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Phar Lap to stand tall in Wellington

By AAP with AG Staff • 13 March 2012

Phar Lap's skeleton and hide on display at the Melbourne Museum in 2010. (Credit: Getty)

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Phar Lap’s skeleton has been remounted in a new more accurate way and put on display in New Zealand.

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