PILAR LAP'S PART OWNER

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21358, 6 December 1932, Page 7

PILAR LAP'S PART OWNER

MR. DAVIS' AMBITION

EYES ON AMERICAN TURF

A desire to nice other Australian and New Zealand horses against American champions is expressed by Mr. I). J. Davis, of (Sydney, part-owner of the famous Phar Lap, who arrived at Auckland by the Monterey yesterday on his way back to Australia from the United States, Mr. Davis visited Takanini yesterday to sec for the first time his three-year-old Pillow -Fight, of whom great things are expected. Mr. Davis also said he was endeavouring to obtain a Mew Zealand-bred horse who would prove a worthy successor to Phar Lap.

" If I have a horse good enough, I will definitely race him in America,-" -Mr. Davis said. "'Phar Lap's one victory gave mo more pleasure than any of his victories in Australia, but I am sorry he did not have further opportunities of competing against the best American thoroughbreds. I cannot say yet whether Pillow Fight will carry on from where Phar Lap finished."

Mr. Davis said it was absurd to suggest that Phar Lap had been del borately poisoned after his famous .American victory. Ho thought the horse's dentil had been caused by the c.uting oE alfalfa grass on which morning dew had fallen—sufficient in itself to cause colic—and the fact that the wind had carred leaves from trees sprayed with arsenate of lead into the paddock where Pilar Lap was grazing.