Research Catalog

Title

Daylight second / Kelly Ana Morey.

Author

Morey, Kelly Ana, 1968-

Publication

• Auckland, N.Z. HarperCollins Publishers New Zealand, 2016.
• ℗♭2016

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Details

Description

352 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

In a new novel about the Australian race horse Phar Lap, award -winning writer, Kelly Ana Morey recreates the short life of the gigantic chestnut gelding who became the darling of the Australian race tracks during the Depression years. From Timaru in New Zealand where he was born, to Australia where he rewrote track and race records and finally Mexico where he would run his last race, Daylight Second chronicles the death threats and attempts on Phar Lap's life that were made before the running of two of the three Melbourne Cups he contested, his many triumphs including winning the Melbourne Cup in 1930 and the Agua Caliente Handicap in 1932, and finally his death in America in mysterious circumstances. Part richly imagined biography, part portrait of two marriages, Daylight Second is also the story of the people who knew the champion race horse as Bobbie; his trainer Harry Telford and beloved strapper Tommy Woodcock, and the two very different women who would become their wives.

Alternative Title

Daylight 2nd

Subject

• Phar Lap (Race horse), 1926-1932 > Fiction
• Phar Lap (Race horse), 1926-1932
• Melbourne Cup (Horse race) > Fiction
• Race horses > Fiction
• Horse trainers > Fiction
• Horse trainers
• Race horses

Genre/Form

• Fiction
• Historical fiction
• Fiction.
• History

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

• 9781775540526 (pbk)
• 1775540529 (pbk)

OCLC

958852338

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library