National Velvet 1944 Mi Taylor Mickey Rooney was a young wanderer and opportunist whose father had given him all the roads in the Kingdom to travel One of the roads, and a notation in his fathers journal, leads him to the quiet English countryside home of the Brown family The youngest daughter, Velvet Dame Elizabeth Taylor, has a passion for horses and when she wins the spirited steed Pie in a town lottery, Mi is encouraged to train the horse for the Grand National Englands greatest racing event