PHAR LAP'S OWNER

Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 136, 6 December 1932, Page 6

PHAR LAP'S OWNER

RETURN FROM AMERICA

ANOTHER CHAMPION FOR

U.S.A. ?

(By Telegraph.) (Special to "The Evening Post.") ■-. AUCKLAND, sth December. : "I started a job which I feel that I-did not finish," remarked Mr. D. J. Davis, part-owner of Phar Lap, who is home-ward-bound on.the Monterey, when asked this morning if he would.take another, horse over to.meet the American champions. Since the.death of his great horse in April last Mr. Davis has been living in America, and he was keen during his short stay in. Auckland to-day to go out to Takanini and see for the first time his; threeryear-old Pillow Fight,- which has given evidence of developing into a brilliant horse..: : / / : ....

Mr. Davis is indefinite as to,his plans, but said that he would probably make fur-: 'ther visits to Amei-ica,;and provided he had a horse of sufficient qualifications he would take it there. Phar Lap's/one:victory/gave him greater, pleasure,/he saidv than any of his many-successes in Australia, for. the/mission to the United -States had been undertaken against considerable practical- advice; Naturally- he wished Phar Lap. had had further opportunities - of competing against the best thoroughbreds of. America...-■• -:•;.;.'.•■ : ■ ■;.:. -. .' ;■'■

Though it was. too early for; him to'express any opinion, as to the of Pillow -Fightl-.:being.; chosen to fulfil: Mr. Davis's ambition,'it •was fairly evident that Mr. Davis had such hopes for his three-year-old.

: Regarding the death of Phar Lap, Mr. Davis refuted any suggestion that the horse was deliberately poisoned. He inclined to/the opinion that the horse's dramatic end was caused by the eating of alfalfa grass on which the morning dew had ■'■ fallen,' sufficient in /itself to cause; colic, and the fa.ct,.that the wind had; carried . leaves, from; trees/-'sprayed With arsenate of. lead into the /paddock where Phar Lap was grazing.,/' : .: •-,...'