$230,000 filly a dream come true for new owners

There are many things you could buy with $230,000 — maybe a house or a very flash car. But what about a horse?

For Toni and Steven Hart of Googong in New South Wales, that money was spent on a quarter horse filly that represents the beginning of a long-awaited dream.

Originally based in the Northern Territory, the couple lost 25 horses, and everything else they owned, in the 1998 Katherine flood.

Since relocating to NSW they have been rebuilding their performance horse operation with one goal in mind — to find the perfect pedigrees to breed the ultimate campdrafting horse.

They have recently imported a colt sired by America's Metallic Cat — considered the top sire of today's cutting horses — and now they have filled the missing link with their expensive filly, named Yaven Smooth Spin.

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Article written by: Lara Webster and Haley Craig