A Horse for My Kingdom
"Ee was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again," said Hamlet, and it was with these words, minus the first phrase (the substitution of "horse" for "man" would probably have verged on the bathetic), that the 2ZB announcer concluded his programme on "the Red Terror, the great, the incomparable Phar Lap" in the Tuesday night series, Great -Days of Sport. I had listened more or less inadvertently to the earlier programme, but found myself unable to stop short of the Melbourne Cup, cunningly "concluded in our next." The next programme transported me from Melbourne to the thundering hooves of California’s Agua Caliente, and to the stable where, at 2.30 on April 5, 1932, Phar Lap "passed forever from the gay and brilliant scene." Racing is good dramatic material in itself, and when this is combined with the national pride aroused in the New Zealander by the name Phar Lap, and seasoned with a
dash of suspicion as to his untimely end (fortunately dispelled by this programme), the emotional impact is ‘so terrific that the listener can swallow without straining the application to Phar Lap of lines intended for the Elder Hamlet.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 381, 11 October 1946, Page 10
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205A Horse for My Kingdom New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 381, 11 October 1946, Page 10
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