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Woodcock, Mr. Davis explains that "If I did, the goddamn horse would sit in his stall for the next month and cry." Tommy Woodcock also doesn't listen to advice about different horse shoes to suit the different track surface and Phar Lap badly cracks his front right hoof further hampering his preparation for the big race. Before the race, word gets out that some jockeys may have been bribed to keep Phar Lap boxed into the rails during the race, not allowing him to win and keep gamblers from losing large amounts of money. So before the race, Davis instructs jockey Billy Elliot to lead from the start, but Tommy Woodcock immediately counters this by telling Elliot to run Phar Lap's normal race of starting slow and finishing fast. Using Tommy Woodcock's advice (which initially angers Davis), Elliot rides Phar Lap to win the
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The horse is now back under Mr. Davis's control after the three-year agreement runs out. Mr. Davis then offers half of Phar Lap's ownership to Telford for £20,000, which Telford can't afford. Telford then fakes a hoof injury on Phar Lap and hoodwinks Mr. Davis into thinking that Phar Lap is lame, and
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Phar Lap lost his first few races, but Tommy Woodcock educated the horse by holding him back when they were training, sensing that the horse liked to come from behind. When Phar Lap started training well, Telford took the credit, telling Mr. Davis that he has "knocked that lazy streak out of him at
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Tommy Woodcock form a strong bond. After Telford gallops Phar Lap hard up and down sand dunes, Tommy finds Phar Lap exhausted in his stable and immediately goes to Telford's home and confronts him about how hard he rode Phar Lap, saying that "he looked half dead." Telford sacked Tommy Woodcock, but
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100,000 to $ 50,000. Tommy Woodcock soon clashes with Mr. Davis over Tommy's softer training methods and sometimes non-cooperative ways, including taking Phar Lap away from a press conference and back to his stable before the conference was finished. When questioned by Crofton about sacking Tommy
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As Tommy Woodcock walks Phar Lap across the street after a workout, someone tries to shoot the horse, and Tommy puts himself in between the gun and Phar Lap. Tommy Woodcock and Phar Lap go into hiding at a stud farm outside Melbourne, arriving at
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in 1931. And they threaten to permanently ban Mr. Davis and Phar Lap from racing if Mr. Davis takes Phar Lap out of the Melbourne Cup. Phar Lap surges to the lead but fades and finishes eighth, and the racing authorities face jeering crowds.
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Wincer later admitted he was disappointed the film did not attract the 14- to 22-year-old audience, and thought it might have been due to the movie's relative lack of romance. However, it remains one of the most popular Australian films.
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getting off the boat in Australia. The film continues like the original version and ends with his death. This was done to make the ending more dramatic, since residents of the United States were unfamiliar with the story of Phar Lap.
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includes among the "extras" on the second disc a long audio recording of a conversation between Aaron Treve "Tommy" Woodcock and director Simon Wincer on 4 July 1984, and a short newsreel documentary
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was the richest race in the world. Telford, saying that Phar Lap has brought him "nothing but trouble" refuses to go himself, preferring to concentrate on his new stud and stables at
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hits, Phar Lap wins every race he enters. Mr. Davis attempts to capitalize on Phar Lap's success through shady betting schemes with known gambling identity Eric Connolly (
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then he was soon forced to give Tommy his job back when Phar Lap missed Tommy and stopped eating and wouldn't let anyone near him without ripping their shirt off.
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as Phar Lap's first win, although his first win was actually six months earlier in the RRC Maiden Juvenile Handicap at Sydney's other main racecourse
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Mr. Davis agrees to sell the half share of Phar Lap for only £4,000. Mr. Davis realizes he's been tricked when Phar Lap easily wins his next race.
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in California in 1932. The news is greeted with great sadness in Australia. The remainder of the film is done as
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grossed $ 9,258,884 at the box office in Australia, which is equivalent to $ 24,443,454 in 2009 dollars.
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Disney Studios wanted to release the film in the US but John Sexton and Wincer decided to go with
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to maximize Davis's betting returns. Under financial pressure, Telford reluctantly agrees.
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gelding who played Phar Lap was Towering Inferno. He was bred by Shirley Pye-Macmillan at
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From the 1983 movie "Phar Lap" using a chestnut lookalike horse named "Towering Inferno".
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A chestnut Thoroughbred horse called Phar Lap, known as Bobby by his
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last." He convinced Mr. Davis to pay the £30 entry fee into 1929
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Five years earlier, Phar Lap arrives in Australia, purchased for
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168 sight unseen from New Zealand. His trainer Harry Telford (
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Film Victoria - Australian Films at the Australian Box Office
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by removing unnecessary details and making it more concise.
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The "2 Disc Collector's Edition" released in Australia as
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The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello
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As Phar Lap is brought into the stables, he and a young
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Scott Murray, "Simon Wincer: Trusting His Instincts",
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