The Eighty-Dollar Champion: Snowman, the Horse That Inspired a Nation
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The Eighty-Dollar Champion: Snowman, the Horse That Inspired a Nation
November 1958: the National Horse Show at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Into the rarefied atmosphere of wealth and tradition comes the most unlikely of horses --- a drab white former plow horse named Snowman --- and his rider, Harry de Leyer. They were the longest of all longshots --- and their win was the stuff of legend.
Here is the dramatic and inspiring rise to stardom of an unlikely duo, based on the insight and recollections of “the Flying Dutchman” himself. Their story captured the heart of Cold War–era America --- a story of unstoppable hope, inconceivable dreams, and the chance to have it all. Elizabeth Letts’s message is simple: Never give up, even when the obstacles seem sky-high. There is something extraordinary in all of us.
The Eighty-Dollar Champion: Snowman, the Horse That Inspired a Nation
- Publication Date: May 29, 2012
- Genres: Biography, Nonfiction
- Paperback: 368 pages
- Publisher: Ballantine Books
- ISBN-10: 0345521099
- ISBN-13: 9780345521095
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