Cover image courtesy of Darley
One of the world’s hottest young sires Too Darn Hot (GB) will return to Darley Australia for the 2025 breeding season, where he will stand for $275,000 (inc GST).
The sire of Champion 2YO Colt Broadsiding, electric juvenile Rivellino, and a total of 23 stakes winners worldwide was sorely missed last year after a brief illness during his Northern Hemisphere breeding season prompted connections to cancel his travel down under.
A stallion that exploded on to the Australasian racing scene in the exploits of Broadsiding in the G1 Champagne Stakes and the G1 JJ Atkins Stakes, Too Darn Hot has been popular from the start. It certainly is helpful that he himself was a three-time Group 1 winner at two and three, including an impressive victory in the sire-making G1 Dewhurst Stakes - but his progeny have since done the talking for him.
Broadsiding | Image courtesy of Sportpix
With 10 individual stakes winners in Australia this season alone, Too Darn Hot is poised to back up his Champion First Season Sire with a second season championship as well. With stakes winners across eight countries, 14 of which are Group winners, he has sired the winners of more Group races than the champions Redoute’s Choice, Fastnet Rock, I Am Invincible, and Zoustar at the same stage of their careers - and the racing season isn’t over yet.
“Too Darn Hot is exceptional,” Managing Director of Godolphin Australia Andy Makiv shared in a Darley press release. "What he’s achieved at this stage in his career is honestly remarkable. He’s producing top line stakes performers, and his record-breaking feats speak for themselves.
“What he’s (Too Darn Hot) achieved at this stage in his career is honestly remarkable.” - Andy Makiv
“We are excited to welcome Too Darn Hot back to Australia for the 2025 season, and are grateful to the Darley team in the UK and Watership Down Stud for entrusting him to us for another season.”
Too Darn Hot’s service fee puts him in line with the top ranks of Australia’s stallion elite and he has achieved it faster than any of them, with his oldest crop just three. He has been continually popular at the sales; 16 of his 17 Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale entries sold with a top price of $1 million and an average of $504,375, conceived off a $44,000 service fee.
Shanwah | Image courtesy of Racing Photos
Too Darn Hot is a horse that is consistently turning out results at the top end of racing; in February, he had a Group win treble across two states thanks to Shanwah (NZ), Broadsiding, and Tropicus, and just two weeks ago, he delivered a stakes double on Rosehill Guineas day with Shanwah and Broadsiding.
He currently sits 14th in the Australian general sires’ ranking for the 2024/25 season with 38 winners from 77 starters, and has had two winners from three to run in New Zealand. An impressive one in eight of his Australian offspring to race have been a stakes winner, and one in 12 runners have been a Group winner.
Too Darn Hot (GB) | Standing at Darley
Nine stakes winners have come out of his first Southern Hemisphere crop, matching the current output from his first Northern Hemisphere crop but from a smaller number to hit the track.
The remainder of the 2025 Darley roster is to be announced on April 22.
