New guard for Darley - Top Godolphin colts join breeding giant's NSW roster

Broadsiding will not follow in the footsteps of his illustrious Godolphin stablemate Anamoe by racing on at four, bowing out as a four-time Group 1 winner to be arguably Australia’s most sought-after first-season sire in 2025.

Just weeks after Darley announced it had secured the return of top young sire Too Darn Hot for shuttling duties, Godolphin Australia’s stallion arm will be further boosted by the addition of his champion son Broadsiding to the NSW roster at Kelvinside.

And fellow three-year-old Traffic Warden, twice narrowly denied at Group 1 level including by Broadsiding, has also been retired to join the Darley stallion roster.

ATC Champagne Stakes and JJ Atkins winner Broadsiding, who won the Group 1 Golden Rose and Rosehill Guineas this season at three, was retired after his unplaced run in last Saturday’s Group 1 All Aged Stakes at Randwick.

A winner of seven of his 15 race starts, Broadsiding will stand for $66,000 (all fees inc GST), providing a viable option for breeders unable to access Too Darn Hot ($275,000).

Darley’s NSW nominations manager Arvin Chadee labelled Broadsiding as “the most exciting first season horse to be retiring to stud in Australia this year”, marvelling at the colt’s performances including his third placing behind world-class horses Via Sistina and Prognosis in last year’s Cox Plate.

“I think he offers Australasian breeders great value in terms of meeting market appeal, being a champion two-year-old who had the ability physically and mentally to train on to win Group 1 races at three,” Chadee told The Straight.

“His pedigree speaks for himself, being by the hottest young stallion in the world right now in Too Darn Hot out of a mare by one the greatest shuttlers ever in Street Cry.

“So, at $66,000, he offers breeders not only great value, but pardon the cliche, he genuinely does tick all the boxes.”

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A son of Street Boss, Traffic Warden is out of an Exceed And Excel sister to Golden Slipper-producing sire Sidestep, Champagne Stakes winner Skilled, Ambidexter and VRC Oaks winner Willowy.

He will stand for a fee of $22,000.

While Traffic Warden endured his share of bad luck on the track, including being a late scratching behind the barriers for last year’s The Everest, Chadee believes “he was a Group 1 horse if there ever was one”.

“The day of The Everest, he was the pick of the yard. Physically, he is just a commercial home run,” he said.

“He has great depth, great strength, a beautiful walk and great quality. He is a magnificent specimen. I feel like the Hunter Valley breeders will fall over backwards once they come to Kelvinside and put him out of his box.”

Meanwhile, Anamoe will stand his third season at Kelvinside at a slightly reduced fee of $110,000 while Harry Angel ($66,000) has earned his third consecutive fee rise through the deeds of All-Star Mile winner Tom Kitten, the unbeaten Private Harry and $4 million colt Angel Capital.

Street Boss will headline Darley’s Victorian stallion roster at Northwood Park at a fee of $66,000 with Cylinder ($44,000) and Brazen Beau ($27,500) also standing south of the Murray.

Chadee touched on the influence of Street Boss on Darley and Godolphin’s Australian operation.

“Street Boss, having done what he’s done as a stallion for Darley, has left us with the most successful Group 1 winner Godolphin has ever raced in Anamoe,” he said.

“But then we only have to look at the past 12 months with Street Boss, he had another Group 1 winner in Another Wil and two of the best two-year-olds this season with Tentyris and Tempted, both being Group 2 winners and Tempted running third in the Slipper.

“The influence of Street Boss is going to be continually felt for generations to come through Traffic Warden and, of course, Anamoe.”

In all, nine stallions will be on the NSW roster, including Bivouac and shuttler Pinatubo, with five in Victoria.

“I think he offers Australasian breeders great value in terms of meeting market appeal, being a champion two-year-old who had the ability physically and mentally to train on to win Group 1 races at three” – Darley’s Arvin Chadee on Broadsiding

First-season sire Golden Mile was withdrawn from service last spring, subsequently gelded and put back into training with James Cummings, while Frankel’s Triple Time and fellow shuttlers Blue Point and Ghaiyyath will also not return to the Darley roster this year.

Astern (Turkey) and Microphone (Brazil) have also been sold since the last southern hemisphere breeding season.