The Eighty Dollar Champion Adult Ed. Ages 9 to 13 From Manhattan’s gritty streets to

From Manhattan’s gritty streets to the pastoral beauty of Virginia horse country

nine cowboys raced across a thousand miles of American prairie to the Chicago World's Fair

or maybe she just devoured the Black Stallion books

since I can flip like a switch and rage

a community and neighborhood devastated by poverty and violence

The Eighty Dollar Champion Adult Ed. Ages 9 to 13 From Manhattan’s gritty streets toAuthor: Elizabeth Letts Traces the mid 20th century story of the 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 most expensive thoroughbreds. 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