETRA BLOODSTOCK AGENCY LIMITED (REGISTERED NUMBER: 01527664) |
| BALANCE SHEET |
| 31ST DECEMBER 2024 |
| 2024 | 2023 |
| Notes | £ | £ | £ | £ |
| FIXED ASSETS |
| Tangible assets | 4 |
| CURRENT ASSETS |
| Biological assets | 5 |
| Debtors | 6 |
| Cash at bank |
| CREDITORS |
| Amounts falling due within one year | 7 |
| NET CURRENT LIABILITIES | ( |
) | ( |
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| TOTAL ASSETS LESS CURRENT LIABILITIES |
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| CAPITAL AND RESERVES |
| Called up share capital |
| Retained earnings | ( |
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| SHAREHOLDERS' FUNDS | ( |
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| The directors acknowledge their responsibilities for: |
| (a) | ensuring that the company keeps accounting records which comply with Sections 386 and 387 of the Companies Act 2006 and |
| (b) | preparing financial statements which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the company as at the end of each financial year and of its profit or loss for each financial year in accordance with the requirements of Sections 394 and 395 and which otherwise comply with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006 relating to financial statements, so far as applicable to the company. |
| The financial statements were approved by the Board of Directors and authorised for issue on |
| PETRA BLOODSTOCK AGENCY LIMITED (REGISTERED NUMBER: 01527664) |
| NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS |
| FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31ST DECEMBER 2024 |
| 1. | STATUTORY INFORMATION |
| Petra Bloodstock Agency Limited is a |
| The presentation currency of the financial statements is the Pound Sterling (£). |
| 2. | ACCOUNTING POLICIES |
| Basis of preparing the financial statements |
| The directors believe that the company is a going concern on the basis that the controlling party, P J Goulandris, is prepared to continue to support the company and has the means to do so. |
| Significant judgements and estimates |
| In computing the individual costs of the livestock the directors use a cost figure prepared by an independent valuer of the animal when it was a foal. This cost is compared to the valuer's market valuation of the animal at the balance sheet date to confirm that there has been no impairment to the value of the animal. |
| Turnover |
| Turnover represents sales of bloodstock, insurance claims received and breeders premiums and race earnings and is stated net of value added tax. |
| Tangible fixed assets |
| Plant and machinery etc | - |
| Biological assets |
| Bloodstock consists of mares, foals, stallion shares and horses in training. Stallion shares, horses in training and foals are valued individually at the lower of cost and market value. |
| Mares are valued at the lower of cost less depreciation and market value. The cost of mares is depreciated on a straight line basis over ten years. Costs does not include the ongoing costs of keeping the animal and, as noted above, is based on an independent valuer's assessment of the cost of the foal where the animal is home bred. The cost of broodmares includes the nomination fee paid if the mare is in foal at the year end and she gave birth to a live foal. |
| Livestock is included at cost rather than fair value because the market in an individual animal is volatile and the use of cost maintains consistency year on year. |
| Taxation |
| Taxation for the year comprises current and deferred tax. Tax is recognised in the Income Statement, except to the extent that it relates to items recognised in other comprehensive income or directly in equity. |
| Current or deferred taxation assets and liabilities are not discounted. |
| Current tax is recognised at the amount of tax payable using the tax rates and laws that have been enacted or substantively enacted by the balance sheet date. |
| PETRA BLOODSTOCK AGENCY LIMITED (REGISTERED NUMBER: 01527664) |
| NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS - continued |
| FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31ST DECEMBER 2024 |
| 2. | ACCOUNTING POLICIES - continued |
| Deferred tax |
| Deferred tax is recognised in respect of all timing differences that have originated but not reversed at the balance sheet date. |
| Timing differences arise from the inclusion of income and expenses in tax assessments in periods different from those in which they are recognised in financial statements. Deferred tax is measured using tax rates and laws that have been enacted or substantively enacted by the year end and that are expected to apply to the reversal of the timing difference. |
| Unrelieved tax losses and other deferred tax assets are recognised only to the extent that it is probable that they will be recovered against the reversal of deferred tax liabilities or other future taxable profits. |
| Foreign currencies |
| Assets and liabilities in foreign currencies are translated into sterling at the rates of exchange ruling at the balance sheet date. Transactions in foreign currencies are translated into sterling at the rate of exchange ruling at the date of transaction. Exchange differences are taken into account in arriving at the operating result. |
| Pension costs and other post-retirement benefits |
| The company operates a defined contribution pension scheme. Contributions payable to the company's pension scheme are charged to profit or loss in the period to which they relate. |
| 3. | EMPLOYEES AND DIRECTORS |
| The average number of employees during the year was |
| 4. | TANGIBLE FIXED ASSETS |
| Plant and |
| machinery |
| etc |
| £ |
| COST |
| At 1st January 2024 |
| and 31st December 2024 |
| DEPRECIATION |
| At 1st January 2024 |
| and 31st December 2024 |
| NET BOOK VALUE |
| At 31st December 2024 |
| At 31st December 2023 |
| PETRA BLOODSTOCK AGENCY LIMITED (REGISTERED NUMBER: 01527664) |
| NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS - continued |
| FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31ST DECEMBER 2024 |
| 5. | BIOLOGICAL ASSETS |
| 2024 | 2023 |
| £ | £ |
| Mares |
| Foals and yearlings |
| Horses in training |
| The total market value of the bloodstock at the year end was £ 630,000 (2023 £ 1,452,000). |
| 6. | DEBTORS: AMOUNTS FALLING DUE WITHIN ONE YEAR |
| 2024 | 2023 |
| £ | £ |
| Trade debtors |
| Other debtors |
| 7. | CREDITORS: AMOUNTS FALLING DUE WITHIN ONE YEAR |
| 2024 | 2023 |
| £ | £ |
| Trade creditors |
| Amounts owed to group undertakings |
| Taxation and social security |
| Other creditors |
| PETRA BLOODSTOCK AGENCY LIMITED (REGISTERED NUMBER: 01527664) |
| NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS - continued |
| FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31ST DECEMBER 2024 |
| 8. | RELATED PARTY DISCLOSURES |
| At 31st December 2024 the directors regarded Chestnut Investment Corporation of 80 Broad Street, Monrovia, incorporated in Liberia, as the parent company. The directors do not know if group accounts are prepared which include this company's financial statements. |
| The amount due to the parent company at the year end is £13,070,649 (2023 £13,070,649). The continued investment is pivotal to the continuation of Petra Bloodstock Agency Limited as a business. There were no other other transactions with the parent company. |
| The individual who was recorded as a person with significant control in the register and at Companies House, Lady C O'Reilly, is owed £306,499 (2023 £306,499) by the company. She died on 23rd August 2023. She was succeeded by P J Goulandris who was owed £425,142 (2023 £69,234) by the company on 31st December 2024. |
| When the company's bloodstock races in France it is permitted to do so through an agreement with France Galop. Under this arrangement race earnings and breeders premiums, net of France Galop charges, of £35,449 (2023 £57,354) arose during the year. |