Comments on: Phar Lap exhibition unveiled in Melbourne today!

By: Sangster

Sangster — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 04:25:37 +0000

that skeleton display always gives me a very strange feeling… i dont really know why.

By: marcia silverman pella

marcia silverman pella — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 04:09:35 +0000

Thank you very much, Jane, for the response. I will check out that link. Knowing that someone in my family was somewhat involved with Phar Lap would be such an honor…thanks again. Marcia

By: jane keig

jane keig — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 20:38:59 +0000

Thanks for the post Marcia.
Your best bet would be to contact Melbourne Museum as they hold a lot of Phar Lap ephemera. Here is the link to their online research request form – http://museumvictoria.com.au/discoverycentre/ask-us-a-question/general-research/.

Good luck!

By: marcia silverman pella

marcia silverman pella — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 00:51:35 +0000

I am looking for factual info about Phar lap racing in the USA. My father, Samuel Silverman, told me this….Davis (owner) brought Phar lap to USA to race and my father then met them as Davis was a relative. My dad was 16 at the time and told me that he was invited to return to Australia with them when his racing was finished here…although the horse’s death was to come. My father was from Providence, Rhode Island, and was with a stable (somewhere), having horses of his own. I am trying to find out if this story he told me was,in fact, true. It had been mentioned a lot. If I should be addressing this elsewhere, I would like to know. Marcia Silverman Pella.