Tattersalls Online has announced a dedicated Southern Hemisphere session within its Online February Sale, which will be held Feb. 17-18, in collaboration with Australia's leading auction house Inglis Digital.
The sale marks the third collaboration between Tattersalls Online and Inglis Digital and aims to continue to strengthen the connection between the Northern and Southern Hemisphere markets.
The upcoming Southern Hemisphere session will feature a select draft from The Castlebridge Consignment, headlined by a rare opportunity to acquire southern hemisphere-bred progeny by Too Darn Hot.
The sire of four individual group 1 winners, the success of Too Darn Hot's progeny has been particularly pronounced in the southern hemisphere, where his first crop, now 4-year-olds, included 10 individual stakes winners spearheaded by elite-level winner Broadsiding. His current 2-year-old crop in the Southern Hemisphere has produced two stakes-winning juveniles from just seven runners to date.
Among the highlights of the session is a three-in-one package featuring the young mare Moraless, offered together with her Southern Hemisphere-bred weanling colt by Too Darn Hot and in foal on a Southern Hemisphere cover to last year's champion first-season sire Starman. Moraless is a half sister to Moonee Valley Gold Cup (G2) winner Hunting Horn and group 2 winner and group 1-placed juvenile David Livingston. She is out of Mora Bai, a half sister to champion sire High Chaparral.
Also to be offered in the session is a September-born weanling filly by Too Darn Hot out of the proven black-type producer Belle Isle, dam of group 3-winning 2-year-old Abel Handy.
"This Southern Hemisphere session offers a genuinely unique opportunity," Tattersalls Online sales manager Katherine Sheridan said. "Too Darn Hot's 2024 Southern Hemisphere foals are exceptionally limited in number, and when combined with pedigrees of this quality, the appeal is clear. We are delighted to once again collaborate with Inglis Digital and to present a session that we expect will attract strong international interest."
Inglis Bloodstock CEO Sebastian Hutch added, "The collaborations with Tattersalls Online are a product of conversations that we have been having with the team at Tattersalls for a number of years, and in the instances that we have executed them, they have generated good engagement and a number of excellent results.
"Katherine raised the possibility of this opportunity last month, and we were very keen for Inglis Digital to be involved as we feel we can add significant value to the process. Access to Too Darn Hot was particularly limited in his fifth season because he was domiciled in England, and as such, there is a real scarcity value to these foals, particularly when analysis of who holds the balance of the crop shows that it is very unlikely that many of his offspring will be available at public auction in Australia either as weanlings in 2026 or as yearlings in 2027."
The draft will be available for inspection prior to the sale, and appointments can be made by contacting Bill Dwan or Paddy Diamond of The Castlebridge Consignment, whose details are available on the Tattersalls Online website.
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