Phar Lap
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Phar Lap was a New Zealand–born champion Australian Thoroughbred racehorse. Achieving great success during his distinguished career, his initial underdog status gave people hope during the early years
Phar Lap and jockey Jim Pike Flemington Racecourse 1930
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
Phar Lap photographed c.1932
Phar Lap (film)
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Phar Lap is a 1983 Australian biographical drama film about the racehorse Phar Lap. The film stars Tom Burlinson and was written by David Williamson.
Phar Lap
…Lap" to describe a very generous or courageous person became a popular idiom. Several books and films have featured Phar Lap, including the 1983 film Phar Lap, and the song "Phar Lap—Farewell To You", and the 2025 musical Phar Lap: The Electro-Swing Musical. His story was fictionalised in the 1934 film A…
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From the 1983 movie "Phar Lap" using a chestnut lookalike horse named "Towering Inferno".