By highly regarded young sire Too Darn Hot (GB), Europe’s champion 2-year-old of 2018 who took two more Group 1 events at three, the filly is out of the Invincible Spirit (Ire) mare Formidable Kitt (GB). She was acquired on advice of top international bloodstock agent Arthur Hoyeau following a strong breeze under tack in which she leveled off nicely.

Having been pointed for an auction earlier in the season before a slight setback, the filly had reportedly been a buzzed-about sort in the weeks leading up to the Summer Sale. Possessing a build well suited to American racing and plenty of scope despite a precocious-leaning pedigree, the Feb. 19 foal appeared a promising prospect to attempt to take advantage of the excellent track record European horses have when brought over to race on the turf Stateside.

Too Darn Hot, who stands at Darley’s Dalham Stud in England, leads all European second-crop sires in a number of categories including black-type winners and graded/group winners. He has been represented by no fewer than six group stakes winners already on three different continents, including Fallen Angel (GB), a Group 1 winner in Ireland at two and three; Australian MG1SW juvenile Broadsiding (Aus); and Japanese Group 2 winner Etes Vous Prets (Ire). In the U.S., Too Darn Hot is responsible for June’s Wild Applause S. scorer Oversubscribed (GB), who was most recently second in Saratoga’s G3 Lake George S. July 20.

The filly’s dam Formidable Kitt was a juvenile winner herself and is already responsible for stakes-placed Kitteridge (GB) (Camelot {GB}), who has done his best work at 1 1/4 miles. Second dam Ceiling Kitty (GB) bested 26 rivals in the prestigious G2 Queen Mary S. at Royal Ascot as a 2-year-old in 2012. She has produced two precocious black-type performers herself, one of which went on to produce a Group 2 winner in Dubai.

Brad Cox will need no introduction to most racing fans. A recipient of the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Trainer in both 2020 and 2021, his trainees have racked up some $180 million in career earnings and he boasts a gaudy lifetime win rate of 26%. The conditioner of champion fillies like Monomoy Girl, British Idiom and Covfefe, perhaps his most relevant standout was Aunt Pearl (Ire), who was imported to the U.S. after being acquired in England as a yearling. She capped a perfect juvenile campaign in 2020 with a sparkling score in the G1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies, and later sold for $3 million as a broodmare prospect.

Given some farm time out of the sale, the filly is scheduled to ship to Saratoga on July 28 and seems to be one who can go right on with her training.