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The Eighty-dollar Champion
  • Author : Elizabeth Letts
  • Release Date : 27 June 2022
  • Publisher : Random House Digital, Inc.
  • Genre : History
  • Pages : 329
  • ISBN 13 : 9780345521095
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Book excerpt: Traces the story of a champion equine jumper and the Dutch farmer who rescued him from the slaughterhouse, recounting how the farmer discovered Snowman's jumping talents and trained him to compete against the world's thoroughbreds.

The Eighty dollar Champion

The Eighty dollar Champion

Author : Elizabeth Letts
Publisher : Random House Digital, Inc.
Genre : History
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Traces the story of a champion equine jumper and the Dutch farmer who rescued him from the slaughterhouse, recounting how the farmer discovered Snowman's jumping talents and trained him to compete against the world's thoroughbreds....

The Eighty Dollar Champion

The Eighty Dollar Champion

Author : Elizabeth Letts
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Genre : Nature
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • 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 Harry de Leyer first saw the horse he would name Snowman on a truck bound for the slaughterhouse. The ...

The Eighty Dollar Champion

The Eighty Dollar Champion

Author : Elizabeth Letts
Publisher : Hachette UK
Genre : Sports & Recreation
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Harry de Leyer first saw the horse he would name Snowman on a truck bound for the slaughterhouse. The recent Dutch immigrant recognized the spark in the eye of the beaten-up nag and bought him for eighty dollars. On Harry's modest farm on Long Island, he ultimately taught Snowman how ...

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Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Publisher : Unknown
Genre : Fiction
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Publisher : Nal Accent
Genre : Family & Relationships
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A dedicated obstetrician, Clara Raymond comes face to face with her childhood friend, Lydia Benson, who had once saved Clara's life following a horseback-riding accident, a brief reunion that ends in tragedy and sends Clara on an odyssey back to her California past and to a rediscovery of the meaning ...

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Publisher : Charlesbridge
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Genre : Nature
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Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
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A twist of fate brings a man and horse together in this remarkable true story now available in a new version adapted by the author of the Marguerite Henry’s Ponies of Chincoteague series. Snowman, an Amish plow horse, was bound for the meat market when Harry deLeyer, a Long ...

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Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
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At first an unruly foal, Gunner grows into a smart and beautiful show horse, whose troublemaking ways hide a devotion to his family that shines through, until disaster strikes in the form of Hurricane Katrina....

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Publisher : Delacorte Press
Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
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American soldiers, aided by an Austrian colonel who was both an Olympian and a trainer of Lipizzaners, attempt to kidnap horses that had been taken by Nazis "for the glorification of the Third Reich" and smuggle them to safety....

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Genre : History
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In the bestselling tradition of the The Eighty-Dollar Champion, the propulsive, inspiring Cinderella story of Stymie, an unwanted Thoroughbred, and Hirsch Jacobs, the once dirt-poor trainer who bought the colt on the cheap and molded him into the most popular horse of his time and the richest racehorse the world ...