Tattersalls Online has announced a dedicated Southern Hemisphere Session within its Online February Sale, to be held on Tuesday 17th – Wednesday 18th February, in collaboration with leading Australian auction house Inglis Digital.
The session, which is now available to view on the Tattersalls Online website at www.tattersallsonline.com, marks the third collaboration between Tattersalls Online and Inglis Digital and aims to continue to strengthen the connection between the Northern and Southern Hemisphere markets.
The upcoming Southern Hemisphere Session will feature a select draft from The Castlebridge Consignment, headlined by an exceptionally rare opportunity to acquire Southern Hemisphere-bred progeny by one of the most influential young stallions in the world, TOO DARN HOT.
Making a significant impact in both hemispheres, TOO DARN HOT is already the sire of four individual Group 1 winners, including Champion two-year-old and multiple Group 1 winner BROADSIDING, Group 1 Tattersalls Irish 1,000 Guineas winner FALLEN ANGEL and Group 1 Futurity Stakes hero HOTAZHELL. The international sire sensation is responsible for 31 individual Stakes winners and 52 black type horses around the world.
The success of his progeny has been particularly pronounced in the Southern Hemisphere, where his first crop, now four-year-olds, included 10 individual Stakes winners at a rate of 13% Stakes winners/runners. His current two-year-old crop in the Southern Hemisphere has produced two stakes winning juveniles from just 7 runners to date.
Among the highlights of the session is a three-in-one package featuring the young mare MORALESS, offered together with her Southern Hemisphere-bred weanling colt by TOO DARN HOT and in foal on a Southern Hemisphere cover to Champion First Season Sire STARMAN. By CHURCHILL, MORALESS is a half-sister to Group 2 Moonee Valley Gold Cup winner HUNTING HORN and Group 2 winner and Group 1 placed juvenile DAVID LIVINGSTON. She is out of MORA BAI, a half-sister to Champion sire HIGH CHAPARRAL.
Group 1 winning sprinter STARMAN has similarly made a remarkable start to his stud career in Ireland. His first crop includes Group 1 Prix Morny winner VENETIAN SUN, while demand for his stock was underlined in 2025 when his second-crop yearlings sold for up to 525,000 guineas (A$1.075m), confirming his growing commercial momentum.
Also to be offered in the session is a September-born weanling filly by TOO DARN HOT out of the proven black type-producing mare BELLE ISLE, dam of Group 3 Cornwallis Stakes winning two-year-old ABEL HANDY and Group 3 placed sprinter WOODY CREEK. The filly hails from a fast, established family and represents another rare chance to secure Southern Hemisphere bloodlines by this elite sire.
Having stood the 2024 Southern Hemisphere season at Darley’s Dalham Hall Stud in Newmarket due to ill health, only 32 foals by TOO DARN HOT are currently recorded on the Australian Stud Book from the 2025 foaling season. One of the most exciting sires of his generation, this draft presents a rare opportunity to invest in a limited numbers of foals born by the stallion from that year.
Tattersalls Online Sales Manager Katherine Sheridan commented:
“This Southern Hemisphere Session offers a genuinely unique opportunity. Too Darn Hot’s 2024 Southern Hemisphere foals are exceptionally limited in number and when combined with pedigrees of this quality, the appeal is clear. We are delighted to once again collaborate with Inglis Digital and to present a session that we expect will attract strong international interest.”
Inglis Bloodstock CEO Sebastian Hutch added: “The collaborations with Tattersalls Online are a product of conversations that we have been having with the team at Tattersalls for a number of years and in the instances that we have executed them, they have generated good engagement and a number of excellent results.”
“Katherine raised the possibility of this opportunity last month and we were very keen for Inglis Digital to be involved as we feel we can add significant value to the process.”
“Access to Too Darn Hot was particularly limited in his fifth season because he was domiciled in England, and as such, the is a real scarcity value to these foals, particularly when analysis of who holds the balance of the crop shows that it is very unlikely that many of his offspring will be available at public auction in Australia either as weanlings in 2026 or as yearlings in 2027.”
“Very simply, as an owner or a trader, if you want part of the action with the fifth southern hemisphere crop of Too Darn Hot, you have to look very carefully that these offerings,” said Hutch.
The draft will be available for inspection prior to the sale and appointments can be made by contacting Bill Dwan or Paddy Diamond of The Castlebridge Consignment, whose details are available on the Tattersalls Online website.
For further information, please contact Katherine Sheridan (katherine.sheridan@tattersalls.com) or Inglis Bloodstock Sales Manager Harry Bailey (harry.bailey@inglis.com.au).
Full catalogue details can be viewed online at www.tattersallsonline.com.
