Cover image courtesy of The Image Is Everything
Second in the G3 Alexandra Stakes on Saturday, Too Darn Lizzie (Too Darn Hot {GB}) almost gave her sire three Group winners on Saturday. Broadsiding won his fourth Group 1 in the G1 Rosehill Guineas, while Shanwah (NZ) won the G2 Alister Clark Stakes to make it four wins in succession.
A seven figure yearling
Too Darn Lizzie has already lit up the sale ring, making seven figures as a yearling. Sold by Vinery Stud at the 2023 Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale, Too Darn Lizzie sold to McKeever Bloodstock, Watership Downs, and Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott for a cool $1 million.
With a price tag like that comes a deep pedigree, and aside from being by the highly commercial successful sire Too Darn Hot (GB), Too Darn Lizzie is the second foal of G2 Blue Diamond Prelude (fillies) winner Enbihaar (Magnus), who was second in the G1 Blue Diamond Stakes behind Written By. Enbihaar has an unraced 2-year-old colt Celtics (I Am Invincible), a colt-foal by Too Darn Hot, and she is in foal to Zoustar.
Too Darn Lizzie as a yearling | Image courtesy of Magic Millions
Enbihaar’s 2-year-old full sister Miss Celine won this season’s Listed Debutant Stakes for trainers Lindsay Park, and she holds nominations for the G1 Sires’ Produce Stakes on April 5 and the G2 Percy Sykes Stakes on April 12.
Miss Celine and Enbihaar are two of the four winners produced by Listed Mode Plate winner Charm’s Honour (Strada), and this is the family of G1 Champagne Stakes winner Quick Star (Success Express {USA}).
Talent on display on debut
Trained by Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott, Too Darn Lizzie, won on debut in the Magic Millions 2YO Debut (fillies) in January 2024 on the Gold Coast. The stable brought her back to Sydney, where she ran in the third in the G2 Reisling Stakes, before a mid-field effort in the G2 Percy Sykes Stakes.
Sent for a spell, Too Darn Lizzie returned at three to resume in the G2 Furious Stakes, before heading to Melbourne, where she found form. Third in the Listed Jim Moloney Stakes, Too Darn Lizzie returned to the winner’s circle in the G2 Thousand Guineas Prelude. The effort saw her beat Zeitung (Exceed And Excel), who won the G3 Vanity Stakes at her next start, and Tasmania’s darling Geegees Mistruth (Wordsmith), who had been an unbeaten juvenile with four wins, two at Listed level, who then returned back to Tasmania, after this run to add two Group 3 wins.
Too Darn Lizzie winning the Magic Millions 2YO Debut | Image courtesy of The Image Is Everything
Too Darn Lizzie fought hard to run third in the G1 Thousand Guineas, won by Another Prophet (Brazen Beau), with Aeliana (NZ) (Castelvecchio) in second.
This autumn, Too Darn Lizzie has had three starts for three placings; third in the G2 Angus Armanasco Stakes, second in the G2 AV Kewney Stakes, and second in Saturday’s G3 Alexandra Stakes.
Hot, hot, hot
As a 3-year-old filly, Too Darn Lizzie represents an enticing racing or breeding future for her buyers. Her sire, Too Darn Hot, has 23 stakes winners with his oldest foals having just turned four in the Northern Hemisphere, and are 3-year-olds in the Southern Hemisphere.
Such early success for a young stallion is the reason why he’s no longer shuttling to Australia. Among his 23 stakes winners are four-time Group 1 winner Broadsiding, and Northern Hemisphere first crop, Group 1 winners Fallen Angel (GB), and Hotazhell (GB).
Too Darn Hot (GB) | Standing at Darley Stud
Too Darn Hot’s other local stakes winners include exciting juvenile colt Rivellino, who won the G2 Skyline Stakes, and was fourth in Saturday’s G1 Golden Slipper, Shanwah, G2 Edward Manifold Stakes winner Too Darn Discreet, G3 Peter Le Grand Stakes winner Arabian Summer, and Listed winners Perspiration, Silmarillion, and Superalloy.
The Inglis Chairman’s Sale takes place on the evening of Thursday May 8 at their Riverside Stables complex in Warwick Farm.
