The new sire intake of 2019 was exceptionally well-credentialed, featuring a Triple Crown winner who was Horse of the Year and champion 3-year-old; a champion 2-year-old; a champion older horse ...

In yesterday's edition of Value Sires for 2025, Chris McGrath profiled the stallions standing between $20,000 and $29,999, awarding the gold medal to Darley's Hard Spun (read more here).

That said, the case for the three young sires at the other end of the spectrum–whose first foals are about to slither into a world of hope–clearly remains 100 percent unaltered from this time ...

Spendthrift Farm's 2024 leading first crop sire Vekoma rang in the new year with his newest stakes winner when Five G soared home by nine lengths in the Jan. 1 Cash Run Stakes at Gulfstream Park.

Offspring of Central Kentucky stallion Vekoma amassed $2,747,263 in progeny earnings to propel the Spendthrift Farm resident sire to the top of North America's 2024 first-crop sire list.