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2 Called “coupon clippers”: Andrew Beveridge, “The Idle Rich,” Gotham Gazette, Nov. 2006.
3 These all-white, all-Protestant: Fussell, Class, pp. 28–30.
4 A mix of amateurs and professionals: Rust, Renegade Champion, p. 142.
5 The professionals relied on: “Horse Showing Is a Grim Business,” Palm Beach Post, Nov. 17, 1962.
6 In an era when: Halberstam, The Fifties, pp. 692–98 and 623–25.
7 A contemporary article: Milton Bracker, “Philadelphia Society, Changing but Changeless,” New York Times, Jan. 14, 1957.
8 Devon’s show grounds: “History,” Devon Horse Show, http://www.thedevonhorseshow.org/about-history.php.
9 The Times revealed: Bracker, “Philadelphia Society.”
10 straw boaters: Susan Wilmerding, personal communication, Nov. 16, 2010.
11 Back in St. James: “$80 Wonder Horse,” Hartford Courant, May 10, 1959.
12 And Snowman, too: Phebe Phillips Byrne interview.
13 The only taste: “Devon,” The Chronicle of the Horse, June 14, 1958.
14 The first quarter of 1958: “The Recession of 1958,” www.Time.com, Oct. 15, 2008.
15 The Kentucky Derby: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kentucky_Derby.
16 Pioneers in a variety of sports: Halberstam, The Fifties, pp. 691–97.
17 Then in January: “Roy Campanella Continues to Gain; Injured Catcher Gets Some Feeling Back in Body, but Legs Still Paralyzed,” New York Times, Jan. 31, 1958.
18 In front of Andante’s stall: Montgomery, Snowman, p. 72.
19 Everyone knew the owner: “Business,” Time, Dec. 30, 1957.
20 Andante’s rider: “Dave T. Kelley,” National Show Jumping Hall of Fame, http://www.showjumpinghalloffame.net/.
21 Most people thought he: “Green Is Injured in Horse Show Test,” New York Times, Sept. 16, 1955.
22 At the big shows: “Horse Showing Is a Grim Business,” Palm Beach Post, Nov. 17, 1962.
23 The de Leyers did everything: Montgomery, Snowman, p. 16.
24 Part of a generation: Harriet de Leyer–Strumpf phone interview.
25 When all of the barn: Montgomery, Snowman, p. 56.
26 Harry had brought four: “Sands Point,” Chronicle of the Horse, June 22, 1958.
27 The show, founded: Harry V. Forgeron, “Town Puts Heart in Its Horse Show, Port Washington Lions Find Willing Hands for Event That Built Ballfield,” New York Times, May 15, 1960.
28 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.
29 For all of their size and strength: M. A. Stoneridge, “How to Evaluate a Horse for Soundness,” in Practical Horsekeeping (New York: Doubleday, 1983).
30 A bunch of horses: Lawrence Scanlan, Secretariat: The Horse That God Built (New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2007), p. 72.
31 A rough man: Montgomery, Snowman, p. 10.
32 It was a cold day: Montgomery, Snowman, p. 3.
33 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 15: New Challenges
1 The vast television audience: Robert Lyon, On Any Given Sunday: A Life of Bert Bell (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2010), pp. 290–92.
2 The rain had deterred: “Fairfield County Hunt,” Chronicle of the Horse, July 11, 1958, p. 20.
3 While the footing: Ibid.
4 On the last day: Ibid.
5 Right from the start: Ibid.
6 There was still another: Ibid.
7 After Fairfield, horse show: Montgomery, Snowman, p. 84.
Chapter 16: The Things That Really Matter
1 That morning, Harry put: “Smithtown,” Chronicle of the Horse, Sept. 12, 1958, p. 19.
2 Calling long-distance: Montgomery, Snowman, p. 96.
Chapter 17: Piping Rock
1 the country’s “elegantsia”: John Lahr, “King Cole,” New Yorker, July 12, 2004, http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2004/07/12/040712crat_atlarge.
2 It was in the woods: Ibid.
3 Lida Fleitmann: “Miss Lida Fleitmann, Horsewoman, to Wed,” New York Times, Feb. 1, 1922.
4 Designed in 1913, the club: “Piping Rock’s Millionaire’s Colony Opens New Club,” New York