Unless the VRC ever holds races over 1207 metres, Aurie’s Star’s “Straight Six” record will remain for eternity. He recorded this time in a bread-and- butter race, the Whittier Handicap, against an undistinguished field. Sceptics declared the timekeeper was mistaken. They said the feat was impossible. Of course it wasn’t. Harold Badger, said no Newmarket winner would have got near Aurie’s Star that day. Most remarkable was the weight he carried– 10 stone 2 pounds. In metrics that is 64.4 kilograms. Norm Creighton rode him that day. He said the horse was ‘never off the bit’ and that wind was not a factor. Harold Badger, regular rider of Ajax, said no Newmarket winner would have got near Aurie’s Star that day. Most remarkable was the weight he carried– 10 stone 2 pounds. In metrics that is 64.4 kilograms. Aurie’s Star was great by any standards. He won the 1937 VRC Newmarket and was second under a big Aurie’s Star (Stardrift (GB)– Aurie Anton), owned and bred in 1932 by E.D. Murphy, South Australia; leased and later sold to George Badman; trained by Jack Doyle (Gawler, SA) and later Robert Sinclair in Victoria and G.R. Jesser in SA. weight in 1939. He won the Oakleigh Plate twice at Caulfield, and Adelaide’s Goodwood Handicap. His long career made him a racetrack idol. His final win was as a 12-year-old, after a two-year break, at Morphettville. The crowd cheered throughout the entire race. His owner George Badman retired Aurie’s Star to his farm.
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