“RED TERROR” HORSE
Americans Name Phar Lap A TEST RACE SHORTLY (Rec. January 20, 8.30 p.m.) , - New York, January 19. \ A message from San Bruno, California, states that Phar Lap’s handlers say the horse probably will enter a test race within the next three weeks at the Tanforam track carrying a Ost. 31b. impost over a mile and a quarter, which is the Agua Caliente Handicap distance. It Is expected that Phar Lap’s contestants In the trial will be Mr. John Marchbank’s horse Mopeca, and Plucky iw. . ... Golden Gate newspapers describe Phar Lap as the “red terror of the Antipodes.” Admiring crowds are going daily to see him. The horse retained his placid temperament throughout the long oceau voyage, and the visitors are strangely disappointed with his amazing docility. Mr. John Marchbanks’ stables are finely situated on rising ground, and the Australian wonder horse is making himself right at home. Phar Lap’s trainer, Woodcock, remains in constant attendance. He told an Interviewer.: “We in Australia do not know just how good Phar Lap is. He has done everything we have asked of him against the best that competition could offer.
“I can say without hesitation that Phar Lap has never been extended. I do not think that the hard dirt tracks here will affect him.”
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Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 99, 21 January 1932, Page 9
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