The Forgotten Horseman: A Son's Weekend Memoir

10-year-old Lee Downing knew his Dad was a great man, his hero and one of the finest American Saddlebred horse trainers around, he had heard people say it all the time, but finally, this was his chance to experience it for himself. A Forgotten Horseman: A Son’s Weekend Memoir, is author Lee E. Downing’s recollection of a dramatic weekend in Youngstown, Ohio during an American Saddlebred Horseshow. A weekend filled with horses, hard work, competition, excitement, pride, prejudice, life lessons, and of course, his father’s extraordinary fraternity of the black horseman that Lee affectionately referred to as the Mighty Middletown Horsemen.