Darley’s 2024 Australian roster will see four new stallions added, but it is the bullish pricing on young stallion Too Darn Hot, whose fee has jumped from $44,000 to $110,000, which catches the eye.
Too Darn Hot, the multiple Group 1-winning son of Dubawi, secured his first Australian Group 1 winner last Saturday when Broadsiding won the Champagne Stakes at Randwick. He has eight winners from his first Australian crop and leads the race to be crowned Australia’s champion first-season sire.
However, such a significant fee rise, from $44,000 to $110,000 will take the market by surprise. The speculation ahead of stallion announcements was that service fee rises, even for boom stallions, would be moderated due to uncertainty in the commercial market.
However, Darley has backed in Too Darn Hot, who has made a considerable impression in the northern hemisphere as well with five stakes winners and 42 winners in total.
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