Dear Sir,

Your reviewer Jack Clancy, discussing The Phar lap Story (ABR Nov. 1983), writes that the horse Phar Lap died in Mexico. He died in California and, as far as I know, never trod on Mexican soil. I have learned lately an interesting lesson about books and film. I have not seen the film based on the life of Phar Lap, but whenever I speak to someone who has seen it. he tells me solemnly and reverently some purported fact about the life and times of Phar Lap which, when I check it, turns out to be false.

Yours faithfully.

Gerald Murnane,

Macleod, Vic.