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Topic: Alverta
Posted By: princerubiton
Subject: Alverta
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2010 at 2:25am
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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Posted By: princerubiton
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2010 at 9:13pm

bump.

anyone know if she's running?

Posted By: Hot2Trot
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2010 at 9:28pm
All I can add is that she's not an acceptor, so they would have to make a late entry.

Posted By: Romano
Date Posted: 22 Mar 2010 at 9:32pm
talking about the Galaxy!

Posted By: Gay3
Date Posted: 14 Mar 2019 at 9:34am

G1 winner killed by lightning

Posted by: https://www.unnamedwebsite.com.au/author/ric-chapman" rel="nofollow - Ric Chapman https://www.unnamedwebsite.com.au/news/australian-racing/g1-winner-killed-by-lightning/507615?fbclid=IwAR2sP2FFMobBZ5SxXoQ-ZFsMriGIqpUNdwBwysytwYiNh0ZBsZERRjpmrUY" rel="nofollow - + 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 https://www.unnamedwebsite.com.au/horse/winx" rel="nofollow - 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 https://www.unnamedwebsite.com.au/race/hawkesbury-guineas" rel="nofollow - 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 https://www.unnamedwebsite.com.au/tatts-tiara" rel="nofollow - Gr 1 Winter Stakes (Tatts Tiara) over 1400m beating Absolute Glam and Fritz’s Princess.

She later won the coveted https://www.unnamedwebsite.com.au/coolmore-classic" rel="nofollow - 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!

Posted By: Bonjour
Date Posted: 14 Mar 2019 at 10:04am
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.

Posted By: correctweight
Date Posted: 14 Mar 2019 at 8:02pm
That is so shattering and an unlucky way to die. Rip champ


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