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Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Pittsburgh Phil (AUS)

Chestnut colt (2yo) 1992 - 11/2/1995, by Rory's Jester ex Book of Verse
Trainer: ?
Owners: Mr RW Menzies, J L Irons, SC Hunter, S Volkov, AP Imbardelli, PT Leeds
3 2-0-0 $40,850 Stakes AU
Sandown 1000m Blud Diamond Prelude
Previously unbeaten 2 year old colt Pittsburg Phill collapsed and died during the Group 3 Blue Diamond Prelude at Sandown, 11th of February, 1995.
'Contributed by reader'

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Another, we will never know how good he could have been.

Anonymous said...

I was at Sandown that day and it was one of the saddest things to see. In the straight in full view of the grandstand. It was like Pittsburgh Phil just knew he was in trouble and ever so slowly pulled up and dropped to the ground and died with the jockey still on his back.Truly tragic.