Australia's most famous race horse, Phar Lap, won the Melbourne Cup in 1930. The following year, Melbourne photographer Henry Moran took this picture of the great horse with the son of Phar Lap's trainer, Harry Telford. Telford liked to put his small son, Gerald, on Phar Lap for photos.
Henry Moran submitted the photograph to the Copyright Office for copyright registration just over a week after it was taken on 9 November 1931. Only five months later Phar Lap died suddenly in the United States.
The photograph of young Gerald Telford astride Phar Lap is held by the National Archives with Moran's original copyright application.
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