Editing Phar Lap (section)

==Legacy==
[[File:PharLap'sHeart.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Phar Lap's heart at the [[National Museum of Australia]]. It was formerly held by the Institute of Anatomy in Canberra.]]
Following his death, Phar Lap's heart was donated to the Institute of Anatomy in [[Canberra]] and his skeleton to the [[Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa|New Zealand's National Museum]] in [[Wellington]]. After preparations of the hide by New York City taxidermist [[Louis Paul Jonas]],<ref name=Guardian>{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/oct/04/phar-laps-90th-birthday-celebrated-with-cake-cameras-and-a-living-portrait
 |title=Phar Lap's 90th birthday|last=Wallquist|first=Calla|date=3 October 2016 |website=www.TheGuardian.com|publisher= Guardian News & Media|access-date=20 July 2021}}</ref> Phar Lap's stuffed body was placed in the Australia Gallery at [[Melbourne Museum]]. The hide and the skeleton were put on exhibition together when [[Te Papa|Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa]] lent the skeleton to the Melbourne Museum in September 2010 as part of celebrations for the 150th running of the [[2010 Melbourne Cup]].<ref>{{CiteQ|Q106839617}}</ref>

Phar Lap's heart was remarkable for its size, weighing {{convert|6.2|kg|lbs}}, compared with a normal horse's heart at {{convert|3.2|kg|lbs}}. Now held at the [[National Museum of Australia]] in Canberra, it is the object visitors most often request to see. The author and film maker [[Peter Luck]] was convinced the heart is a fake. In Luck's 1979 television series ''This Fabulous Century'', the daughter of Walker Neilson, the government veterinarian who performed the first post-mortem on Phar Lap, says her father told her the heart was necessarily cut to pieces during the autopsy, and the heart on display is that of a draughthorse.<ref>David Dale, "Fakes & Fictions", ''Sydney Morning Herald'', 18 September 1999, Spectrum, p.7s</ref> However the expression "a heart as big as Phar Lap" to describe a very generous or courageous person became a popular idiom.<ref>{{cite book|title=Australia|author=Jeffery Pike and Brian Bell|page=105|publisher=Langenscheidt|year=2002|isbn=9812347992}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Speaking Our Language: The Story of Australian English|author=Bruce Moore|page=205|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2008|isbn=978-0195565782}}</ref>

Several books and films have featured Phar Lap, including the 1983 film ''[[Phar Lap (film)|Phar Lap]]'', and the song "Phar Lap—Farewell To You".

Phar Lap was one of five inaugural inductees into both the [[Australian Racing Hall of Fame]] and [[New Zealand Racing Hall of Fame]]. In the [[Blood-Horse magazine]] ranking of the [[Blood-Horse magazine List of the Top 100 U.S. Racehorses of the 20th Century|Top 100 U.S. Thoroughbred champions of the 20th century]], Phar Lap was ranked No. 22.

The horse is considered to be a national icon in both Australia and New Zealand.<ref>{{cite web | title = Sportsmen and women (... and a horse and a boat). | work = Australian Government | publisher = Australian High Commission – New Zealand | url = http://www.australia.org.nz/wltn/OzK_Sports.html | access-date = 2009-04-24}}</ref><ref name="trust">{{cite web |url=http://www.pharlap.org.nz/index.html |title=Phar Lap's return to Timaru |work=The Phar Lap Trust |access-date=25 April 2009 |archive-date=30 January 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180130084922/http://www.pharlap.org.nz/index.html |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="Media">{{cite web |url=http://www.legislation.vic.gov.au/domino/Web_Notes/newmedia.nsf/955cbeae7df9460dca256c8c00152d2b/071f621f40e42175ca25708f000b46da!OpenDocument |title=Minister promotes Spring Racing Carnival in New Zealand |work=From the Minister for Racing, Minister for tourism|access-date=27 April 2009}}</ref> In 1978 he was honoured on a [[postage stamp]] issued by [[Australia Post]]<ref>{{Cite web| title=Australia 50c stamp | url=http://www.australianstamp.com/images/large/0012460.jpg | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100213043816/http://www.australianstamp.com/images/large/0012460.jpg | archive-date=2010-02-13}}</ref> and features in the [[Australian citizenship test]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.democrats.org.au/articles/index.htm?article_id=159 |title=Just how Australian are you? |publisher=Democrats.org.au |date=5 October 2007 |access-date=2010-05-06 |archive-date=14 October 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071014232258/http://democrats.org.au/articles/index.htm?article_id=159 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Phar Lap has been honoured with a $500,000 life-sized bronze memorial near his birthplace in [[Timaru, New Zealand]], that was unveiled on 25 November 2009.<ref name="trust" /> The statue is located at the entrance to Phar Lap Raceway in [[Washdyke]].<ref>{{cite web |date=26 November 2009 |title=Phar Lap sculpture unveiled in Timaru |url=https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/16568/phar-lap-sculpture-unveiled-in-timaru |access-date=6 February 2019 |website=Radio New Zealand}}</ref> There is also a life-sized bronze statue at [[Flemington Racecourse]] in [[Melbourne]].<ref>[http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-an12549243-72 Photo of the statue of Phar Lap at Flemington Racecourse] – National Library of Australia</ref> 

Phar Lap has several residential streets named after him in Australia, New Zealand, and the United States. (In many cases, the name is merged into a single word "Pharlap".)

In 1931, [[Gilbert Percy Whitley]], an ichthyologist at the [[Australian Museum]], proposed a new genus of seahorse, ''Farlapiscis'',<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Whitley |first1=Gilbert P. |title=New Names for Australian Fishes |journal=The Australian Zoologist |date=1931 |volume=6 |issue=4 |page=313 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/38710890}}</ref> named after Phar Lap.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Whitley |first1=Gilbert |last2=Allan |first2=Joyce |title=The Sea-Horse and its Relatives |date=1958 |publisher=Georgian House |location=Melbourne |page=35 |chapter=Phar Lap, The Short-Snouted or Yellow-Ringed Sea Horse}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Scales |first1=Helen |author-link=Helen Scales |title=Poseidon's Steed: The Story of Seahorses, from Myth to Reality |date=2009 |publisher=Gotham Books |location=New York |isbn=978-1-101-13376-7 |chapter=Notes: Chapter 2 |at=Footnote 28}}</ref> ''Farlapiscis'' was subsequently categorised as a [[junior synonym]] of the genus ''[[Hippocampus (fish)|Hippocampus]]''.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Ginsburg |first1=Isaac |title=Review of the Seahorses (''Hippocampus'') Found on the Coasts of the American Continents and of Europe |journal=Proceedings of the United States National Museum |date=1937 |volume=83 |issue=2997 |page=530 |doi=10.5479/si.00963801.83-2997.497 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7768089}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Kuiter |first1=Rudie H. |title=Revision of the Australian seahorses of the genus ''Hippocampus'' (Syngnathiformes: Syngnathidae) with descriptions of nine new species |journal=Records of the Australian Museum |date=2001 |volume=53 |issue=3 |page=297 |doi=10.3853/j.0067-1975.53.2001.1350|doi-access=free }}</ref>