Killing Phar Lap: A Forensic Investigation - Ep 4

11/06/20 • 33 min

Killing Phar Lap: A Forensic Investigation

High Hopes – Taking on the World – “The best holiday I ever had, just me and me horse” - California here I come.
After amassing a fortune on Phar Lap, why would our great horse’s owners send him to the dodgy race tracks of Mexico and the United States?
Tommy & Phar Lap arrive in Tijuana for The Agua Caliente Handicap, the so called richest horse race in the world.

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Killing Phar Lap: A Forensic Investigation - Ep 3

In the Arms of Criminals on the San Mateo Peninsula. Kerry describes Phar Lap’s excruciating death at Menlo Park, California followed by the immediate & critical post mortem.

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Killing Phar Lap: A Forensic Investigation - Ep 5

The Border Barons - Satan’s Playground - Hollywood movie stars and mafia mobsters mix it up at the famed Agua Caliente Race Club resort and casino.
Sore Heads - empty pockets – Dave Davis and his inside circle win a fortune on Phar Lap to the wrath of the mob’s race fixers, and quickly leave Mexico for the safety of the Menlo Park ranch, California
Back at the Menlo Park ranch, it is horse heaven, gangster heaven. But then .. everything went wrong ... “Did Ed Perry recruit Bill Nielsen into the death plan?
Horse vet Jay Hansen recalls his family’s time living at the Menlo Park ranch in 1932 when Phar Lap died.