Australia's Greatest Racehorse
BackA racing phenomenon, Phar Lap was the greatest racehorse ever to come out of Australia. In 1932 he arrived in America where on 20th March, 1932 he easily won the Agua Caliente Handicap in Tijuana, Mexico - he is pictured winning this race in the video - and was scheduled for other important races in the United States. Unfortunately he died from acute enteritis just over two weeks later at Menlo Park, California, on April 5 at the age of six years. It is believed that the cause of his untimely death was arsenic poisoning, but whether this was accidental or whether he was the target of gangsters is open to speculation. A very gentle horse who was called by the name Bobby, he is pictured frolicking with his strapper, Tommy Woodcock.
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Uploaded: October 25th, 2006 @ 1:31 pm
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