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The games have begun, but African American Jesse Owens shatters Hitler's dreams of Aryan supremacy, or did he? The Berlin Olympics were strange, but partly they are strange because the story we tell of them now is not the story told at the time.
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With Phar Lap now the favourite for the Melbourne Cup, Harry Telford started to turn his eye to his expiring contract with David Davis, resulting in the men engaging in more political manoeuvring than you see in Parliament.
None of this mattered to Phar Lap, who was about to deliver the greatest...
Published 11/17/24
As the Great Depression began to bite in Australia, Phar Lap would bounce from his third-place finish in the 1929 Melbourne Cup and begin to establish his legend.
With a display of front running that would shock the racing industry, Phar Lap would conquer the AJC Plate, before Harry Telford took...
Published 11/10/24