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Dutch horse trainer (1927–2021)

Harry E.deLeyer (September 21, 1927 – June 25, 2021) is most famous for rescuing an old plow horse from the slaughterhouse, and a few years later winning national shows with that same horse, which became the most famous horse in America in the 1950s.

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The horse, Snowman, was eventually inducted into United States Show Jumping Hall of Fame in 1992.

Early life in Holland

Harry deLeyer (pronounced deh-LAY-er) was born in Sint-Oedenrode, Netherlands in 1927.^[1] His work experience was primarily on the family farm.

DeLeyer learned to ride as a child; by 7 he was competing, eventually making it to the Dutch junior national team.

When the Germans invaded the Netherlands in May 1940, his father turned their farm into a way station for the resistance, hiding Jews and downed Allied pilots in a secret cellar that he dug out next to a barn and disguised under a manure pile.

Harry deLeyer was part of the underground during W