The name of New Zealand's most celebrated thoroughbred horse, Phar Lap, derives from the shared Zhuang and Thai word for lightning.

In the 20th century, the heart of Phar Lap was weighed and also documented to be, or essentially the same size as that of Eclipse.

In Australia, the most famous racehorse was Phar Lap ( bred in New Zealand ), who raced from 1928 to 1932.

Phar Lap carried to win the 1930 Melbourne Cup.

Phar Lap and Tulloch were both bred in New Zealand but did not race there.

The Phar Lap 286 DOS Extender Lite was also included.

Phar Lap ( 1926 – 1932 ) was a champion Thoroughbred racehorse whose achievements captured the public's imagination during the early years of the Great Depression.

Phar Lap dominated Australian racing during a distinguished career, winning a Melbourne Cup, two Cox Plates and 19 other weight for age races.

After a sudden and mysterious illness, Phar Lap died in 1932.

The name Phar Lap derives from the common Zhuang and Thai word for lightning: ฟ ้ าแลบ, lit.

Phar Lap was called the " Wonder Horse ", " Red Terror ", " Bobby " and " Big Red " ( the latter nickname was also given to two of the greatest US racehorses, Man o ' War and Secretariat ).

A chestnut gelding, Phar Lap was foaled on 4 October 1926 in Seadown near Timaru in the South Island of New Zealand.

Phar Lap was a brother to seven other horses, Fortune's Wheel, Nea Lap ( won 5 races ), Nightguard, All Clear, Friday Night, Te Uira and Raphis, none of which won a principal ( stakes ) race.

Although standing a winning racehorse at stud could be quite lucrative, Telford gelded Phar Lap anyway, hoping the colt would concentrate on racing.

Phar Lap finished last in the first race and did not place in his next three races.

Phar Lap took second in the Chelmsford Stakes at Randwick on 14 September 1929 and the racing community started treating him with respect.

Criminals tried to shoot Phar Lap on the morning of Saturday 1 November 1930 after he had finished track work.

Phar Lap winning the Melbourne Cup Race from Second Wind and Shadow King on 5 November 1930.

In the four years of his racing career, Phar Lap won 37 of 51 races he entered, including the Melbourne Cup in 1930 with 9 st 12 lb ( 61. 5 kg, or 138 lbs ).

From his win as a three-year-old in the VRC St. Leger Stakes until his final race in Mexico, Phar Lap won 32 of 35 races.

Phar Lap at the time was owned by American businessman David J. Davis and leased to Telford.

Davis then had Phar Lap shipped to America to race.

Phar Lap was shipped by boat to Agua Caliente Racetrack near Tijuana, Mexico, to compete in the Agua Caliente Handicap, which was offering the largest purse ever raced for in North America.

Phar Lap won in track-record time while carrying 129 pounds ( 58. 5 kg ) and was ridden by Billy Elliot for his seventh win from seven rides.

Phar Lap Software, Inc. was named after the horse.

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The version in the Conflict of Adam and Eve says: " Phar ’ an reigned over the children of Saphir, and built the city of Saphir with stones of gold ; and that is the land of Sarania, and because of these stones of gold, they say that the mountains of that country and the stones thereof are all of gold.

However, in 2006 Australian Synchrotron Research scientists said it was almost certain Phar Lap was poisoned with a large single dose of arsenic in the hours before he died, perhaps supporting the theory that Phar Lap was killed on the orders of U. S. gangsters, who feared the Melbourne-Cup-winning champion would inflict big losses on their illegal bookmakers.

" In December 2007 Phar Lap's mane was tested to find if he was given repeated doses of arsenic which, if found, would point to accidental poisoning.

However, in October 2011 the Sydney Morning Herald published an article in which a New Zealand physicist and information from Phar Lap's strapper state that the great horse was never given any tonic with arsenic and that he died of an infection.

Following his death, Phar Lap's heart was donated to the Institute of Anatomy in Canberra and his skeleton to the New Zealand's National Museum in Wellington.

Phar Lap's heart was remarkable for its size, weighing 6. 2 kg ( 13. 6 lbs ), compared with a normal horse's heart at 3. 2 kg.

Phar Lap was one of five inaugural inductees into both the Australian Racing Hall of Fame and New Zealand Racing Hall of Fame.

In the Blood-Horse magazine ranking of the Top 100 U. S. Thoroughbred champions of the 20th century, Phar Lap was ranked No. 22.

The double with the Melbourne Cup has only been achieved by six horses, namely, Makybe Diva, Might and Power, Saintly, Nightmarch, Phar Lap, and Rising Fast.

It was later revealed by cardiograph tests that Young Quinn's heart weighed 13 lb, only 1 lb less than that of the immortal racehorse Phar Lap.

The poems which were addressed to her, while they are far more restrained than those of `` Love In Dian's Lap '', show no great technical advance over those of the `` Narrow Vessel '' group and are, if anything, somewhat more labored.

The Hong Kong International Airport Automated People Mover is a driverless people-mover system located within the Hong Kong International Airport in Chek Lap Kok.

The famous former Kai Tak International Airport retired in favour of the recently constructed Hong Kong International Airport, also known as Chek Lap Kok International Airport.

Indian Ancient Sciences: Archaeology Based, ISBN-978-3-8383-9027-7, Lap Lambert-Germany.

* 1998 – Hong Kong's Kai Tak Airport is closed and the new Hong Kong International Airport at Chek Lap Kok becomes operational.

The Sámi are often known in other languages by the exonyms Lap, Lapp, or Laplanders, but many Sami regard these as pejorative terms.

* Lap slide guitars, particularly Weissenborns and their descendants.

*** Lap slide guitar, with a conventional wooden guitar box.

* Eller, Cynthia ( 1995 ) Living in the Lap of the Goddess: The Feminist Spirituality Movement in America.

The system debuted at " The Lap and Palmtop Expo " on 16 April 1991.

* July 6 – The new Hong Kong International Airport at Chek Lap Kok opens, while the historic Hong Kong Kai Tak Airport closes.

* 12. 48 km < sup > 2 </ sup > – Chek Lap Kok, the site of Hong Kong International Airport

Single-U and double-U preparation joints are also fairly common — instead of having straight edges like the single-V and double-V preparation joints, they are curved, forming the shape of a U. Lap joints are also commonly more than two pieces thick — depending on the process used and the thickness of the material, many pieces can be welded together in a lap joint geometry.

Lap cheong ( also lap chong, lap chung, lop chong ) are dried pork sausages that look and feel like pepperoni, but are much sweeter.

It is part of the Lantau Link, which, with two long span bridges links the New Territories and Lantau Island, and eventually leads to the Hong Kong International Airport on Chek Lap Kok via North Lantau Highway.

* Lap joints: One piece of wood overlaps another.