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![]() ![]() They were the longest of all longshots-and their win was the stuff of legend. It’s the story of yet another unlikely superstar of the showjumping world, and of the man who believed that a plowhorse could jump the moon. Their story captured the heart of Cold War–era America-a story of unstoppable hope, inconceivable dreams, and the chance to have it all. We’re about to experience that in the USA with the imminent release of the biography Snowman, The Eighty Dollar Champion by Elizabeth Letts, which I hope will be a big success. 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. 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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