Too Darn Hot ex Cranberry

This March-foaled yearling filly by the outstanding young sire Too Darn Hot is a tremendously exciting prospect.

Bred in partnership by New England Stud and Mount Coote Stud – both exceptional nurseries – she is the third foal out of the Toronado mare Cranberry. The dam was trained by Richard Hughes to win a 7f Lingfield novice by three and a half lengths in the Royal colours on her second start at two and went on to finish fourth in Listed and Gr.3 company when trained in Italy as a three-year-old.

Retired to broodmare duties in 2021, Cranberry visited Expert Eye and Showcasing on her first two covers. Her first foal, Sopelana, has demonstrated a modicum of promise in a light career to date, while her second foal remains unraced at the time of writing. There is no doubting that this yearling filly in profile is the best produce of the mare so far, being a beautiful physical specimen and the product of a genuinely top-class stallion.

Cranberry is one of five winners out of the Gr.3 Oh So Sharp Stakes and Listed Michael Seely Memorial Fillies’ Stakes winner Raymi Coya. That makes her a half-sister to the Listed-placed winner Make Fast, who went on to produce the Gr.2 July Stakes winner Tactical, while she is also a half-sister to the dams of the Gr.3 Premio Parioli (Italian 2,000 Guineas) winner Fayathaan and the Listed winner Teresa Mendoza.

Look further down the page and this is a highly successful North American family, with the fourth dam being the Gr.1 Spinster Stakes winner and successful broodmare Try Something New.

The high calibre of the distaff side of this pedigree is complemented by the quality of the emerging stallion star Too Darn Hot. Based at Dalham Hall Stud under the Darley banner, he produced the Gr.1 Irish 1,000 Guineas winner Fallen Angel from his first crop and the Gr.1 winners Hotazell and Tornado Alert from his second. He has also made a splash in Australia, where his first Southern Hemisphere crop yielded the four-time Gr.1 winner Broadsiding.

An unbeaten Gr.1 Dewhurst Stakes-winning champion two-year-old who went on to win the Gr.1 Sussex Stakes and Gr.1 Prix Jean Prat at three, Too Darn Hot is the best juvenile to represent the extraordinary sire of sires Dubawi, and his yearlings have sold for up to 1,500,000gns in the sales ring. His covering fee rose to £90,000 in 2025, and it would be difficult to name many more exciting young sires currently in service in Europe.

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