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where the citations were complete, but reading the articles and looking at newspaper pictures was helpful to me in setting up the general ambience. Also, the remarkable photo collection of Marshall Hawkins, also in the National Sporting Library, helped me with descriptions of people and the atmosphere of horse shows during that time period. Most important to my research were the library’s archives of the horse-related periodical the Chronicle of the Horse, which included first-person reports and results from all of the shows mentioned in this book.

Notes

Prologue: A Night in the Spotlight

1 Outside of Hollywood: for an excellent at the description of the atmosphere horse show in the 1950s, see Kurth Sprague, The National Horse Show: A Centennial History, 1883–1983 (New York: National Horse Show Foundation, 1983).

2 Once, a ragtag band of competitors: John Corry, “Showing Horses on a Shoestring: Many Exhibitors Do Own Stable Work to Save Money,” New York Times, Nov. 11, 1958.

Chapter 1: The Kills

1 The largest horse auction: Rutherford Montgomery, Snowman (New York: Duell, Sloan, and Pearce, 1962). Montgomery describes the atmosphere at the auction in the mid-1950s. Also interview with Phebe Phillips Byrne.

2 For all of their size and strength: M. A. Stoneridge, “How to Evaluate a Horse for Soundness,” in Practical Horsekeeping (New York: Doubleday, 1983).

3 A bunch of horses: Lawrence Scanlan, Secretariat: The Horse That God Built (New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2007), p. 72.

4 A rough man: Montgomery, Snowman, p. 10.

5 It was a cold day: Montgomery, Snowman, p. 3.

6 The horse was thin: “Horse That Jumps: From the Slaughterhouse to the Motion Picture Screen,” Fitchburg Sentinel, December 30, 1959; Harry is quoted as saying that Snowman “was not as undernourished as most horses headed to the slaughterhouse.”

Chapter 2: On the Way Home

1 Now a modern highway: Ann Norton Greene, Horses at Work: Harnessing ower in Industrial America (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2008), p. 51.

2 The venerable Packard automobile company: “Business: Help for Studebaker-Packard,” Time, Apr. 23, 1956.

3 Detroit was poised: “National Affairs: Recession in Detroit,” Time, Apr. 14, 1958.

4 After making his way: David Halberstam, The Fifties (New York: Random House, 1993), pp. 134–37.

5 The area around St. James: See Geoffrey Fleming, Images of America: St. James (Charleston: Arcadia Publishing, 2002), for a good overall description of the history of the Smithtown–St. James area.

6 It was snowing hard: Paul Aurandt, “Snow Man,” in Paul Harvey’s The Rest of the Story (New York: Doubleday, 1977), p. 177.

7 Sure, it was a: Bradley Harris, “Snowman, the Cinderella Horse of Hollandia Farms,” Smithtown News, July 10, 2008, p. 12.

8 “Look, Daddy”: Harriet de Leyer–Strumpf phone interview.

9 Joseph, whose nickname: “$80 Wonder Horse Worth $25,000: Snowman, the Equine Phenomenon, Stars at Children’s Services Horse Show, May 15–17,” Hartford Courant, May 10, 1959.

10 As best Harry could tell: Virginia Lucey, “Saddle and Spur,” Hartford Courant, Oct. 5, 1958.

11 For most horses: M. A. Stoneridge, A Horse of Your Own (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1963) p. 270.

12 Every morning, as soon as: “Snowman Has a Rival, and She’s in His Own Stable,” Port Washington News, Nov. 5, 1959.

Chapter 3: Land of Clover

1 Built for a United States senator: Bradley Harris, “The Knox School Finds a Home in Nissequogue,” Smithtown News, Sept. 25, 2008, p. 10.

2 and its outbuildings including: Preview sales brochure, courtesy of Old Long Island, http://www.oldlongisland.com.

3 Even in an economy: Harris, “Knox School.”

4 The gray-shingled stable: Phebe Phillips Byrne phone interview. (The stable doors are now painted red and white, but during Harry’s era, they were green and white.)

5 When he cracked the whip: Phebe Phillips Byrne interview.

6 The horseshoe-shaped stable: George Allison interview.

7 Around the turn of the twentieth century: Fleming, Images of America.

8 Constructed during boom times: Ibid.

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