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Sydney trainer Harry Telford persuaded American businessman David J. Davis to buy the colt at auction, based on his pedigree. Telford's brother Hugh, who lived in New Zealand, was asked to bid up to 190 guineas at the 1928 Trentham Yearling Sales. When the horse was obtained for a mere 160 guineas, he thought it was a great bargain until the ...
It was in this way that he met trainer Harry Telford and his horse Phar Lap, widely regarded as the greatest Australian racehorse of all time. In 1929, Telford employed Woodcock as Phar Lap's strapper. From then on, Tommy and Phar Lap were virtually inseparable.
Telford initially disagrees citing Australia's Quarantine Laws, but reluctantly agrees knowing that the Agua Caliente Handicap was the richest race in the world. Telford, saying that Phar Lap has brought him "nothing but trouble" refuses to go himself, preferring to concentrate on his new stud and stables at Braeside, south of Melbourne. He ...
Harry Telford: 2:01.5 1-14F 1930 Phar Lap [43] 4 ch g: Night Raid – Entreaty: James Pike: Harry Telford: 1:59.25 1-7F 1929 Nightmarch: 4 br c: Night Raid – Marsa Roy Reed: A McAulay 2:01.5 5-4F 1928 Highland: 7 b/br g: Highfield – Regulator W Duncan Jack Holt: 2:06.75 9-2 1927 Amounis: 5 br g: Magpie – Loved One J Toohey Frank McGrath ...
Martin Kevin Vaughan (5 June 1931 – October 2022) was an Australian stage, television and film actor and musician. [1] He is best known for appearing in the film Phar Lap as trainer Harry Telford and the lead role in the award-winning 26-part 1976 television miniseries Power Without Glory.
David Davis & Harry R. Telford 1 1 ⁄ 4 M: 2:02.80 $50,050 1931 Mike Hall: 7 Steve O'Donnell Walter W. Taylor Robert M. Eastman 1 1 ⁄ 4 M: 2:03.00 1930 Victorian: 5 George Ellis J. Thomas Taylor: Warm Stable (Suzanne Mason & W. A. Hanger) 1 1 ⁄ 4 M: 2:03.20 $98,400 1929 Golden Prince 5 Jack Parmalee Harry M. Unna Harry M. Unna 1 3 ⁄ 16 M ...
Harry Telford: 1929: Rosehill Guineas, AJC Derby, Victoria Derby, 1930: VRC St Leger, Chipping Norton Stakes, AJC Plate now the Queen Elizabeth Stakes (ATC ...
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