The Melbourne Cup is Australia's internationally renowned horse race and no Melbourne Cup better illustrates the great race as truly as Phar Lap's Cup.
Seventy-five years on, most Australians are aware of the circumstances of Phar Lap's amazing win, the attempts to kill him, how he was spirited away to Geelong in the dead of night, how the float that was to take him back to Flemington refused to start, and how, after he finally and dramatically made it to the track he destroyed the Cup field becoming the first and to this day only horse to win the Cup as an odds-on favourite.
Geoff Armstrong and Peter Thompson, authors of the bestselling 'Phar Lap' (2000), undertake a detailed analysis of the 1930 Cup including interviews with eyewitnesses - one of whom, 92-year-old Les Church, claimed to have witnessed the shooting as well as the race.
Not only the story of Phar Lap of course, but the trainers, the big punters, the backroom boys, and the other horses racing on the day.
