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The Italian bred three-year-old trotting filly And If It Were True (Charly Du Noyer), who was undefeated in four harness racing starts last season, has been purchased by Ballarat breeder-owner Pat Driscoll, the principal of leading stud Haras Des Trotteurs.
Offered by legendary French horseman Philippe Allaire, she was bought for 140,000 euros at an internet sale organized by Arqana Trot in France, mainly as a broodmare proposition but will be raced in Australia before going to the stud.
And If It Were True is the winner of three races in Turin and one at Milan, and will be prepared in Victoria by Driscoll’s private trainer Anton Golino.
“She has an exceptional Italian pedigree, she is an easy gaited filly with a good sized body for when she is to become a broodmare, which is always my primary goal when purchasing these types of fillies,” Driscoll said.
“I love the families that breed on, and this family is on fire at the moment. It’s an international pedigree that trotting breeders around the world will recognize when her offspring eventually go through the ring.”
The underbidder for the filly was Dean Miller, the American owner of trotting stallions Volstead, Pastor Stephen and King Of The North.
And If It Were True, who raced as Etsic’Etaitvrai in Europe, is a daughter of the three-time Group 1 winner Charly Du Noyer, a son of the incomparable Ready Cash.
On her dam’s side, the filly has something in her favour. She is out of the dual Group 1 juvenile winner Gilly LB, by Supergill, a leading sire in America, Norway and Italy, from Rasia LB, by the Hambletonian winner and Hall of Fame immortal Nevele Pride.
Gilly LB is the dam of seven individual winners including Callmethebreeze, a Group winner in three countries, the French Group 3 victor Beautiful Colibri and to Onestar LB, dam of last year’s brilliant Scotch Notch Classic winner Courmayeur.
“This purchase continues Yabby Dam Farms’s quest to slowly build up an internationally recognised, world class trotting broodmare band and And If It Were True definitely adds to this growing band of fillies and mares,” Driscoll said.
