Aurlada is steeples fancy

Press, 4 June 1982, Page 20

Aurlada is steeples fancy

Aurlada is “The Press" selection for the Great Northern Steeplechase at Ellerslie on Monday.

“She’s a great little sticker, and a sure jumper and she had luck all against her when she ran third in the Northern last year,” Allan Brown, the Auckland racing correspondent of “The Press,” said yesterday.

Aurlada finished third in last year’s Great Northern after her rider had been without irons for about 1400 m.

Five days later she was a popular winner of the McGregor Grant Steeplechase. Our Auckland correspondent regards Mr Hickey and Chief Ore as the best of Aurlada’s rivals in the second leg of the special Great Northerns double.

He selects Paul's Boy to win the Great Northern Hurdles, and Stipulation and Van der Hum to run into the minor places.

The T.A.B. code for. the special double is SF. The field for the Great Northern Steeplechase is:

Race 6 2.10 GREAT NORTHERN STEEPLECHASE $31,000, 6400 m

1 8044 Mr Hickey 68.5 2 3319 Chief Ore 67.5 3 9426 Pattone 63.5 4 168 Regenerate 61.5 5 2434 Husky 60.5 6 5753 Aurlada 60.0 7 3601 Dark Purple 60.0 8 0541 Denzami 59.0 9 1228 Mountain Gold 59.0 10 0895 Le Roy 57.5 11 6702 Ca Bre 57.0 12 8283 Gold Vic 57.0 13 635 Hunterville 57.0 14 4777 Syndream 57.0