THE pieces sliced out of Phar Lap's heart in an autopsy in 1932 have finally been found in the National Museum of Australia's collection in Canberra.
The 14-pound heart of a race horse, inside a preservative-filled aquarium, was placed aboard a ship at the San Francisco Embarcadero. The ship sailed for Australia on April 13, 1932. Six months later, ...
It's a mystery that dates back to the Great Depression. Australian "WONDER HORSE" PHAR LAP, one of the world's most successful racehorses, suddenly hemorrhaged to death during a trip to California in ...
Steven Kramer’s (Book, Music & Lyrics) new work, PHAR LAP THE ELECTRO-SWING MUSICAL is a piece of pure genius. Directed by Sheridan Harbridge, this work is a pairing of a great Australian story with a ...
CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australia's greatest sporting mystery has been partly solved with scientists on Monday saying champion racehorse Phar Lap was poisoned before his U.S. race debut 74 years ago.
Had it been proven that the greatest horse in Australian turf history had died of poison soon after his arrival in the U. S., dark suspicions might have hung for years between U. S. and Australian ...
A party of reporters visited the Ed Perry Ranch at Menlo Park, Calif, one morning last week to have a look at Phar Lap, the huge red gelding from Australia that won the Agua Caliente Handicap (TIME, ...
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 ...
He survived an assassination attempt and died in mysterious circumstances, possibly by poisoning at the hands of gangsters, but the legend of racehorse Phar Lap lives on in what would be his 90th year ...
The 14-pound heart of a race horse, inside a preservative-filled aquarium, was placed aboard a ship at the San Francisco Embarcadero. The ship sailed for Australia on April 13, 1932. Six months later, ...