The Eighty-Dollar Champion by Elizabeth Letts

A lifelong equestrian, as a teen she represented Area VI (California and Hawaii) in the North American Junior and Young Rider Championships. Daniels fellowship, The Charlotte Zolotow Award (honor book) and the Middle East Book Award. Her writing has been recognized for numerous awards, including a John H. She majored in history at Yale, where she studied creative writing with Pulitzer Prize-winner John Hersey.

She is also the author of two novels, Quality of Care and Family Planning, and an award-winning children’s book, The Butter Man. They were the longest of all longshots-and their win was the stuff of legend.ĮLIZABETH LETTS is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Eighty-Dollar Champion, winner of the 2012 Daniel P Lenehan Award for Media Excellence from the United States Equestrian Foundation. 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. Here is the dramatic and inspiring rise to stardom of an unlikely duo. recognized the spark in the eye of the beaten-up horse and bought him for eighty dollars. On Harry’s modest farm on Long Island, he ultimately taught Snowman how to fly. Snowman is the subject of the book, The Eighty Dollar Champion: Snowman, the Horse That Inspired a Nation, by Elizabeth Letts, published by Random House in. The recent Dutch immigrant recognized the spark in the eye of the beaten-up nag and bought him for eighty dollars. 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 Eighty-Dollar Champion, Snowman, The Horse That Inspired A Nation

The Eighty-Dollar Champion by Elizabeth Letts