Eighty Dollar Champion, 9781472110916
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Eighty dollars, one horse, and an impossible dream to fly.

Eighty Dollar Champion

snowman, the horse that inspired a nation

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  • Paperback

    416 pages

  • Release Date

    14 May 2014

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Summary

Snowman: The Eighty Dollar Champion

Harry de Leyer, a recent Dutch immigrant, spotted a spark in a beaten-up nag on its way to the slaughterhouse. He bought the horse for eighty dollars and named him Snowman.

On Harry’s humble Long Island farm, he taught Snowman how to fly. Together, this unlikely duo began a dramatic and inspiring rise to stardom in the world of show jumping.

Against extraordinary odds and some of the most expensive thoroughbreds, they climbed to th…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781472110916
ISBN-10:1472110919
Series:Tom Thorne Novels
Author:Elizabeth Letts
Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
Imprint:Constable
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:416
Release Date:14 May 2014
Weight:300g
Dimensions:197mm x 130mm x 33mm
About The Author

Elizabeth Letts

Elizabeth Letts is the award- winning author of two novels, Quality of Care and Family Planning, and one children’s book, The Butter Man. Quality of Care was a Literary Guild, Doubleday Book Club, and Books-A-Million Book Club selection. An equestrian from childhood, Letts represented California as a junior equestrian, and was runner- up in the California Horse and Rider of the Year competition. She currently lives with her husband and four children in Baltimore, Maryland.

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