They were the longest of all longshots-and their win was the stuff of legend.
Their story captured the heart of Cold War–era America-a story of unstoppable hope, inconceivable dreams, and the chance to have it all. 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. The Eighty-Dollar Champion: Snowman, the Horse That Inspired a Nation Elizabeth Letts 4.22 12,551 ratings1,749 reviews Want to Read Kindle 12.99 Rate this book 1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER November 1958: the National Horse Show at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Quality of Care was a Literary Guild, Doubleday Book Club, and Books-A-Million Book Club selection. Here is the dramatic and inspiring rise to stardom of an unlikely duo. Elizabeth Letts is the award-winning author of two novels, Quality of Care and Family Planning, and one childrens book, The Butter Man. On Harry’s modest farm on Long Island, he ultimately taught Snowman how to fly. The recent Dutch immigrant recognized the spark in the eye of the beaten-up nag and bought him for eighty dollars. Harry de Leyer first saw the horse he would name Snowman on a truck bound for the slaughterhouse.
The dramatic and inspiring story of a man and his horse, an unlikely duo whose rise to stardom in the sport of show jumping captivated the nation Winner of the Daniel P Lenehan Award for Media Excellence from the United States Equestrian Foundation.
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