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Overlay
06-20-2008, 06:24 PM
http://sports.yahoo.com/rah/news?slug=ap-australia-pharlap&prov=ap&type=lgns

"MELBOURNE, Australia (AP)—Forensic scientists say champion Australian gelding Phar Lap died of arsenic poisoning, solving a mystery that has intrigued the horse racing world for more than 75 years."
46zilzal
06-20-2008, 06:28 PM
Wish I could have been there in 1932.
Shenanigans
06-20-2008, 06:33 PM
Old news.
Peter Berry
06-20-2008, 07:20 PM
Wish I could have been there in 1932.

WENT TO POST: 4:48. AT POST: 6-1/2 min.

What's that all about?
Overlay
06-20-2008, 07:25 PM
Perhaps they were racing without a starting gate, and it took them that long to get all the horses settled and lined up for a fair start.
Pace Cap'n
06-20-2008, 09:24 PM
Didn't the movie show him barely getting up, or am I thinking of another movie?
DrugS
06-20-2008, 10:26 PM
He paid $6.60 to place and $5 to win?
Greyfox
06-21-2008, 12:26 AM
"Kemspon took six hairs from Phar Lap’s mane and analyzed them at the Advanced Photon Source Synchrotron in Chicago, finding that in the 40 hours before Phar Lap’s death the horse had ingested a massive dose of arsenic."

Hair today, gone tomorrow.
Same as Custer's command "Take No Prisoners!"
Hair today, gone tomorrow. Scalped.

If Kempson's findings are true, that's no surprise.
If Custer's order held, that would be. A surprise that is.
It's amazing what science says, or supposedly says.
Greyfox
06-21-2008, 12:29 AM
Wish I could have been there in 1932.

Maybe you were. Ask Mom. :lol:
46zilzal
06-21-2008, 03:25 AM
Maybe you were. Ask Mom.
She was eight and living in Alabama.
46zilzal
06-21-2008, 03:32 AM
Perhaps they were racing without a starting gate, and it took them that long to get all the horses settled and lined up for a fair start.
Starting gates did not front gates as horses were just backed in and often did not settle for long periods of time. The "gate" of that day was glorified stalls.