Ortensia may bow out of racing after racing in Scone Trainer Paul Messara with racehorse Ortensia at Arrowfield Training Centre near Scone in the NSW Hunter Valley. Picture: Liam Driver THE Scone stand-alone meeting on Saturday could be the career swansong for sprint queen Ortensia. Trainer Paul Messara conceded he is planning only "one race at a time" for Ortensia in what he confirmed is the mare's final season on the racetrack. Ortensia, a triple Group 1 winner, has been allocated 62kg for a race named in her honour, the Listed $140,000 Prydes Easifeed Ortensia Stakes (1100m) at Scone. "She is probably not in as good a form as she was this time last year when she was winning Group 1 races in Dubai and England," Messara said. But she is healthy, fit and well, and her trackwork has been pleasing. If she runs well at Scone, we will take her to Queensland for the carnival. But it all depends on how she goes on Saturday. Messara has booked jockey Nash Rawiller to ride the mare, who has been freshened since finishing near last in the Oakleigh Plate and Newmarket Handicap this year. "The weight makes it a big ask for her but Scone should suit her and she is going to run," the trainer said. Ortensia, a seven-year-old mare and winner of 13 of her 37 starts for more than $1.4 million in prizemoney, is destined for the breeding barn this spring breeding season. But Messara has another top-class seven-year-old trying to resurrect his race career in the Ortensia Stakes - the gelding Mic Mac. A veteran of just 20 starts for seven wins and more than $800,000 in stakes money, Mic Mac has raced only twice in nearly three years as severe injury (fractured cannon bone) curtailed his appearances. "Mic Mac has 61kg on Saturday because he still has a high rating," Messara said. I have no option but to run him but it is a difficult system when you have had a horse that has had so little racing. In his situation, he should almost be allowed to start as an open horse again.