The sire’s name honours an exceptional individual – a Cartier 2yo european champion – be reminded of Too Darn Hot talent. 🏆⬇️

Few years back when sire Too Darn Hot came to Australia, one could detect that the downunder siring surely would deliver.

🐴TOO DARN HOT (GB) (Bay 2016-Stud GB 2020, Aust. 2020). 6 wins-4 at 2, Newmarket Dewhurst S., Gr.1. Leading First Season Sire in Aust. in 2023-24. Sire of 168 rnrs, 70 wnrs, 12 SW. His oldest SH-bred progeny are 3YOs and inc SW Broadsiding (ATC Champagne S., Gr.1), SP Arabian Summer, Too Darn Lizzie, Silmarillion, Trembles, Superalloy, etc. His NH-bred progeny inc SW Fallen Angel, Darnation, Etes Vous Prets (races in Japan)

As reading about pre-WW II breeding empires: Romania had such remarkable lines, the best of St Simon descendants in the imported French sires & dams that produced highly successful progeny. Tragically these were wiped within a 24 hour span from stud book record, taken forcibly and worse. The occupied countries had animals forcibly withdrawn disqualified from running on any racecourse, particularly France. Breeding diminished even to British Studs as Studs were forced to decline breeding pools by 40% as a Ministry of Agriculture policy was to plough land for feeding produce.

That ‘signature in tragedy’ is comprehending what brilliance came by breeding like the unbeaten two-year-olds Boer Bibi and *Firdaussi from numerous crosses to St Simon gene-diversity availability. Breeders proudly built success; it paid its way handsomely and an Industry grew healthy.

As it is today...comprehending sorry states of the St Simon (Byerley Turk) stands awfully & extremely weak. http://suziprichard-jones.com/the-byerley-turk-godolphin-conservation-project/ reiterates why decline goes severe and drastic.

Its retrospection upon these Highly distinctive pedigrees is to carefully discern still a phenotype character – a landscape to recover and thence undoubtedly the ecological type development came to sire Too Darn Hot (GB).

Firdaussi died from heart failure during the covering season of 1946. With him was lost, the last stallion of International class in Romania. Breeding in Roumania 1939 – 1946

In lines To Darn Hot, features the exquisite French sire Herbager, inbred through dam Flagette (FR) 2x Firdaussi.

Stacking up Herbager is prodigious. Too Darn Hot > Herbager 7x7x5 (Sea Hawk & Ballade)

Herbager’s pedigree is the mare Vanille, dam of Vandale. She is by Professional Chef-de-Race Lar Farina-Vaya by Beppo.

Too Darn Hot🐴🏆🐴 15x Teddy. If (of all) Varola’s top classic sires were again newly embraced, and for mine first up, would be @Teddy line-bred descendancy anytime. He foaled 1913 – sold 2yo for Fr 5,400, unraced at 2yo due to WWI, French and Spanish Champion 3 yo colt raced in France, raced once in 1917 entered stud in 1918. He sired Asterus (FR), siring daughter Astronomie famed to the Delsy distaff @ 3×4 Astronomie and dam-line of Too Darn Hot. Astronomie has 4 lines to the 2yo colt G1 winner Hotazhell (Too Darn Hot – Azenar by Danehill Dancer)

The French classic bred went for stamina and staying ability. Teddy of the female family 2-n indicates @Haplotye L4. Herbager (FR) through his sire Vandale (FR) appears to be firstly, main carrier @Haplotye through Vanille/Vaya (FR). But there IS another in affinity-pedigree, Le Fabuleux. His broodmare sire, Verso II, was out of the mare Variete (La Farina-Vaya by Beppo). Variete is a full sister to Vanille, dam of Herbager’s sire Vandale. Thus where Herbager and Le Fabuleux appear there comes a cross in full sister. (ex E. Parker, http://www.reines-de-course.com)

@ family 3-c and as dams are very special because it is the Haplotype A1a + 9479T>C. Its significance maybe an Andalusian root mare. Blending into hybrid vigour and sires carrying it appear to be phenomenal breeders and producers. And ’tis newly noticed… Too Darn Hot‘s filly 2yo & 3yo G1 winner, Fallen Angel carries this family strain (#f.f.3-c) through the French sire Hautain (FR), as 4th dam sire of Balbonella (FR) dam of Key of Luck (USA). Balbonella is also dam of US sprinter Anabaa (Danzig).

Stage Magic the dam of Justify (USA) carries Tulyar – a great broodmare sire. Tulyar has a line of Vaya via his paternal great grandsire (Prince Chimay-Vashti by Sans Souci II – Vaya)

More about Herbager lines (link here)

Too Darn Hot has full brother De Treville standing in France ⬇️⬇️

A Wonderful Family that just keeps Giving