Magic Millions First Season Sires – Too Darn Hot

Tara Madgwick - Wednesday January 4

Breednet’s popular First Season Sire Gallery pages are now created offering a fast and easy way to compare yearlings by the new wave of sires on type, so given the massive interest in our story on most successful sires of SW’s in 2022 we decided we better take a look at Dubawi’s champion son Too Darn Hot (GB).

Too Darn Hot (GB)

Bred and raced by Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Watership Down Stud, Too Darn Hot was injured as a foal which is how he came to be retained to race rather than offered for sale as a yearling.

He was undefeated at two winning each of his four starts culminating in a two and three-quarter length win in the Group I Dewhurst Stakes (7f) beating subsequent triple G1 winner Advertise and Epsom Derby winner Anthony Van Dyk.

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At three, he was Champion 3YO Colt adding G1 wins to his resume in the Deauville Prix Jean Prat (7f) and Goodwood Sussex stakes (1m) before retiring to stand at Darley with six wins and three placings from nine starts.

Too Darn Hot was Champion European 2YO and 3YO Colt.

 

On the pedigree front, Too Darn Hot comes from a superb female family being a brother to Group winners Lah Ti Dar and So Mi Dar from Champion Older Mare and triple G1 winner Dar Re Mi. It’s G1 quality through and through, albeit leaning more towards the staying end of the distance range, although he himself displayed real brilliance with his best distance 1400 to 1600m.

 

He has 21 yearlings catalogued in Books 1 and 2 with images below.

Click to see all his images.

 

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