About the Author

Phar Lap, by Geoff Armstrong and Peter Thompson, was published by Allen + Unwin in October 2000 and was acclaimed by many critics as the definitive biography of the great horse. Armstrong and Thompson have been associated with a number of sports books, often in collaboration with high-profile sportspeople such as Steve Waugh and Merv Hughes, in the years before and since that book was released, but still consider their overall work on the life, death and Melbourne Cup of Phar Lap to be their most important publishing achievement.