Snowman horse

Wednesday Words of Wisdom: “I can recall my astonishment, when I first began to collect books on the techniques of riding, at finding, in books written two or three centuries ago, minute descriptions of ‘discoveries’ that I had made for myself only after a long period of trial and error… the same thing continues to happen regularly – so regularly, in fact, that I wonder if we don’t truly understand only those things which we have already verified for ourselves.” - Bill Steinkraus, "Riding…

A Dutch immigrant, he bought a plow horse for $80 in 1956 and named him Snowman. Two years later the pair won the show-jumping triple crown.

Previously unpublished photo (by George Lynn) of Snowman taken at the Greenway (Madeira School) horse show c 1960

By Emily Riden If Harry de Leyer had arrived on time to a Pennsylvania horse auction on a snowy day in February, 1956 there would likely be no great story to tell, but as fate would have it, Harry was running late. When Harry, a Dutch immigrant and Long Island horse trainer, did arrive

Snowman - Ribbons on his stall. There is a part in the book that compare the stalls at the horse shows Snowman and the other horses. It looks like by the end of the show Snowman did some decorating of his own! :)

Movie review of “Harry & Snowman”: This documentary features a horse that melts the heart.

Michelle Ogrizek Lehner, remember how we always made a snow horse to sit on? Never thought about the rider.

(25 pieces jigsaw puzzle) Grey Horse with Snowman ❤️ by Grigorita Ko

Harry & Snowman is the Cinderella story of Dutch immigrant Harry deLeyer and his friendship with Snowman, an Amish plow horse he rescued off a truck bound for the glue factory. Within 2 years they would win the Triple Crown of show jumping, beating the nation's blue bloods and traveling the world as media darlings. Their meeting at a horse auction began a friendship that would last a lifetime.

Snowman