PHAR LAP'S DEATH.
DELIBERATELY POISONED. SPORTING WHITER’S STORY. AUCKLAND, May 17. “I have no doubt, distasteful as it is to say it, that Phar Lap was deliberately poisoned,” said Mr. H. A. Wolfe, the Australian sporting writer, who went to America to report for a group of newspapers doings of the champion. “The suggestion that he died from colic is all moonshine,” said Mr. Wolfe. “After an investigation it was found that the theory that he had eaten alfalfa sprayed with arsenate of lead would not hold water.” Mr. Wolfe said that Phar Lap won the big race in a common canter, and there was no doubt that with ordinary luck in training he would have remained unbeaten. Ho was certain that Ammon Ra would do well in America.—(P.A.)
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Wairarapa Age, 18 May 1932, Page 5
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