The Eighty-Dollar Champion

The Eighty-Dollar Champion The True Story of a Horse, a Man, and an Unstoppable Dream

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Publisher's Synopsis

On a bleak winter afternoon, Harry de Leyer first saw the horse he would name Snowman between the slats of a rickety truck bound for the slaughterhouse. Noting a spark in the horse's eye, the Dutch immigrant bought the beaten-up animal for only eighty dollars and took him to the family's modest farm on Long Island. Though Snowman thrived in his new home, Harry needed money. Reluctantly, he sold Snowman to another farm a few miles down the road. But the shaggy horse had other ideas. 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. Snowman then began his extraordinary path to stardom as Harry trained him to show jump, taking Snowman all the way to the very top of the sport.

Book information

ISBN: 9780593127124
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Imprint: Delacorte Press
Pub date:
Edition: First edition
DEWEY: [Fic]
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 252 , 16 of plates
Weight: 410g
Height: 146mm
Width: 216mm
Spine width: 30mm