Interview, a most impressive winner at the all-trotting program at Melton last Friday night, has a fully international breeding background and one that has been most successful.
He was bred in France, registered in Germany, sired by an Italian stallion and is out of a USA mare.
Pat Driscoll, principal of Yabby Dam Farms, purchased Interview out of Louis Boudron’s Osarus Trot – Haras des Rouges Terres on-farm sale as a two-year-old.
“He had been broken in and gaited up and Louis said that he quite liked the colt,” Driscoll said.
Bourdon is a grandson of the legendary J P Dubois and the annual on-farm sale features a mixture of foals, yearlings, untried and tried young horses as well as broodmares from the various Dubois family farms in Normandy.
“We were attracted to Interview as he was a half-brother to Dreamcatcher, a Love You horse we had purchased from Louis a few years before, that showed us enormous ability, but was injured as a three-year-old,” Driscoll said.
“Although he raced again a few years later, he was never the same horse prior to being injured.”
Dreamcatcher is a member of the star-studded sire roster at Haras Des Trotteurs, standing at Forrest Lodge in NSW.
Interview and Dreamcatcher are both out of the well performed USA mare Saorse (Tr 3, 1:54.6), an Andover Hall mare from a prized maternal family who had a bankroll of $369,854 and finished third in the 2008 World Trotting Derby.
Interview’s sire Traders is a very fast Italian-bred son of the immortal Ready Cash. Traders defeated the likes of Bold Eagle and was just as good under saddle as in the sulky, winning two Group 1s and multiple Group 2s while amassing 1,388,400 euros during his racing career.
He currently stands alongside Ready Cash and other Ready Cash sons in Bird Parker, Brillantissime, Charly du Noyer, Gotland and Django Riff at Philippe and Gitte Allaire’s Haras de Bouttemont in Normandy.
“Interview is still a three-year-old by birth, turning four in May this year, so the farm is very excited by his potential,” Driscoll said.
