As Pharlap's "Mama", I can, with authority, say that he indeed was named after the famous Aussie race horse Phar Lap, which was a slight misspelling of the aboriginal word for "lightning"...
Thank you everyone for your kind words about my beautiful baby. I actually submitted that photo of him 4 months ago, so he is now 11 months old and over 90lbs....and in a scraggly summer stage of coat blowing. But beautiful nonetheless.


Originally posted by Angels3:
Pharlap, you sure are handsome. You look as if you have a bit of blue heeler in your ancestry. I'm interested in how you got your name. Phar Lap was the name of a famous australian racehorse. Only the spelling is slightly different.
I'm glad that such a good-looking dog with the name of a famous racehorse has become Dog of the Day.

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-Erin