Book description
A wonderful, forgotten racing story set in The Great DepressionIn 1932,
they said there would never be another Phar Lap. Yet within months there
came a racehorse so wildly brilliant that he was instantly compared to
the dead champion. He was Peter Pan. Within months of Phar Lap's death,
Peter Pan had won the Melbourne Cup and then two years later, won it
again - the first horse in 72 years to take home a second. The
newspapers of the day called him a 'superhorse' and declared 'another
Phar Lap takes the stage.' But over the long years, Australia forgot
their new champion. Peter Pan: The Forgotten Story of Phar Lap's
Successor is the tale of the horse that came next - the brilliant,
speedy Peter Pan. Casting off the shadow of Phar Lap, this tells the
story of triumph during the Great Depression and the coming of a
champion when Australia least expected one. It is time to restore the
standing of our other great racing hero. Jessica Owers was born the
year Kingston Town won his first Cox Plate. In 1988 she was introduced
to Phar Lap on the school curriculum, and she has been writing about
racehorses ever since. After completing a degree in environmental
science and journalism from the University of Stirling, Scotland,
Jessica worked as a riding instructor, then staff-writer for the
Sydney-based magazines R. M. Williams' Outback and Breeding&Racing.
Her work has since been published in Inside Breeding, The Thoroughbred,
Turf Monthly and Racing Life, along with various other books and
publications across the Australian racing industry. Jessica lives in
Sydney's eastern suburbs. Peter Pan: The Forgotten Story of Phar Lap's
Successor is her first book, and the result of five years of work. She
is currently writing her second racing book.
