Enid Bagnold

In mid-twentieth-century England, fourteen-year-old Velvet Brown, determined to turn the unruly horse she wins in a raffle into a champion, learns that she needs more than hard work and dedication to achieve her goal of riding her horse in the Grand National steeplechase.

A determined girl and boy and a spirited thoroughbred horse join forces to attain the seemingly impossible dream of winning the Grand National Steeplechase.

Lassie come home: Every day, Lassie waits for Joe outside school ... until she's sold by Joe's impoverished family. An 11-year-old Elizabeth Taylor helps Lassie escape kennel captivity. National Velvet: Elizabeth Taylor plays Velvet Brown, who trains a horse she won in a raffle and poses as a boy to ride in the Grand National Steeplechase.