Phar Lap...

Phar Lap was the combination of Seabiscuit, and Secretariat. He was bigger than Secretariat, standing tall at 17.2hh, and he was, to some, much more red than Man O' War. Unlike Secretariat and Man O' War, however, he was called the Red Terror


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[DressageStar109]

what's the name of the song? ? ? ( music)

[carlykaiser]

@DressageStar109 Its the main music from the movie

[katnjas]

Guys. stop this shit about Phar Lap vs Secretariat. they both had the antiques. Phar lap. Didnt win all his races but he had stamina and he was the first horse to be found to have an over sized heart. Secretariat. won pretty much all hsi races and had the same size heart. They were both good runners. End of story

[squirttle92]

You can not compare horses from different eras. Phar Lap dominated the tracks in the 1930s, whilst Sec was a star in the 1970s. That's a 40 year time gap, a huge amount of time for horse racing and technology to evolve. A horse in the 30s would have never had access to the medical practices, balanced feeds, training techniques, farriers, racing surfaces, jockey riding styles etc that a horse in the 70s had. What would have Sec been like in the 30s, or what would have Phar Lap done in the 70s?

[ChampionDark1]

AustralianWolf11 but in his last race the Aussie Newspapers ran to Headlines one claiming him if he won and one calling him a Kiwi if he lost. Still this is all in fun I joke about this with my Aussie mates in Bangkok every year just fun. But hey if you guys want to claim something Kiwi for your own don't make it Pharlap, take Russell Crowe.

[AustralianWolf11]

@ChampionDark1 umm lets just say hes both kiwi and australian...since Phar Lap was trained and raced in Australia and be was foaled in NZ (:

[michaela9845]

yea go phar lap

[smegmatrap]

phar lap is the best.

[emmelby]

@SusMerkava Secretariat was 16.2hh not 17.2hh, but if you're wanting a modern day height comparison to Phar Lap, Zenyatta is 17.2hh.

[ChampionDark1]

Pharlap was the best of the best, The Best there was the best there is and the best there ever will be. It is an insult to his name that you even try to rate scum houses against him but the biggest insult is people call him Australian when he was a Kiwi

[SusMerkava]

Secretariat and Man O' War were both 17.2hh.

[emmelby]

Amazes me how few people understand that virtually any horse racing in Phar Lap's era was being fed tonics that included arsenic, along with other ingredients that are still, to this day, used in homeopathic remedies. The most common ingredients were used to prevent or minimise colic and cramp. They were legal at the time, and cannot in any way be accurately compared to performance-enhancing substances like the use of anabolic steroids in human athletes.

[emmelby]

@mrboppman1 He won 2 Derbys, both 12f, won 3 times at 14f, won over 2 1/4 miles, and came 3rd in the Melbourne Cup over 2 miles at 3yo. At 4yo he won 3 times at 12f and won the Melbourne Cup carrying 9st 12lb. At 5yo he won once at 12f and once at 2 miles, his only miss was thee Melbourne Cup where he was given 10st 10lb. Discounting his 2yo season, he raced 46 times, 35 times over 9f or further. Hope this helps. :)

[mrboppman1]

I'd still like to have seen pharlap and secretariat run ! someone said pharlap wasn't trained for distance I have no idea I don't know anything about this.correct me if i'm wrong