Are You on the Too Darn Hot Train?

Tara Madgwick - Thursday October 6

If you are an Australian breeder that has been supporting Darley shuttler Too Darn Hot (GB) then results coming out of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale Book 1 this week will have you feeling pretty chuffed!

The top lot at the sale during the second session sold for 2.8million guineas making him the highest priced yearling sold anywhere in the world this year and he is by Frankel from a full sister to Too Darn Hot in Group III winning Dubawi mare So Mi Dar.

2.8million guinea Frankel colt from So Mi Dar, the full sister to Too Dar Hot.

He was bought by Godolphin so will get every opportunity to excel.

"It is always a shame to sell the wonderful stock out of the Dar Re Mi family, but we just have to. He is a particularly beautiful colt, he looks so like his father Frankel yet he has the Dar Re Mi line and the beautiful head. He walked beautifully, I could not really fault him. We obviously loved him, we are delighted that Godolphin bought him and he is going to stay here and be trained brilliantly. We could not have hoped for anything better really,” said Watership Down Stud’s owner Madeleine Lloyd Webber.

880,000 guinea Siyouni filly from Lah Ti Dar, another full sister to Too Darn Hot.

Watership Down Stud had another big result at the sale the day before with a Siyouni filly from Too Darn Hot’s Group II winning full sister Lah Ti Dar making 880,000 guineas when snapped up by Shadwell Stud, with Sheikha Hissa in attendance.

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"We are delighted with the price and feel it is an excellent one. She is a very nice filly and we have an enormous amount of the family to breed from on the farm. We are thrilled that Angus Gold, Shadwell and Sheikha Hissa have purchased her. She is a fantastic filly for anyone breeding and we are incredibly lucky to have been breeding from this fantastic family for 25 years. We wish Sheikha Hissa the very best of luck with her,” said Watership Down Stud’s manager Simon Marsh.

600,000 guinea Too Darn Hot colt from Fastnet Rock mare Turret Rocks

The first yearlings by Too Darn Hot have also been selling this week and he achieved the highest price for a first season sire at the sale when David Redvers purchased a colt from Group II winning Fastnet Rock mare Turret Rocks for 600,000 guineas.

An undefeated Champion 2YO that trained on to win two more Group I races at three, Too Darn Hot is back at Darley in the Hunter Valley for his third season this spring, again priced at $44,000, the same fee at which he has stood for the past two years covering 261 mares.

The first Australian bred Too Darn Hot yearlings will sell in 2023.

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