In 1956, Dutch immigrant Harry deLeyer saw something special in a tired gray plow horse named Snowman at a slaughter auction in Pennsylvania. He paid just \$80 to save him, intending for Snowman to be a gentle school horse for children. But fate had bigger plans. After Harry sold him to a neighbor, Snowman kept astonishing everyone by jumping tall fences to come back home. Seeing this natural gift, deLeyer began training him for show jumping. Within just two years, they went from complete obscurity to winning the nation’s highest honors, including Horse of the Year and Champion at Madison Square Garden in 1958 and 1959. Snowman’s journey—from near death to national glory—earned him the nickname “The Cinderella Horse” and continues to inspire as one of history’s most remarkable true stories of second chances.
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