The National Velvet

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 fourteen-year-old English girl wins a horse in a raffle, trains it, and rides it in the Grand National steeplechase.