Phar Lap Go Smell the Arsenic!
June 19th, 2008 by aussiecynicMany of the Guys here at Flowers are Horse Racing fans and in my household it is no different… hubby has been sitting up watching Royal Ascot till the early hours..
How about Haradasun and Takeover Target…
Go you good things!
Aussie Gloating done now
But all Australians whether you are into Horse Racing or Not, now the Name of our Greatest Hero Phar Lap..
His mysterious Death in 1932 in The USA has been the fodder of many a conspiracy theory ever since and it has today been found to be the truth we partly anyway…
We Australian have for the past 74 years beleived Phar lap was Poisoned, murdered etc but this was never proven, the newpapers were full of headlines of Phar Lap Poisoned but the official line was he died from Colic or an infection in his hoof….
If you go to Little Aussie Cynic you will see the whole story and News Report today which confirmed he was poisoned but not in the way we all think….
I included footage of his one and only international race and another on the history of our greatest ever hero our Horse Phar lap..
Hi Aussie,
Dare I mention ENGLISH Ruby Union ?
no you dare not..
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Ack, American Horse Racing is the best. Have you ever kept an eye on the Triple Crown? Where be my Mint Julep?
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Sorry Aussie
I forgot to mention a certain Mr Tasman missed Australia and landed in a place named after him now Guess Where ??
do you mean Able Tasman landing where I am Tasmania…?
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Yes
I think he was headiing for Australia but got lost
hmm great navigation……
no he was travelling through to Chili in the 1600’s… he stopped here and then went to New Zealand etc
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Wow! Facinating story and very sad.
it is.. but what this horse represented was the hopes of a nation….
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like the one in the US
airbiscuit
it is believed in racing circles that Phar lap would have beaten Sea Biscuit… hands down
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Talking about Sea Biscuit, yes it is indeed a great horse and a great movie too..
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I think something similar happened in the UK with a horse called Shergar?
Apparently the IRA robbed it.
I saw a thing on tv that they may have found him….. didnt hear more about it… if I do I send you the link..
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Why would the IRA take a horse?
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because it was a british horse and the IRA bomb brits through the 1980-90’s… very nasty subject which we arent going tthere ….OKIE DOKIE
he was kidnapped, held for ransom… he was a symbol more than anything.. they did find remains in a paddock recently and the paddock was owned by someone in the IRA so it may well be him…
Correct me if I am wrong but the story we got down here….
Irish Republican Army isnt it..?
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Ta for the footage (or is it hoofage) over at AC but this stinks of conspiracy….
No question - gee-gee was removed from power.
he was… there is talk about an accidental overdose because Arsenic was used in the tonics for the horses.. but the people involved in his care new their job so it would only have been by intervention of some other party..
thanks guys it is one of those stories which touches 99% of Aussies….
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A new one on us - in our pomme ignorance hadn’t heard the tale so thanks again!
what Pomme Ignorance… oh my goodness……. do have it too… is that genetic…. brit stock and all that…
lol….
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