SUDDEN ILLNESS
(Press. Assn.-
ATTACK OF COLIC PROVES FATAL, DESPITE EYERY EFFORT attendants' visible sorrow
-By Telegraph — Copyrlght).
SAN FRANCISCO, Tuesday. Phar Lap, the wonderful New Zealand-bredt and Australiariowned racehorse is dead. He succunibed to an attack of colic and indigestion to-day on. Mr. E. Perry's stock farm near Mento Park. Phar Lap was stricken in the morning. The symptoms developed so rapidly that the veterinarians were anable to counteract them and the horse died at 2.20 in the afternoon. The news of his death was withheld for an hour. At the time of his death, Mr. Davis, [he part-owner, was en route to Los ingeles, and the attendants were un=ble immediately to notify him. Phar Lap was brought to Mr. Perry's farm to groom for the forthoming race, and at the same tixrie i) undergo treatment for his bruised ;0of. Dr. Neilson directed the efforts to ave the horse's lif e, and he was visMy moved by his death, as were the itendants.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 192, 7 April 1932, Page 5
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