The Eighty-Dollar Champion: Snowman, the Horse That Inspired a Nation by Elizabeth Letts
“Riding instructor Harry DeLeyer was looking for some inexpensive mounts for his students when he spotted the broken-down plow horse already loaded onto the knacker’struck. Despite the horse’s scars and blemishes, Harry liked the calm confidencethat the horse exhibited, and, against his better judgement, paid out $80 to takethe big white horse home. Snowman, as the …