Too Darn Hot Returns to Darley Australia for 2025 at A$275,000

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By Kit Gow/TTR AusNZ

One of the world's hottest young sires Too Darn Hot (GB) will return to Darley Australia for the 2025 breeding season, where he will stand for a fee of A$275,000 (inc GST).

The sire of champion two-year-old colt Broadsiding (Aus), electric juvenile Rivellino (Aus) and a total of 23 stakes winners worldwide was sorely missed last year after a brief illness during the Northern Hemisphere breeding season prompted connections to cancel his travel down under.

A stallion who exploded on to the Australasian racing scene with the exploits of Broadsiding in the G1 Champagne Stakes and the G1 JJ Atkins Stakes, Too Darn Hot has been popular from the start. With 10 individual stakes winners in Australia this season alone, Too Darn Hot is poised to back up his champion first-season sire title with a second-season championship as well.

“Too Darn Hot is exceptional,” said Andy Makiv, managing director of Godolphin Australia, in a Darley press release. “What he's achieved at this stage in his career is honestly remarkable. He's producing top line stakes performers and his record-breaking feats speak for themselves.

“We are excited to welcome Too Darn Hot back to Australia for the 2025 season and are grateful to the Darley team in the UK and Watership Down Stud for entrusting him to us for another season.”

With stakes winners across eight countries, 14 of which are Group winners, Too Darn Hot has sired the winners of more Group races than the champions Redoute's Choice (Aus), Fastnet Rock (Aus), I Am Invincible (Aus) and Zoustar (Aus) at the same stage of their careers.

His service fee puts him in line with the top ranks of Australia's stallion elite and he has achieved it faster than any of them, with his oldest crop just three. He has been continually popular at the sales; 16 of his 17 Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale entries sold with a top price of A$1 million and an average of A$504,375, conceived off a A$44,000 service fee.

The remainder of the 2025 Darley Australia roster is to be announced on April 22.

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