Lecture: “The Eighty Dollar Champion: A Horse, a Man, and the Dream That Inspired a Nation,” Elizabeth Letts and Harry de Leyer, Friday, August 27, 2 p.m., National Sporting Library & Museum, 102 The Plains Rd., Middleburg, Va. 20117, http://www.nsl.org/eletts.html Free, RSVP to Elizabeth Tobey, 540-687-6542 x 11 or etobey@nsl.org. Author Elizabeth Letts, of Chadds