Vekoma dominates 2025 Second-Crop Sire list
January 3, 2026
Vekoma, the leading Second-Crop sire of 2025 by a wide margin by nearly every metric, has now been champion sire of his crop in each of his first two years at stud.
The only Second-Crop sire with over 100 winners, at 117, Vekoma had seven graded winners and 15 stakes winners overall. He had stakes winners on both dirt and turf, at distances from six furlongs to 1 1/8-miles.
Vekoma was also the second leading sire of 3-year-olds, behind only the incomparable Into Mischief, and was in the top 10 among all sires of 2-year-olds.
The breeders responded in kind to the on-track results, with Vekoma covering 211 mares in 2025. He got 2026 off to a hot start when Alpyland won the Dania Beach S. on New Year’s Day at Gulfstream Park.
Vekoma will stand the 2026 season for $100,000 S&N.