Celebrity shuttler Too Darn Sizzling will as soon as once more headline Darley Australia’s roster for 2026 because the top-class nursery revealed a 16-strong staff throughout each Kelvinside and Northwood Park April 23.
Having stood the 2025 breeding season for AU$275,000 (all charges inc GST), the son of Dubawi will stay at that payment for the brand new season.
A 3-time group 1 winner on the monitor and a champion 2-year-old as well, Too Darn Sizzling has made an distinctive begin to life at stud. He has the next group winners-to-runners ratio than any stallion since Redoute’s Selection, and has additionally produced an AU$1 million yearling in every of his first 4 crops.
From 157 Australian runners so far, Too Darn Sizzling has sired 102 winners, 16 of them coming at stakes degree and 10 at group degree, working at a stakes winners-to-runners ratio of a whopping 10.2%—headed by elite-level winners Broadsiding (who additionally stands on the roster) and Tropicus.
Additionally heading up the staff at New South Wales’ Kelvinside base is Anamoe (Avenue Boss), one other top-class racehorse that has delivered within the gross sales ring and who can be unchanged from 2025 at AU$110,000.
The son of Avenue Boss has managed one of the best first crop common in historical past on the gross sales, with over 60 yearlings having been bought at a mean of AU$400,000, led by an AU$1.1 million prime lot.
Anamoe was a nine-time group 1 winner on the monitor, resulting in him being topped Australian Horse of the 12 months in 2023.
“We’ve got a complete of 16 stallions throughout each Kelvinside and Northwood Park, between them there are 43 group 1 wins and 12 champion titles, so we’re spoilt for riches when it comes to the standard of stallion that we provide at Darley Australia,” Darley Kelvinside’s nominations supervisor Arvin Chadee advised ANZ Information.
“The roster is a lovely mix between thrilling first-season sires, confirmed sires, after which future champions. Our entire roster can serve any value level, and it may well serve any breeder calls for or market necessities.”
Different standout performers on the monitor that are actually making headlines as wonderful shuttle sires are Ghaiyyath and Harry Angel .
4-time group 1 winner Ghaiyyath, who was topped the World’s Finest Racehorse of 2020, boasts an distinctive 11% stakes winners-to-runners ratio from his first Southern Hemisphere crop, spearheaded by Australian Guineas (G1) and Victoria Derby (G1) hero Observer, who joins his father on the Northwood Park roster this 12 months after his retirement this week.
Ghaiyyath is returning to Darley Australia at a payment of AU$88,000, having final stood in 2024 at AU$27,500.
Photograph: Patrick McCann/Racing PostGhaiyyath at Kildangan Stud
In the meantime, Harry Angel, himself a twin elite-level winner on the monitor, shall be returning for the eighth consecutive 12 months at an elevated payment of AU$88,000 (up from $66,000) following top-drawer performances from the likes of All-Star Mile (G1) hero Tom Kitten, Conflict Machine, and Angel Capital.
“Our largest benefit at Darley can be the truth that the Godolphin race plans assist their stallions closely,” Chadee stated when requested on stallions’ performances on the monitor.
“So lots of people would have supported Harry Angel firstly of his stallion profession when he was standing for lower than AU$20,000, and they’d’ve reaped large sale rewards from it to this point, with an apparent one being Tom Kitten.
“Too Darn Sizzling is similar, having initially stood for AU$44,000, and having had Broadsiding achieve success on the monitor, it then improved the gross sales of Too Darn Sizzling’s progeny following this success.
“We attempt to get our horses to win as many stakes races as attainable, as that solely has a constructive impact on breeders than promoting yearlings by our stallions.”
Ghaiyyath’s twin classic-winning son Observer has been launched at AU$33,000, whereas sprinting star Tentyris—additionally introduced this week—shall be obtainable at Kelvinside for AU$88,000.
“The general public and market response to saying each Tentyris and Observer has been astronomical,” Chadee revealed.
“They’ve been extraordinarily well-liked as you may think about, and we’re so lucky right here at Darley that we get the possibility to face stallions with as a lot high quality as Tentyris, the quickest Coolmore Stud Stakes winner in historical past. He was a real Australian velocity machine.
“Then on the flipside of that, we additionally get to face a lovely son of Ghaiyyath in Observer, who might be probably the most thrilling new sire line from that Dubawi line alongside Too Darn Sizzling.
“He was an Australian Guineas winner and, when it comes to his stallion profile, he’s the primary Guineas winner over a mile from that Dubawi sire line to face in Australia since Evening of Thunder, and we all know how properly he did. They’ve each been very talked-about.”
Depth within the roster is signified by way of stallions similar to Broadsiding (AU$55,000), shuttlers Pinatubo (AU$27,500) and Native Path (AU$22,000), who had been all champion juveniles, and Victorian stalwart Avenue Boss , who has sired 4 particular person group 1 winners this season alone and stays unchanged at AU$66,000.
Chadee, nonetheless, is most wanting ahead to seeing the continuation of assist for Avenue Boss’s son, Visitors Warden, at an unchanged payment of AU$22,000. Visitors Warden gained each the VRC Sires’ Produce Stakes (G2) and The Run To The Rose (G2) and loved loads of assist at Kelvinside in 2025 forward of his first foals this spring.
“One in all my favourite darkish horses on the roster and one among my favourite sorts is Visitors Warden,” Chadee stated.
“When he comes out of the barn at Kelvinside, folks simply fall over backwards about how a lot of a lovely specimen he’s.
“It is no secret how properly Avenue Boss has carried out this 12 months with the likes of Tempted and Tentyris, Pericles and Inexperienced Areas, and Visitors Warden was the epitome of pure 2-year-old velocity.”
One other that Chadee talked about at Kelvinside is Bivouac, who’s had a breakout season within the barn, having sired Beiwacht to victory within the Golden Rose (G1)—the place he broke the Rosehill monitor report—and final weekend’s All Aged Stakes (G1) at Randwick. He’ll stand at a good payment of AU$33,000, down from AU$55,000 in each 2025 and 2024 and AU$66,000 in his three prior years at stud.
Rounding out the roster for Darley Australia are Newmarket Handicap (G1) winner Cylinder (AU$33,000), who may have his first weanlings provided this 12 months, and Brazen Beau (AU$27,500), who loved one other wonderful autumn with a spate of current stakes performers. Kermadec (AU$11,000) and Paulele (AU$11,000) additionally provide confirmed and accessible choices for breeders.
