Bagnold, Enid

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.

The story of Velvet Brown, her family, and her horse, The Piebald, and of their determination to enter the world's greatest horse race--The Grand National.

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