National Velvet is the story of a horse-crazy fourteen-year-old girl, Velvet Brown, who rides her horse, Pi, to win Britain’s Grand National steeplechase.

The 1935 novel of the same name by Enid Bagnold (1889 – 1991) was successfully adapted to film in 1944 and  featured the young Elizabeth Taylor in her first leading role.

Assisted by Mi, her father’s hired hand, Velvet plots to get the horse ready for what’s considered “the greatest race in the world,” praying to become “the best rider in England,” not for the money but for the glory of the horse she loves so dearly. Read More→