At a Glance
- Colt, Ontario-bred, foaled April 18, 2024
- By Charlatan out of Firewater Rocket
- Trainer: Kevin Attard
- Acquired at the 2025 CTHS Premier Yearling Sale
Behind the name
There are great nights in sports… and then there are nights that become myth. On February 7th, 1976, Ontario-born Toronto Maple Leafs captain Darryl Sittler delivered the kind of performance that makes the boxscore look like a typo: 10 points in one game – six goals and four assists – setting the NHL record for most points in a single game. Fifty years later, nobody has matched it.
In that campaign, his first year wearing the “C,” Sittler became the first Maple Leaf player ever to hit 100 points in a season. A few months later, he scored five goals in a playoff game, tying a postseason record set by Rocket Richard.
That September on the international stage, Sittler cemented his legacy by scoring the overtime goal against Czechoslovakia that won his nation the 1976 Canada Cup, the world’s first best-on-best multi-nation event that included professional players.
The Leafs selected Sittler with their first pick in the first round (8th overall) in the 1970 draft. After registering 77 points in his third season, his scoring never fell below 80 points a season for the rest of the time he played with the Leafs, maxing out at 117 points in the 77/78 season. He also played in two World Championships, banking 7 goals, 4 assists and a bronze medal with Team Canada.
Sittler became captain of the Leafs in 1975 and served in that role for parts of seven off the 13 seasons he played in Toronto before joining the Flyers and Red Wings for his final two seasons in the NHL.
A 4x All-Star, Sittler is considered one of the best players to ever suit up for the Leafs.
Voted by fans as the team’s greatest all-time centreman, Darryl Sittler was elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1989 and the Ontario Sports Hall of Fame in 2003 – the same year his number 27 was retired. In 2014, the Leafs erected a bronze statue of him on Legends Row outside of the ACC. Sittler was elected to the Canadian Walk of Fame in 2016 and named one of the ‘100 Greatest NHL Players’ in history the next year.
On January 27th, 2026, the most recent NHL player to score six goals in one game prior stepped onto the Leafs ice one more time as the team honoured the 50-year anniversary of Sittler setting a record that may never be broken.
About the Sire
Charlatan was a multiple Grade 1 winner who won 4 of 5 starts and earned $4,047,200. He was found and bought for $700,000 in 2018 by Canuck Racing Club’s own Donato Lanni for the partnership of SF Racing, Starlight, Madaket, and Stonestreet.
Trained by Bob Baffert, the progeny of millionaire champion sprinter Speightstown (inbred 3×4 to Secretariat) only started racing as a 3-year-old (3YO). After winning his first two starts, Charlatan stepped up to Grade 1 stakes contests and won the Arkansas Derby and Runhappy Malibu Stakes. He followed that with only one race as 4YO when he earned second place and $3.5 million in the Saudi Cup, the richest horse race in the world.
On that high note, Charlatan retired to stud. In 2024, the freshman sire had the highest-priced yearling of his class – a colt that sold for $1.5 million at the Fasig-Tipton sale – and his first foals were 2-year-olds in 2025.
Entering 2026 with a stud fee of $25,000, Charlatan has sired 25 fillies and 20 colts sold at auctions for an average price of $218,880 and $182,830, respectively. As of Valentine’s Day 2026, his 3YO daughter Little Miss Curlin had four wins in 5 starts – including three Black type stakes wins – along with more than $238K in purse earnings.
About the Dam
Sittler’s dam, Firewater Rocket, was sired by a son of Kentucky-bred Macho Uno who won $1.85 million going 6-1-3 in 14 starts. A winner at age 3 and 4 with $115,256 in earnings, Firewater Rocket was also black-type placed, finishing 3rd in the Rainbow Miss Stakes at Oaklawn. She is the dam of three other foals of racing age, of which one is a winner at 2 and 3 in 2025.
Under the hood, Firewater Rocket’s family gets deeper – and better. The second dam Rocket Twentyone was a Grade 3 winner, and she produced Frank’s Rockette, a multiple graded stakes-winning mare who earned more than $1.5M.
