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 group 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 price for the brand new season.
A 3-time group 1 winner on the observe and a champion 2-year-old besides, Too Darn Sizzling has made an distinctive begin to life at stud. He has a better group winners-to-runners ratio than any stallion since Redoute’s Alternative, and has additionally produced an AU$1 million-dollar yearling in every of his first 4 crops.
From 157 Australian runners to this point, Too Darn Sizzling has sired 102 winners, 16 of them coming at stakes stage and 10 at group stage, 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 group at New South Wales’ Kelvinside base is Anamoe (Road 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 Road Boss has managed the perfect first crop common in historical past on the gross sales, with over 60 yearlings having been offered at a median of AU$400,000, led by an AU$1.1 million prime lot.
Anamoe was a nine-time group 1 winner on the observe, 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 by way of the standard of stallion that we provide at Darley Australia,” Darley Kelvinside’s nominations supervisor, Arvin Chadee informed ANZ Information.
“The roster is a phenomenal mix between thrilling first-season sires, confirmed sires, after which future champions. Our entire roster can serve any worth level, and it might serve any breeder calls for or market necessities.”
Different standout performers on the observe that at the moment are making headlines as glorious 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 yr after his retirement this week.
Ghiayyath is returning to Darley Australia at a price of AU$88,000, having final stood in 2024 at AU$27,500.
In the meantime, Harry Angel, himself a twin elite-level winner on the observe, might be returning for the eighth consecutive yr at an elevated price of AU$88,000 (up from $66,000) following top-drawer performances from the likes of All-Star Mile (G1) hero Tom Kitten, Warfare Machine, and Angel Capital.
“Our greatest benefit at Darley could be the truth that the Godolphin race plans assist their stallions closely,” Chadee mentioned when requested on stallions’ performances on the observe.
“So lots of people would have supported Harry Angel at first of his stallion profession when he was standing for lower than AU$20,000, and they might’ve reaped large sale rewards from it to date, with an apparent one being Tom Kitten.
“Too Darn Sizzling is identical, having initially stood for AU$44,000, and having had Broadsiding achieve success on the observe, 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 optimistic 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—might be out there 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 fashionable as you’ll be able to 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 pace machine.
“Then on the flipside of that, we additionally get to face a phenomenal son of Ghaiyyath in Observer, who might be essentially the most thrilling new sire line from that Dubawi line alongside Too Darn Sizzling.
“He was an Australian Guineas winner and, by way of 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 fashionable.”
Depth within the roster is signified by way of stallions comparable to Broadsiding (AU$55,000), shuttlers Pinatubo (AU$27,500) and Native Path ($22,000), who have been all champion juveniles, and Victorian stalwart Road Boss , who has sired 4 particular person group 1 winners this season alone and stays unchanged at AU$66,000.
Chadee, nevertheless, is most wanting ahead to seeing the continuation of assist for Road Boss’s son, Site visitors Warden, at an unchanged price of AU$22,000. Site 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 among my favourite darkish horses on the roster and one in every of my favourite varieties is Site visitors Warden,” Chadee mentioned.
“When he comes out of the barn at Kelvinside, folks simply fall over backwards about how a lot of a phenomenal specimen he’s.
“It is no secret how properly Road Boss has completed this yr with the likes of Tempted and Tentyris, Pericles and Inexperienced Areas, and Site visitors Warden was the epitome of pure 2-year-old pace.”
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 observe file—and final weekend’s All Aged Stakes (G1) at Randwick. He’ll stand at a good price 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 can have his first weanlings supplied this yr, and Brazen Beau (AU$27,500), who loved one other glorious 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.