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correctweight
Champion Joined: 20 May 2010 Location: Melbourne Status: Offline Points: 2560 |
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Posted: 14 Mar 2019 at 8:02pm |
That is so shattering and an unlucky way to die. Rip champ
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Bonjour
Champion Joined: 25 Feb 2010 Status: Offline Points: 8402 |
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Mrs Bonjour and I were lucky enough to have been at Newmarket for the July Cup when SSB won and Alverta ran 3rd, great day that day, Alverta payed at 15-1 the place, we had a bonza collect, however watching Paul Messara and family in the mounting yard was special, Paul did a great job training that lovely mare for that race, the biggest sprint in Europe, up a rise that would kill lesser horses...she conquered that rise, but couldn't hold off the lightening bolt.......she was obviously needed elsewhere, RIP lovely lady.
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Gay3
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G1 winner killed by lightningPosted by: Ric Chapman+ at 8:44am on 12/3/2019 As Saturday came to a close, scone-based trainer Paul Messara was conflicted. During the day two immensely emotional moments occurred in his life. The first was finding his beloved mare, Alverta dead in a paddock. The second was watching the horse his father part-owns called The Autumn Sun doing a performance only Winx was capable of. “It was a bitter-sweet day for me, that’s for sure,” said Messara. “We lost Alverta to a lightning strike. It hit her and, well…She was a very special mare to me. “She was my first metro winner, also my first stakes winner and was my first ever Gr 1 winner.” Alverta (Flying Spur-Grilse) won the Hawkesbury Guineas for Messara when he was just starting out as a trainer, then 2 months later in the winter of 2008, went to Queensland and scored in the Gr 1 Winter Stakes (Tatts Tiara) over 1400m beating Absolute Glam and Fritz’s Princess. She later won the coveted Gr 1 Coolmore Stakes at Rosehill and was 3rd behind the great Starspangledbanner in the Gr 1 July Cup up that gruelling Newmarket hill in England. She won 8 races all up and over $1.1million in stakes. At stud she produced 3 named foals, all of whom won and she has a 2YO by Dundeel on the ground and a weanling by the same sire too. “The only good thing about the day was watching The Autumn Sun do the impossible and win that Gr 1,” he added. |
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Wisdom has been chasing me but I've always outrun it!
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Romano
Champion Joined: 10 Apr 2008 Status: Offline Points: 4492 |
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talking about the Galaxy!
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Hot2Trot
Champion Joined: 31 Aug 2009 Status: Offline Points: 6044 |
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All I can add is that she's not an acceptor, so they would have to make a late entry.
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Champion Joined: 21 Feb 2007 Location: Australia Status: Offline Points: 11051 |
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bump. anyone know if she's running?
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princerubiton
Champion Joined: 21 Feb 2007 Location: Australia Status: Offline Points: 11051 |
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I read that they are going to run her in the Doncaster but I looked at a couple of markets and she's not even in there. Anyway know of a market with her in?
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