National Velvet Author:Enid Bagnold Velvet Brown was fourteen, skinny, intense--and crazy about horses. The Piebald was part carthorse, part Arab--and a natural jumper. — As a team, they were to make racing history, for Velvet had faith in the heart and destiny of the Pie. She won him in a village lottery, and began a glorious adventure that would take her all the way to the Grand... more » National, the greatest steeplechase in the world.« less