FAMOUS RACEHORSE
PHAR LAP'S STUFFED HIDE SHIPMENT TO AUSTRALIA (Received October 27, 5.5 p.m.) SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. C 6 The stuffed hide of Pilar Lap was shipped to Australia to-day by the Monowai. The New Zealand-bred champion horse Phar Lap died on April 5 at Mr. E. D. Perry's stock farm, near Menlo Park, California. Chemists, veterinary surgeons and Federal officials made a three weeks investigation of the death of the horse, which was ascribed to colic. I hey reported that arsenate, of lead was found in vital organs, but it could not be detei mined whether this caused inn' horse's fatal attack of acute indigestion. It was explained that the quantity of arsenate of lead was very small; leading to the belief that. Phar Lap might have survived if he had been otherwise sound.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21325, 28 October 1932, Page 11
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