Phar lap biography racehorse
Phar lap biography racehorse
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HORSE PROFILE
PHAR LAP - Story
Phar Lap comes from the Thai word pharlap "emitting light from the sky".
According to the sales catalogue Phar Lap was foaled on 26 October 1926. The New Zealand Stud Book claims that he was actually foaled on 4 October 1926. On his registration certificate Phar Lap's distinguishing marks read: "chestnut gelding; near hind leg and fetlock white off hind coronet white, white star on forehead, four black spots on off quarter, white spot over black spot near quarter".
Phar Lap is sold at the Trentham Thoroughbred Yearling Sales in New Zealand on 24 January 1928 for the modest sum of 160 guineas or US$336.00 at only one year, three months and three weeks after birth. Despite the fact that he is an ugly, le