In an thrilling coup for Australian breeders, Darley has introduced that elite stallion Too Darn Scorching will return to Kelvinside for the 2025 Southern Hemisphere breeding season, the place he’ll stand for a payment of AU$275,000 (approx. US$170,000).
The payment is consultant of a monumental bounce from the son of Dubawi ‘s earlier seasons standing at Kelvinside, however one that’s reflective of the younger stallion’s unimaginable achievements within the breeding barn.
Too Darn Scorching arrived in 2020 for his maiden masking season in Australia at a payment of AU$44,000 and remained at that determine for an additional three seasons earlier than being introduced his payment would rise to AU$110,000 in 2024, however shortly after the plans to shuttle him final season had been shelved altogether.
As excessive a leap as which will appear, that is no regular stallion. A a number of group 1 winner on the monitor and a son of elite-level winner and Darley’s supreme stallion Dubawi and out of the group 1-winning mare Dar Re Mi , a lot was anticipated from Too Darn Scorching within the breeding barn, nevertheless not many might have predicted what he has delivered in a comparatively quick area of time.
Since having his first runners hit the bottom in 2023, Too Darn Scorching has sired 150 particular person winners from simply 273 starters worldwide, with 23 of these winners at stakes degree and 14 at group degree, together with a trio of elite-level winners.Join BloodHorse Every day
Of these 150 winners, 43 have are available Australia from a complete of 82 starters at a strike price of 54.9%. He has had a complete of 10 stakes winners in Australia to this point—seven of these on the group degree—headed by four-time top-flight scorer Broadsiding.
His outcomes for the 2023-24 season noticed Too Darn Scorching topped the champion first-season sire, a class he led each in earnings and by the quantity of winners in a show of dominance hardly ever seen.
He additionally completed runner-up on the main Australian 2-year-old sires listing that yr, as his first-crop outcomes noticed him set an earnings document for any first-season sire in Australian historical past at a season-ending AU$4,164,810.
Too Darn Scorching’s spectacular run of outcomes has continued into his second season of progeny in Australia, with the stallion at present a transparent chief within the second-season sire’s desk and, fairly remarkably, simply greater than AU$300,000 in prize cash away from being inside the highest 10 within the basic sires’ listing, the place he at present resides in 14th place.
“It is extraordinarily thrilling to have him again,” Darley Australia’s head of gross sales Alistair Pulford advised ANZ Bloodstock Information.
“When it was introduced final yr that he wasn’t coming again it was very a lot as a result of they needed to offer him a yr off and it wasn’t a everlasting choice.
“We’re very grateful to the crew at Darley UK and to Watership Down Stud that they’ve agreed to shuttle him once more as a result of he is simply such stallion and to have him right here to cowl not simply Godolphin’s mares, however a few of the finest mares within the nation, goes to be implausible.”
Given he stands for £90,000 at Dalham Corridor Stud in Newmarket, coupled with the actual fact he has sired 13 particular person stakes winners within the Northern Hemisphere already—together with group 1 winners Fallen Angel and Hotazhell —Darley’s founder and proprietor Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum might have been forgiven for deciding to maintain Too Darn Scorching in the UK, nevertheless Pulford rightly identified that isn’t a route His Highness has taken previously.
“He is by no means shied away from sending his highest stallions and Most worthy horses right here within the 22 years we have been in existence,” Pulford mentioned.
“He by no means shied from sending Bernardini down when he was the most well liked horse in America, Medaglia d’Oro who he invested some huge cash in after his first unbelievable crop in America, and when New Method received the Derby he was on the shuttle books, so his dedication to Australia has by no means wavered and that is the way you create legacies.
“It’s a must to be dedicated and Too Darn Scorching has an opportunity to create a legacy for himself and for everybody that’s concerned with him.”
