That makes what Spendthrift Farm accomplished last year all the more remarkable.
The stud farm near Lexington is home to North America’s leading sire, sire of the first crop, sire of the second crop and sire of the third crop for 2025. This is the first time since at least 1994, which coincides with when records of third crop bulls were regularly tracked, that a single farm has been the leading sire of the first, second and third crops. Adding the overall leading sire makes the distinction all the more impressive.
Once again standing above all stallions In mischief . For the seventh consecutive year, Into Mischief was the top sire based on offspring income with $31,863,395. He had the most winners (222), the most runners (450), the most black performers (67), the highest stakes winners (17) and the most Grade 1 winners (five). The 17 graded winners match his career best (2022 and 2024), and the five Grade 1 winners remain one step away from his best streak in 2023.
Into Mischief was also the top dirt bull of the year.
While the gap between him and the No. 2 overall father, Not this time was the third smallest difference during his reign, at just a hair under $7.9 million, also not close. His top earner is probably champion 3-year-old male Sovereignty .
Into Mischief is worth $250,000.
That doesn’t take anything away from the year that Not This Time had. He led all stallions by number of black type winners (30), percentage of runners winning black type (10.2%), percentage of black type achievers (17.6%), and average earnings per runner ($81,262). Not This Time’s percentage of black type performers is the third highest percentage leading any given year since 2015. The three bulls with better percentages (Rifle runner 20.1% in 2022; War front 21.7% in 2016; and Dynaformer, 25% in 2015) all had significantly fewer runners and significantly fewer black-type runners.
Omaha Beach was the top sire of the second crop in 2024, so it was fitting that he would continue to lead his class in 2025. Led by its top earner A copy The Omaha Beach descendants earned nearly $13.7 million. The son of War Front led in almost every category: most runners (262), most winners (139), most black type winners (16), most black type performers (31), highest stakes winners (five), and was tied with Maximus Mischief as the leader in terms of number of grade 1 (two) winners.
Omaha Beach is worth $75,000 this year.
It was a similar tune for the best sophomore dad Vekoma . He was the top freshman dad a year ago and continued his upward trajectory.
He led all second-year colts with 114 winners, in addition to 15 black type winners, 31 black type horses, seven stakes winners and the average winnings per rider of $66,763. His top earner in 2025 was Golden Vekoma, who had more than $1 million in his bank account.
Vekoma is worth $100,000 this year.
It was leading among the bulls that came to the track for the first time in 2025 Jaap . His top earner was Arctic beast ($265,503), who won his first three races before finishing second in the Remington Springboard Mile Stakes.
Yaupon, by Uncle Mo, was the best among all first-year sires with 82 runners, 30 winners, a record eight black-type winners for a North American first-year sire and 13 black-type performers.
He stands for $60,000 this year.
On the turf, Not This Time defeated the best turf sire of 2024, Spinning candy with $2.5 million. Not This Time is listed for $250,000 at Taylor Made Stallions near Nicholasville, Ky.
The late Souper Speedy topped the bulls in all-weather grounds for the third year running and fourth in the last five. Souper Speedy stood at the TC Westmeath Stud Farm in Ontario, Canada, and died in 2024. His offspring earned $2.9 million, with three of his six black-type winners for the year taking stakes on Woodbine’s synthetic main track.
| TOP SEARCH BY EARNINGS MERITS | |
| December 31 rankings | Ranking December 1 |
| 1. In mischief | 1 (–) |
| 2. Not this time | 2 (–) |
| 3. Gun runner | 3 (–) |
| 4. Spinning candy | 4 (–) |
| 5. Constitution | 5 (–) |
| 6. Practical joke | 6 (–) |
| 7. Curls | 7 (–) |
| 8. Nyquist | 10 (+2) |
| 9. Candy Ride (ARG) | 8 (-1) |
| 10. Fair | 9 (-1) |
| 11. Omaha Beach | 12 (+1) |
| 12. Munnings | 11 (-1) |
| 13. Vekoma | 13 (–) |
| 14. Quality Road | 14 (–) |
| 15. Mendelssohn | 15 (–) |
| 16. Gold medal | 16 (–) |
| 17. Liam’s card | 17 (–) |
| 18. Uncle Mo | 18 (–) |
| 19. Bolt d’Oro | 19 (–) |
| 20. Ghost Zapper | 21 (+1) |
| 21. City of Light | 22 (+1) |
| 22. Golden cents | 20 (-2) |
| 23. Close | 24 (+1) |
| 24. Street feeling | 23 (-1) |
| 25. Maclean’s Music | 25 (–) |
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