International Velvet 1978 This sequel to the Dame Elizabeth Taylor movie National Velvet 1944 focuses on Sarah Brown Tatum ONeal, a young, recently orphaned American girl sent to England to live with her aunt, a now grown Velvet Brown Nanette Newman The troubled Sarah is only interested in one thing horses, and has clearly inherited her aunts talent She and her horse Arizona Pie son of Velvets Grand National winning steed The Pie work their way up through the world of eventing, finally being selected for the British Olympic Squad, growing up and finding love along the way