They Tried to Kill This Horse. Three Days Later, He Won.

He was bought sight unseen for 160 guineas, and the man who paid for him refused to cover his keep. Two and a half years later, someone fired a shotgun at him from a passing car on a Melbourne street, and sixteen days after the greatest race of his life, he was dead. What his heart revealed on a California postmortem table explained how Phar Lap beat everything put in front of him. What six hairs from his mane revealed seventy-six years later is still being argued about.