Too Darn Hot’s breeding presence in Australia was never more evident than when Too Darn Discreet and Too Darn Lizzie both won Group races at Caulfield on Saturday, 19 October. Brave filly Too Darn Discreet completed a hat-trick of wins and notched her second Stakes victory when she won the G3 Ethereal Stakes. Stepping up to 2,000m for the first time, after scoring in the G2 Edward Manifold Stakes at Flemington two weeks earlier, Too Darn Discreet tackled the leaders three-wide from the 700m pole before staving off Jenni’s Meadow to win by a long neck. Femminile was a similar margin away on third place.
Out of the Stakes-winning Shamardal mare Maybe Discreet, Too Darn Discreet took her record to three wins and one placing from six starts for prize money of $371,825 under Ballarat trainer Dan O’Sullivan. Bred by David Peacock in South Australia, the three-year-old is now one of the top fancies for the G1 VRC Oaks at Flemington on 7 November.
Two races later, Too Darn Lizzie led all the way for her first Stakes victory in beating Zeitung and Geegees Mistruth by two lengths under Tim Clark. The filly, out of G2 Blue Diamond Prelude (fillies) winner Enbihaar, enhanced her record to two wins and two placings from six starts for earnings of $545,500 for co-trainers Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott.
Offered by Vinery Stud as agent and purchased for $1,000,000 at last year’s Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale by McKeever Bloodstock, Watership Down and Waterhouse and Bott, the filly is owned by Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber and his good friend Lizzie Spender.
Too Darn Hot has enjoyed remarkable success in a short time, also siring Broadsiding to win the G1 Golden Rose and Perspiration the Listed Heritage Stakes at Rosehill Gardens last month, while Hotazhell saluted in the G2 Beresford Stakes at the Curragh. Too Darn Hot now has 101 winners of 157 races worldwide, including 16 Stakes winners of 27 Black-Type races.
