Forensic scientists in Melbourne, Australia say champion Australian gelding Phar Lap died of arsenic poisoning, solving the 75-year-old mystery. Notebooks kept by Phar Lap's handler Tommy Woodcock, obtained by Museum Victoria, show the horse was administered tonics and ointments containing both arsenic and strychnine. Now proven to be an accidental overdose, speculations of a conspired death may rest.
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