An Upper Hunter horse trainer says a poor performance by race horse Ortensia at Royal Ascot is no indication of how Black Caviar will run on the weekend. There had been high hopes for Paul Messara ...
ORTENSIA has such an attractive weight that trainer Paul Messara cannot resist running her in Saturday's $1million Newmarket Handicap. The Testa Rossa mare has been allotted 56.5kg, a generous burden ...
PAUL Messara will instruct Craig Williams to keep Ortensia within reach of the leaders from the start of the King's Stand Stakes. Williams rode Ortensia in her usual last-to-first burst to win the ...
Rhodes, a retired sheep and wheat grazier near the southwestern NSW town of Corowa, is the breeder of Ortensia. To have bred a thoroughbred that has won a Group I race in two countries already, with ...
Australian turf sprinter burst from near the tail of the field to win the Group 1 US$1 million Al Quoz Sprint Ortensia struck another blow for the prowess of Australian turf sprinters as the mare ...
Australian sprint star Ortensia notched the third group I victory of her career as she ran down Spirit Quartz in the shadow of the wire to win the Coolmore Nunthorpe Stakes (Eng-I) at York Racecourse ...