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 ...

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, ...

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, ...

Arsenic killed Australasia's greatest racehorse Phar Lap near San Francisco 74 years ago, a new scientific study alleges. The story in the Rupert Murdoch-owned (Melbourne) Sun-Herald suggests that the ...

The genetic makeup of legendary race horse Phar Lap is being examined by scientists in Sydney, who hope to identify what makes a champion. The depression-era thoroughbred captured Australia's ...

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 ...

RACING stories - much like fishing stories – are prone to exaggeration. The grandiose language of the turf makes them that way. Jockeys are accused of “slaughtering’’ a horse yet no jockey ever pulled ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ian writes on fossil energies, climate, and transition to renewables. Phar Lap was a champion racehorse bred in New Zealand and ...

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