Phar Lap mystery solved

[prudery]

More b.s. from Yahoo ... This is old news in every way ...

The test was performed in 2006, and the mystery was proclaimed solved then by the same scientists... Replay ...

The hairs tested came from the taxidermy---which was preserved with arsenic ...

Many horses of Phar Lap's time received tonic containing arsenic, and strychnine ... Also containing similar toxins was the grass sprayed with insecticide he was accidently grazed on at Menlo Park ...

The 1932 autopsy clearly showed arsenic in his system---more old news ...


All this proved was that he died with arsenic in his system---long known---not the cause of death ... And that the hairs from the taxidermy preserved with arsenic showed---mirabile dictu---duh---arsenic ...