There has been huge interest in the Tattersalls Online Sale (December 11 and 12) featuring eight mares in foal to Too Darn Hot (GB) to Southern Hemisphere time, so we’re taking a closer look at these girls and with two of them by Zoustar and Savabeel I’m feeling like I’m looking at an Aussie catalogue!
A champion son of Dubawi, Too Darn Hot was sorely missed in Australia this spring and would have covered a full book at Darley at his increased advertised fee of $110,000 off the back of being crowned Australia’s Champion First Season Sire of 2023/2024.
He’s had the pedal to the metal again through the first four months of the new season and is again leading his peers to be the first second crop sire to hit $3million in progeny earnings for the season with his 19 winners including five stakes-winners headed by his top class multiple Group I winning colt Broadsiding.
Australians have warmed to Too Darn Hot and if you want to be selling one at the yearling sales of 2027 the only way to do so is in acquiring a mare in foal to him that was covered in the UK this year and the following eight are ripe for the picking.
Lot 1 Believeinmiracles (2019) By Frankel. In foal first season, covering on September 18.
Winning grand-daughter of Group I Epsom Oaks winner Light Shift and closely related to 2017 Champion Older Horse and dual Group I winner Ulysses.
Proven producer, dam of four winners highlighted by Group III winner Abel Handy and Group III placed Woody Creek.
Lot 3 Cloth of Cloud (SthAfr) By Captain Al. In foal, covering on September 19.
Champion South African 2YO Filly Group I winner and is proven producer, dam of a winner Garden Route and produced a colt foal by Wootton Bassett earlier this year.
Lot 4 Crimson Coronet (GB) (2021) By Zoustar. In foal first season, covering on September 5.
Made 210,000 guineas as a yearling and is a winner from just six starts. She is a daughter of SW Crimson Rosette, a half-sister to Group I Ascot Gold Cup winner Courage Mon Ami and two more SW’s Astronomos and Lion’s Pride.
Lot 5 Withdrawn
Lot 6 Know Thyself (IRE) (2019) By Galileo. In foal first season, covering on October 1.
Multiple Group III placed daughter of top class Kiwi filly Fix, a Group II winner and Group I placed from Euro family featuring Group I winners Prophecy, Foreteller (triple G1 win Australia) and leading sire Showcasing.
Lot 7 Newton’s Night (IRE) (2017) By Galileo. In foal, covering on October 5.
Winning sister to Group III winner Dress Rehearsal and is proven producer as dam of four winners headed by this season’s SW Treasure Isle.
Lot 8 Sedaka (NZ) (2019) By Savabeel. In foal first season, covering on September 2.
Group placed twice in New Zealand and comes from international female family tracing back in tail female line to Terlingua, the dam of breed shaping sire Storm Cat.
Lot 9 Moraless (IRE) (2020) By Churchill. In foal first season, covering on October 21.
Unraced half-sister to Group II winners Hunting Horn (Moonee Valley Gold Cup) and David Livingstone from the family of Epsom Derby winner and influential sire High Chaparral, sire of leading Australian sires So You Think, Dundeel and Toronado (IRE).
