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Phar Lap Jim Pike and Chide W.Cook Randwick Racecourse 1931 Phar Lap winning the Melbourne Cup Race from Second Wind and Shadow King on 4 November 1930. In the four years of his racing career, Phar Lap won 37 of 51 races he entered, including the Melbourne Cup, being ridden by Jim Pike, in 1930 with 9 st 12 lb (138 pounds (63 kg)). [20]
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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.
Phar Lap (also released as Phar Lap: Heart of a Nation) is a 1983 Australian biographical drama film about the racehorse Phar Lap. The film stars Tom Burlinson and was written by David Williamson . Plot
Billy Elliot (died 1941) was an Australian jockey.He rode the Thoroughbred racehorse Phar Lap on seven occasions for seven wins, including his last race in the 1932 Agua Caliente Handicap in Mexico.
Entreaty produced seven full siblings to Phar Lap: Fortune's Wheel; Nea Lap (won 5 races) Nightguard (won 9 minor races) All Clear; Friday Night; Te Uira; Raphis. None of her other progeny won a principal (stakes) race. Phar Lap was a half-brother to another four horses, only two of which were able win any races at all. [2]
Night Raid served one season at stud in Australia during 1923 and then resumed racing. He was retired to stud in New Zealand in 1924. His legacy as a sire is outstanding. Night Raid sired two great racehorses, namely Phar Lap and Nightmarch, victors in the successive Group One, Melbourne Cup in 1929 and 1930.
Phar Lap was shipped to America, and Woodcock was employed as his trainer while he was in America. Woodcock trained Phar Lap and he won the rich Agua Caliente Handicap. Shortly afterwards, on 5 April 1932, Phar Lap suddenly died in Menlo Park, California. Always devoted to the horse, Woodcock was with Phar Lap in his final moments.