INTRO TO SHOW JUMPING BY SARAH ASWELL SADDLE UP SportsZone An Imprint of Abdo Publishing abdopublishing com
1 THE SKILLS AND THRILLS OF SHOW JUMPING In 1956 a man named Harry de Leyer went to a horse auction He saw a dirty skinny plow horse headed to the slaughterhouse and felt a connection to the animal De Leyer saved the horse by buying him for just 80 De Leyer named the horse Snowman and sold him But the horse kept escaping and returning to de Leyer's farm To get there he had to jump many tall fences De Leyer then
De Leyer originally bought Snowman to use as a children's school horse before he sold him
