What were Phar Laps Racing Achievements In Australia??

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What were Phar Laps Racing Achievements In Australia??

Answer 1

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Answer 2

Decades after his death, Phar Lap remains Australia's most famous racehorse: an ungainly chestnut gelding whose great stamina helped him win 37 of his 51 races between 1929 and 1932. Phar Lap was born in New Zealand and purchased for the bargain price of 160 pounds by trainer Harry Telford and American owner Dale Davis in 1927. The horse repaid them by winning over 66,000 pounds in purse money during his career. Phar Lap was the favorite in the prestigious Melbourne Cup race three times, winning in 1930 and becoming a national hero in the process. After the 1931 Cup he was shipped to America to face new competition for bigger stakes. He won his first race, at Agua Calienti in Mexico, but never raced again: in April of 1932 he died suddenly at a ranch in California. An autopsy indicated gastric trouble, but the precise cause was unclear, and many Australians believed the rumor that Phar Lap had been poisoned by enemies in the American racing industry. The champion's hide was stuffed and returned to the National Museum in Melbourne, where he remained a popular exhibit for decades.

Answer 3

If you need more info that you can print out and keep go to:-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phar_Lap

Lots of pictures, facts etc., about this amazing horse.

There has never been another like him.

Good question...Jacqui x

Answer 4

A winner of 37 of his 51 starts, he started favorite in three successive Melbourne Cups, the only horse in the long history of Australia’s most famous race accorded that distinction.

In a unique feat in 1930, he won a race on each of the four days of the 1930 Flemington spring carnival, including the Melbourne Cup with 15 lb. (6.8 kg.) more than weight-for-age.

Today he resides in the Melbourne Museum, as the most popular exhibit; a life-like monument to his greatness; his mammoth 14 pound heart is in the National Museum in Canberra, while his skeleton is displayed in the Dominion Museum in Wellington. Phar Lap became the most public horse of all time, not entirely because he was so sublime. Drama, controversy, wickedness and savage cruelty rode with the big, gentle chestnut from barrier to box.

Criminals in Melbourne tried to shoot him on the Saturday morning before his 1930 Melbourne Cup win and finally, tragically, he suffered an agonising death in mysterious circumstances in California, USA, on April 5, 1932, when he was only a five-year-old after having defied the odds to win an international race at Agua Caliente, in Mexico only days before.

He beat the best company in two continents with an ease and authority never seen before or since. His achievements live in the hearts, if no longer the memories, of all who love thoroughbred racing.  

Answer 5

Phar Lap was a Chestnut gelding who started 51 times for 37 wins, 3 seconds, 2 thirds and was unplaced only 9 times to earn AUS$123,476. He was nicknamed the Red Terror for his amasing galloping feats and the way he smashed his rivals. Eight of his 9 unplacings were when he was 2 years old.

He won as a three year old - Rosehill Guineas, AJC Derby, Craven Plate (wfa), VRC Derby, VRC St Ledger, Governer's Plate (wfa), Kind's Plate (wfa), Chipping Norton, AJC St Ledger, Cumberland Stakes (wfa), AJC Plate (wfa), Elder Stakes, King's Cup.

As a four year old - Chelmsford Stakes, Hill Stakes, Spring Stakes (wfa), Craven Plate (wfa), Randwick Plate (wfa), Cox Plate (wfa), Melbourne Stakes (wfa), Melbourne Cup, Linlithgow Stakes (wfa), Fisher Plate (wfa), St George Stakes, Futurity Stakes, Essendon Stakes (wfa), The King's Plate.

As a five year old - Underwood Stakes, Memsie Stakes, Hill Stakes, Spring Stakes, Craven Plate, Randwick Plate, Cox Plate, Melbourne Stakes, all of these races were Weight For Age (wfa), as a horse who had won so many races had to stay out of handicaps anyway.

In 2001 Phar Lap was one of the first inductees to the Australian Racing Hall of Fame and in 2007 was the first to be elevated to Legend status.