Horse, Equus caballus

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Horse, Equus caballus

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Collection

Te Papa Collections Online

Description

Phar Lap's Skeleton Phar Lap started life on a stud farm near Timaru in 1926. His breeder sent him to the Trentham yearling sales in early 1928. Harry Telford, a New Zealand horse trainer in Sydney, spotted Phar Lap in the sale catalogue, and liked the look of his pedigree. He didn't have any money to buy the horse, so he got David J Davis, an American living in Sydney, to put up the purchase price - 160 guineas. His name means 'lightning' in Thai, but Phar Lap was a large, ungainly looking c...

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Date created

4 October 1926

URL

https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/70426

Locations

Menlo Park, California

Related subjects

Phar Lap (Race horse) / Timaru

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