b'142976 979976HARRY TELFORDS NEW ZEALAND THOROUGHBRED YEARLING SALE Catalogue titled New Zealand Thoroughbred Yearling Sale for January 21st 1927, endorsed First & Official Catalogue and signed by the auctioneer D.W.J.Gould, with extensive notes and annotations throughout, including references to Harry Telford purchasing Lot 20 for 210 guineas & Lot 22 for 325 guineas.It was in 1928 that Harry Telford returned to New Zealand to attend the yearling sales. He purchased Lot 41, which he named Phar Lap. And the rest is history. $8001,200977VICTORIA RACING CLUB: 1928 Victoria Derby 1st Day, 3rd November, Victoria Racing Club, Spring Meeting, 1928, Derby Day, Official Programme. Excellent condition.The 1928 Victoria Derby was won by Strephon; the following year it was won by Phar Lap who also won the AJC Derby the previous month. .$5007509781928-29 Epsom Turf Club Members Ladys Ticket, issued to member No.112 with one gate coupon still intact, grey leather with gold embossing, superb condition. $801209791929 OFFICIAL PROGRAMME/RACE BOOK: for Melbourne Cup Day, Victoria Racing Club, Spring Meeting 1929, Official Programme (Tuesday, 5th November) listing Phar Lap in his first Melbourne Cup. Phar Lap ran 3rd, taking his record to that date for his 5 starts to: 5-1-1. The 1929 Melbourne Cup was won by Nightmarch, the first horse to win both the Melbourne Cup and the Cox Plate in the same year. Punters lost an estimated 1 million when Phar Lap went down in the 1929 Melbourne Cup, and jockey Bobby Lewis, regarded as a pocket Hercules, was the fall guy. Folklore contends that Lewis conspired with his mate Eric Connolly, a turf mastermind, to bring the champion undone. We often wondered, you know . Bobby Lewis was a great friend of Eric Connolly, the manager of Nightmarch, strapper Tommy Woodcock, who tended to Phar Lap as if he were family, divulged in an interview many years later. $2,0003,0009801929 OFFICIAL PROGRAMME/RACE BOOK: VRC Stakes Day The Last Day, Victoria Racing Club, Spring Meeting, 1929, Official Programme (Saturday 9th November), showing Phar Lap entered in the One and a Half-Mile C.B. Fisher Plate, but scratched. (Only 4 days earlier Phar Lap had run 3rd in the Melbourne Cup). .$500750'