Phar Lap

And people actually were starting to rate him with Tulloch then.

And funnily enough, after he won the Melbourne Cup two weeks later, they were starting to, to talk about him in the, uh, in the, in the same light as Phar Lap.

Um, that's how good he was.

He was a great horse.

It, it was, Sally.

I mean, they told me stories about, you know, Phar Lap and Bradman.

I was born in nineteen fifty-three and my parents were born in nineteen twenty-five and nineteen twenty-seven respectively, and they went through the Depression, Dad went to World War II, and it was a different world.

But, but those glorious moments of great people or great horses doing wonderful things, and it just turned me on as a young boy.

There's recency bias, but there's also nostalgia bias.

The nostalgia bias is greatest horse in Melbourne Cup history being Phar Lap, who ran in three Melbourne Cups and won one.

Makybe Diva ran in three Melbourne Cups and won three.

You can't default to Phar Lap.

Maharaj plays from the pads out to mid on.

But we do.

There's recency bias, but there's also nostalgia bias.

The nostalgia bias is greatest horse in Melbourne Cup history being Phar Lap who ran in three Melbourne Cups and won one.

Makybe Diva ran in three Melbourne Cups and won three.

You can't default to Phar Lap.

Maharaj plays from the pads out to mid on, but we do.

That's nostalgia bias.

BP, who's got the coveted gong for this week?

I'm gonna go to Sunday's meeting out at the Phar Lap.

What a great occasion it was there as well, celebrating 100 years, uh, of Phar Lap, and the club did an outstanding job to be able to do that as well.

And there was a horse, uh, in the last that carried the colors of Phar Lap.

Every race they had a horse, uh, carrying the colors, and this one was able to win in the famous colors, aided by a gun ride from Tristan Moodley.

Sat midfield, was able to get the split late and really took off, did Recitals.

Uh, well done to him.

And yeah, I just feel as though the overall moment was, was pretty cool.

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Well, if the race was run next week, I'd say Caening Rising 'cause Phar Lap's stuffed, literally.

Remember the time we, we broadcast that they moved Phar Lap-

They did

... from the museum?

Yeah.

And, uh, we had Roy Higgins on the spot.

He was our man on the spot, and he was, uh, describing, uh, Phar Lap.

Um, changed the game.

Um, another one, Phar Lap.

I know.

Um, into racing, racing season, you think about all the great horses.

Imagine going to see Phar Lap last month.

Wow, that'd be, that'd be amazing.

I- i- it, that, that's a really good one actually.

So he's the highest ever at 147.

And just as a, a, a comparison, um, Gary Chris, who does the Southern Hemisphere Time Form ratings and, um, runs Racing And Sports, he's done all the great Australian champions and our best is still Phar Lap at 141.

Yeah.

Right.