Too Darn Hot offerings headline Tattersalls’ southern hemisphere session
Tattersalls Online has announced a dedicated southern hemisphere session within its Online February Sale, which will be held on February 17 and 18 in collaboration with Inglis Digital.
The session, which is now available to view on the Tattersalls Online website, marks the third collaboration between Tattersalls Online and Inglis Digital and aims to continue to strengthen the connection between the northern and southern hemisphere markets.
The upcoming southern hemisphere session will feature a select draft from The Castlebridge Consignment, headlined by a rare opportunity to acquire southern hemisphere-bred progeny by Darley shuttler Too Darn Hot (Dubawi).
The sire of four individual Group 1 winners, including champion two-year-old and multiple Group 1 winner Broadsiding, the success of Too Darn Hot’s progeny has been particularly pronounced in the southern hemisphere, where his first crop, now four-year-olds, included ten individual stakes winners at a clip of 13 per cent stakes winners to runners. His current two-year-old crop in the southern hemisphere has produced two stakes winning juveniles from just seven runners to date.
Among the highlights of the session is a three-in-one package featuring the young mare Moraless (Churchill), offered together with her southern hemisphere-bred weanling colt by Too Darn Hot and in foal on a southern hemisphere cover to last season’s champion first-season sire, Starman (Dutch Art). Moraless is a half-sister to Moonee Valley Gold Cup (Gr 2, 2500m) winner Hunting Horn (Camelot) and Group 2 winner and Group 1-placed juvenile David Livingston (Galileo). She is out of Mora Bai (Indian Ridge), a half-sister to champion sire High Chaparral (Sadler’s Wells).
Also to be offered in the session is a September-born weanling filly by Too Darn Hot out of the proven black type-producing mare Belle Isle (Pastoral Pursuits), dam of Group 3-winning two-year-old Abel Handy (Arcano).
Having stood the 2024 southern hemisphere season at Darley’s Dalham Hall Stud in Newmarket, only 32 foals by Too Darn Hot are currently recorded on the Australian Stud Book from the 2025 foaling season.
“This southern hemisphere session offers a genuinely unique opportunity,” Tattersalls Online sales manager Katherine Sheridan said. “Too Darn Hot’s 2024 southern hemisphere foals are exceptionally limited in number and when combined with pedigrees of this quality, the appeal is clear. We are delighted to once again collaborate with Inglis Digital and to present a session that we expect will attract strong international interest.”
Inglis bloodstock CEO Sebastian Hutch added: “The collaborations with Tattersalls Online are a product of conversations that we have been having with the team at Tattersalls for a number of years and in the instances that we have executed them, they have generated good engagement and a number of excellent results.
“Katherine raised the possibility of this opportunity last month and we were very keen for Inglis Digital to be involved as we feel we can add significant value to the process. Access to Too Darn Hot was particularly limited in his fifth season because he was domiciled in England, and as such, the is a real scarcity value to these foals, particularly when analysis of who holds the balance of the crop shows that it is very unlikely that many of his offspring will be available at public auction in Australia either as weanlings in 2026 or as yearlings in 2027.”
The draft will be available for inspection prior to the sale and appointments can be made by contacting Bill Dwan or Paddy Diamond of The Castlebridge Consignment, whose details are available on the Tattersalls Online website. Full catalogue details can be viewed online at www.tattersallsonline.com.