PHAR LAP

Hokitika Guardian, 13 March 1931, Page 5

PHAR LAP

HIS WINNING RECORD. Greatness, in whatever way it is achieved, evokes admiration, and that distinction the wonderful Rliar Lap attained alien he succeeded in winning the Caulfield Futurity Stakes, says the Sydney writer “Musket.” f[is greatness lies in the fact that his weight. 10.3, is the heaviest ever carried to victory by a four-year-old in this race, for, though Eurythmic won with 10.7 in 1922, he was then a five-year-old. Pliar Lap’s 9.12 in the Melbourne Cup last spring is also the greatest weight successfull carried by a four-year-old. Therefore, to win Australia’s greatest two-mile handicap, and in the same season to be first home in the sevenfnrlong Futurity Stakes, carrying top weight in both races, proclaims Pliar Lap a phenomenal galloper over long and short distances. The victory enabled the great gelding to he the first horse to amass a winning total of over £50,000. The first horse in this part of the world to pass the £-10,000 mark was Gloaming, who was retired when his total stood at £43.100. At the beginning of this season A 11:01111 is was £2406 10s short of Gloaming’s figures, hut four more victories, including the Caulfield Cun and a second and a third, brought his total to £48.29i 10s. It was then expected that lie would he the first of our thoroughbreds to reach £■>o.ooo. hot at the Y.R.C. spring meeting lie had probably gone stale, for third in the .Melbourne Stakes and unplaced in the Linlithgow Stakes were the best lie could do. Of the three horses in this part of the world to win over £-10,000. the superiority <d Pliar Lap is emphasised by the fact that lie lias won more prHe-ir-oney in three seasons than the oilier two, who raced through seven seasons.