In 1929 the wall street stock market crashed and the world economy collapsed, wiping billions of the world economy. Australia took the most of the blow, with an increase of businesses vanishing, unemployment sky rocketing leading to wide spread poverty however 1930 is also known as the golden age of sport. There was Don Bradman, Australians best ever batsman, there was Collingwood winning 4 grand finals in a row, and then came to this lanky, huge chestnut gelding called Phar lap. He trotted off the boat from New Zealand with boils and warts all over his hide. Costing his trainer Harry Telford and owner David Davis 160 Guinness, little did they know he would go onto be the greatest Australian horse ever.

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In 1929 an ugly mistreated chestnut gelding trotted off the boat from New Zealand and would carry on to go to his trainers Harry Telford’s Stable. Phar Lap was slow and lanky, it took him 9 starts to win his first race, and then something clicked, he would then go on to win 37 of his next 41 starts including an international cup. Phar Lap was able to unite the nation together through tough time, he had done this by being “the people's horse” with the horse’s ability to win from a mile to 2 miles was astonishing and no horse could ever do it and no horse has yet been able to do it. Many race goers would scrap up the shilling or pound they had left and would go and put it on Phar Lap who was almost a certainty bet. The 1930 Melbourne cup was a milestone and an attraction, Phar Lap created a crowd of almost 120,000 people a record. Phar Lap lugged around the Flemington race track with Jim pike on his back carrying 63Kg a record weight carried in any Melbourne cups, this proves the point of he was almost unbeatable forcing the VCR committee to do everything in their power to create it an even playing field. His trainer Harry Telford and owner David Davis set up a betting scam where they would have fixed odds bet of the second favourite in the Caulfield cup into Phar Lap in the Melbourne cup, and then scratch Phar Lap from the Caulfield cup, of course this bet