They Shot Phar Lap, Didn't They? - Geoff Armstrong, Peter Thompson

They Shot Phar Lap, Didn't They?

Buch | Softcover
240 Seiten
2010
Murdoch Books (Verlag)
978-1-74266-033-2 (ISBN)
12,45 inkl. MwSt
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The story of four days in November 1930 that became at the same time the most famous and infamous in Cup history, over the plot to stop Phar Lap winning the Melbourne Cup. For the newspapers, the twin stories of sporting greatness and seedy corruption were a sensational cocktail.
Phar Lap's rise to greatness in 1930 triggered extraordinary excitement across Australia but it also spooked bookmakers, who faced ruin if the wonder horse won the Melbourne Cup. Rumours were swirling: would Phar Lap be stopped, whatever the cost? They Shot Phar Lap, Didn't They? starts with a scene straight out of a Raymond Chandler whodunit, as two shadowy figures, one armed with a shotgun, try to assassinate Phar Lap on a quiet suburban backstreet. With his life in peril, the champion is spirited away to a secret location, while one of the city's most famous detectives leads the hunt for the culprits. On Cup Day, an hour before the jump, Phar Lap's whereabouts remain a mystery to the public. Finally, he arrives at the track, a huge crowd cheering him on. The police have been told to 'have their men along the rails' because the perpetrators of Saturday's attack intend to strike again. But was the 'shooting' all that it seemed? Only one thing is certain--after all he'd been through, it would take a phenomenal performance for Phar Lap to win this Cup...

Phar Lap, by Geoff Armstrong and Peter Thompson, was published in 2000 and was acclaimed by many critics as the definitive biography of the great horse. Armstrong and Thompson have been associated with a number of sports books, often in collaboration with high-profile sportspeople such as Steve Waugh and Merv Hughes, in the years before and since that book was released, but still consider their overall work on the life, death and Melbourne Cup of Phar Lap to be their most important publishing achievement.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 1.10.2010
Verlagsort Millers Point
Sprache englisch
Themenwelt Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Sport Reiten / Pferde
ISBN-10 1-74266-033-9 / 1742660339
ISBN-13 978-1-74266-033-2 / 9781742660332
Zustand Neuware
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