The Eighty Dollar Champion Snowman the Horse That Inspired a Nation NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNovember 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

1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNovember 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 Harry de Leyer first saw 1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNovember 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 Harry de Leyer first saw the horse he would name Snowman on a bleak winter afternoon between the slats of a rickety truck bound for the slaughterhouse He recognized the spark in the eye of the beaten up horse and bought him for eighty dollars On Harry s modest farm on Long Island, the horse thrived But the recent Dutch immigrant and his growing family needed money, and Harry was always on the lookout for the perfect thoroughbred to train for the show jumping circuit so he reluctantly sold Snowman to a farm a few miles down the road But Snowman had other ideas about what Harry needed When he turned up back at Harry s barn, dragging an old tire and a broken fence board, Harry knew that he had misjudged the horse And so he set about teaching this shaggy, easygoing horse how to fly One show at a time, against extraordinary odds and some of the most expensive thoroughbreds alive, the pair climbed to the very top of the sport of show jumping Here is the dramatic and inspiring rise to stardom of an unlikely duo, based on the insight and recollections of the Flying Dutchman
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ELIZABETH LETTS is the 1 New York Times bestselling author of The Perfect Horse, winner of the 2017 PEN USA Award for Research Non fiction and The Eighty Dollar Champion, winner of the 2012 Daniel P Lenehan Award for Media Excellence from the United States Equestrian Foundation She is also the author of two novels, Quality of Care and Family Planning, and an award winning children s book, The Butter Man She majored in history at Yale, where she studied creative writing with Pulitzer Prize winner John Hersey Her writing has been recognized for numerous awards, including a John H Daniels fellowship, The Charlotte Zolotow Award honor book and the Middle East Book Award A lifelong equestrian, as a teen she represented Area VI California and Hawaii in the North American Junior and Young Rider Championships She lives in Southern California.