When it was announced that Champion First and Second Season Sire Too Darn Hot (GB) wouldn’t shuttle in 2024, Rosemont Stud joined several other Australian breeders in electing to send mares from Australia to be covered by him to Southern Hemisphere time. The Stud Book have, so far, received records for 30 live foals born this spring by him.
“We’ve got a couple of beauties, so we are really pleased. Sneaky Five had a lovely foal,” said Rosemont Stud’s Ryan McEvoy.
Ryan McEvoy | Image courtesy of Magic Millions
Early speed and a sense of timing
Sneaky Five (Fastnet Rock) was a precocious filly, winning the R.Listed Inglis Banner Stakes on debut, followed by the Golden Gift two weeks later. This year both races, at Flemington and Randwick respectively, run this Saturday, meaning that Sneaky Five’s achievement can’t be repeated in 2025.
Her Too Darn Hot filly is her second foal, her first being a GB born filly by Siyouni (Fr).
Gallery: Too Darn Hot (GB) x Sneaky Five filly, Images courtesy of Rosemont Stud
“She’s well built, strong forward filly with great bone and substance. A filly with an eye-catching shape and obvious characteristics of both Too Darn Hot and Fastnet Rock.”
Sneaky Five, who also won the G3 Thoroughbred Club Stakes and Listed Bribie Handicap, is a daughter of G1 Schweppes Oaks winner Small Minds (Canny Lad) who also produced Listed Jungle Dawn Classic winner Beautiful Mind (So You Think {NZ}).
“She’s (Too Darn Hot x Sneaky Five filly) well built, strong forward filly with great bone and substance.” - Ryan McEvoy
“She’s bred on the emerging Too Darn Hot Fastnet Rock cross which has produced multiple Group 1 performing filly Simmering and indeed Tuesday’s Rosemont bred Maribyrnong Plate winner Tornado Valley.”
Rosemont bred G3 Maribyrnong Plate winner Tornado Valley (Too Darn Hot {GB}) from Fastnet Rock mare Oklahoma Girl. Group 2 winner and G1 Moyglare Stud Stakes and G1 One Thousand Guineas-placed Simmering (GB) is out of Cashla Bay (GB) (Fastnet Rock), while the same cross has also resulted in stakes placed Glacius (GB), Jenni The Fox, and Ornithology.
Sending mares to Europe for Too Darn Hot
The decision not the shuttle Too Darn Hot in 2024 was the result of a minor illness that affected him during the 2024 Northern Hemisphere season, and Darley UK decided not to put the horse on a plane to assist with his recovery.
They opened up his book to Southern Hemisphere clients, and Rosemont Stud took advantage.
“We had some mares up there and we were keen to use him, and then it was announced mid-year that he was going to stay in the UK. We were able to double down a bit with the mares we were going to send to him here.
Too Darn Hot (GB) | Standing at Darley
“They were dry mares, so it was okay to send them up. We had three mares up there due to foal to Siyouni, so once they foaled they went to him too. It was a good result, and got all six mares in foal.
“It worked out well, and he’s a phenomenal young stallion. We were pleased to get behind him.”
“It worked out well, and he’s (Too Darn Hot) a phenomenal young stallion. We were pleased to get behind him.” - Ryan McEvoy
Too Darn Hot, a Group 1 winner at two and a dual Group 1 winner at three, has 29 stakes winners and his oldest crop are 4-year-olds. Champion 2YO Colt and Champion 3YO Colt Broadsiding, winner of four Group 1 races, headlines his Australian crops, and he has three Group 1 winners in Europe.
Parallels to Henry Longfellow
Too Darn Hot is a son of Dubawi (Ire), and the sire line is flying currently with sons like Ghaiyyath (Ire) siring the G1 Victoria Derby winner Observer this week. In the Northern Hemisphere, Night Of Thunder (Ire) is on track for his first Champion Sire title. Rosemont Stud have leapt into the trend with their first season sire Henry Longfellow (Ire).
“We are big fans of that Dubawi sire line. We were rapt to secure Henry Longfellow for Rosemont and he’s been a popular young stallion as well.
Dubawi (Ire) | Standing at Darley
“He’s popular, really well received by the market. He’s a fast Dubawi Group 1 winning 2-year-old out of a phenomenal daughter of Galileo in Minding who was a seven-time Group 1 winner before she’d even turned four. He was always going to hit the mark with that profile.
“He’s terrific, a beautiful horse who is covering well. It’s nice to see a horse like Ghaiyyath who is more of your middle distance stallion but both bred on the same Dubawi Galileo cross, as is Night of Thunder in the UK and his stats are off the charts.
“Any stallion by Dubawi out of a good Galileo mare seems to be working, so it augers well for Henry Longfellow.”
Henry Longfellow | Standing at Rosemont Stud
Henry Longfellow stands his first season at Rosemont Stud in 2025 for $22,000 including GST.
