b'817171929 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.$3,0004,000718 719718OFFICIAL PROGRAMME/RACE BOOK: 1929 VRC Oaks Oaks Day, Victoria Racing Club, Spring Meeting, 1929, Official Programme (Thursday 7th November), the Previous Winners pages recording Phar Laps 1st in the Victoria Derby & 3rd in the Melbourne Cup.$6008007191929 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). $8001,200720 721720PHAR LAP Australian folkart plaque, carved kauri pine with remains of paint, circa 1930, 36 x 30cm. $250350721JOSEPH GREENBERG (1923 - 2007), Phar Lap - Winner of 30 Cup, with Jimmy Pike, mixed media on canvas board, circa 1985, titled verso, 37 x 44cm$200400'