At a point in which Lilian had had several problems with her breeding program (you can read that story here) and did not have a bitch to continue breeding to, miraculously one of the drivers at Technicolor, where she was working, saw an IG at a horse ranch, which was on her route. When the driver came back she asked if Lilian knew people with a horse ranch in that area that also had IGs. Lilian asked the driver to get the phone number of the people. Lilian called them and found out that their male was Alfie, Amami Alfredo Di La Scala, a Nero X Tina son from Tina's second litter. Lilian had tried for years to locate Alfie. The ranch people had bought a bitch to breed to him so they could have puppies to sell. Lilian went to look at their litter and tried to buy Alfie back, but they wouldn't sell him. She did buy one of the puppies. That became Ch. La Traviata Di La Scala (Nova). She is behind everything that came later.

Nova was bred three times, all of them to sires that became important in the breed in the U.S.: