The legendary racehorse Phar Lap has been celebrated this weekend for his 100th birthday, with a special party held in his ...
News reports from Australia alleging that the country's legendary wonder horse, Phar Lap, died not of colic but of deliberate arsenic poisoning, has thrust affluent Atherton, a secluded enclave on the ...
Prominent owner Ozzie Kheir wants “everyone to enjoy” an extraordinary piece of Australian sporting history, framed silks worn by jockey Jim Pike on legendary Phar Lap.
A catalogue documenting the early sale of Phar Lap - complete with delivery instructions jotted down in pencil - has been bought at auction by the National Museum of Australia (NMA) for more than ...
Phar Lap, one of the world's greatest race horses, is so revered his remains are kept in both his birthplace New Zealand and Australia where he became a champion. But under an historic deal that is ...
When the legendary Phar Lap won the Melbourne Cup in 1930, the big chestnut horse didn’t just live up to his Thai name, which means “lightning”. He also brought together strands of colonial history ...
Punters lost an estimated 1 million pounds when the mighty Phar Lap went down in the 1929 Melbourne Cup and jockey Bobby Lewis, regarded as a pocket Hercules, was the fall guy. Boilover: Nightmarch, ...
THE 76-year mystery of what killed Phar Lap may finally be put to bed, with local researchers revealing forensic analysis has confirmed the champion racehorse ingested a lethal dose of arsenic hours ...
Phar Lap, the legendary Australian racing horse, is as well-known today for his mysterious death as for his fabulous accomplishments in life. Beginning at the end, the film flashes back to the day ...