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The race is starting, it's a foggy day. There's a struggle going on at Becher's; a horse has fallen and was being got out with ropes. Mi's legs turn to water. He runs to the front to see what is happening. The horse that has fallen is a black horse. There is a shout and another horse falls down with a rider riding on it. Two more horses come back out of the mist, one riderless. Nineteen horses has streamed down to the Canal Turn, and suddenly, at the boundary, four horses appear beyond Valentine's, and among them, fourth is the Piebald without Velvet. 

Mi is looking for Velvet everywhere but he cannot find her. The Associated Press in New York men sends a message to every place in Liverpool that the Piebald wins the race and Mi is taking care of him at Aintree. Velvet is now at Liverpool Central Hospital, they found her unconscious. When she wakes up, doctors ask her some questions, but she refuses to reveal her identity. She just tell them that she falls down the horse while riding and unconscious.

Soon, the news spread everywhere that a girl has won the Grand National but no one knows her name except Mi, the nurse is taking care of her. The resident M.O comes to the hospital to see Velvet. He asks questions about her and the Piebald. But she doesn't want tell her name to him and doctors but they can guess that she is about fourteen to sixteen years old. At home, Mr and Mrs Brown recognizes their daughter on the TV. The reporters tell them that she is the Liverpool Central Hospital, they also said that she slipped off her horse and fainted. They immediately get to Liverpool and take her home, Mi is at home waiting for her. The Piebald has been disqualified but they'll dare to drop them him out altogether. 

The next morning, the Browns wake up as usual, they find out that there's a crowd of people, including the reporters waiting to see Velvet. But the Browns don't want to meet them. Some people even send gifts to her. Some guys wants to be her boyfriend and propose her, she's now popular at school. Tomorrow Velvet and Mi are going to meet the National Hunt Committee. In an upper room in 15 Cavendish Square, round a board table, the board has assembled. They are summarized what happened at the Grand National. Then they call Velvet upstairs, they ask her a few questions about herself, the Piebald and family. One of them know Mrs. Brown as a swimmer of the Channel. She said that Mi helped her everything. She also said that she didn't want to join the Grand National, it was just for fun because she saw Piebald jump lovely so she decided to make him famous and this is Mi idea. They ask her to call Mi. They ask him some questions but finally he refuses to take the prize money and the cup because he likes to stay poor and help the Brown. From now on, people from every where in Europe and America call her National Velvet.

Events in the story

Velvet won the raffle ticket for a piebald horse

The old man gave her five horses before he dies because she told her that she wants to be a famous horse rider

Velvet won the Grand National Race

Summary 3

At the end, Velvet doesn't win that jumping game because she cares about piebald's health. Then they leaves the Ring and rest for the next competition. Then, the Voice announces for Event Number Five. Her rivals are two livery-stable men from Worthing, a grizzled woman with short hair and a hanging underlip, and a young man in checks on a hired horse with poverty checks. Everyone likes Sir Pericles horse. Velvet eliminates all the competitors left the little boy and a fat little man with a big horse's stable and comes Flora Bank  rode on a bay horse like a racer, lean and powerful and fully sixteen hands. But Velvet manages to beat them all and wins thirty shillings. At these chapters, they often mention the word "Weatherby", it's a gateway to a great park.

After she had given Mi the forty shillings, she had put three pounds in the Post Office Savings Bank. But Mr. Brown, Please with the performance at the gymkhana, had given her five shillings. She had wanted to bank this too but there is outcry among the sisters. One day, Velvet meets Mr. Ede. He saw piebald's performance at the competition. Velvet writes a letter to a the Weatherby (I think because the story didn't tell who she sent the letter to) to ask him about the Rules of entering for the Grand National Race. September passed and October came. Velvet by now had grown bolder. She no longer rose in dawn to fetch the piebald to the mushroom valley but take him in the red-haired autumn under cold afternoon moons of October  on dew-drenched grass. He can now jump five foot high.

 Now   Mi and Velvet are deciding to change a new name for piebald so when she wins the Grand National Race they will record his name for history. But in the end, they just call him The Piebald because they can't think a better name to call him. A reply from the Weatherby said that they needed a hundreds pound and money for a horsebox to enter the Grand National Race but they don't have enough money. So they asked for Mrs. Brown's saving money and she accepts but they won't tell Mr. Brown because he may disagree.

 On the first Monday in January Mi takes the whole entry money of a hundred pounds in gold sovereigns in a bag up to London. He goes to Mssrs. Weatherby in Cavendish Square. At first, they need only ten pounds but then they decide to take his one hundreds pounds and give him changes back, ask him some questions about the horse and the competitor, it takes a lot of time and Mi is getting impatient and inconvenience. Finally, they give him a receipt. Day after day, The Piebald becomes stronger and stronger. The National Grand Race is in Liverpool. Velvet and Mi save money and go there by taxi. 

Summary 2

One night, Velvet cannot sleep, she walks out of the house and sees an old gentleman dressing black. He asks her how did she come here. She tells him that she comes here by a pony. He also asks her that did she like ponies or not. She knocks her head and said that she had only one pony, and it's old. Then, he dragged her to his stables, he said that he had a lot of horses. She knew one of his horses' name. It's called Sir Pericles. Her old pony's name is Miss Ada. She said that she dreamed about horses every night when she's sleeping. She also said that she dreams to be a famous horse rider and wins a lot of trophies. 

The old man has five horses in his stables. Velvet wants to have a lot of horses to ride every day. The first grey mare had the snowy grey coat of the brink of age. The second one is a small pony, slim and strong, like a miniature horse. The other three are hunters and carriage horses and cart horses. He takes out a piece of paper and writes down her name. Velvet and his gardener sign at the paper. She takes the paper. At four o'clock in the morning, Mally announces that Velvet has won a piebald horse, but Mr. Cellini is dead. In the morning, Velvet waits for the horses to be delivered. When they comes, many people comes and watch. The horses' names are Sir Pericles, Angelina, Fancy and George.

When the horses had been with the Browns a month, they had lost flesh a little in the dry, sea-blown field, and were very slightly out of condition. Mi knew it, but didn't tell Velvet. Edwina and Velvet usually ride Sir. Pericles and Mrs. James. At night, they don't keep Mr. Pericles and Mrs. James because it'll be murder. So they put them in a stable. Then they check their schedule and "Novices jumping" is coming soon this week, they plan to take piebald because it can jump    
to three foot six but they don't have enough money join so Meredith suggests Velvet to sell Miss Ada but Velvet doesn't allow her. 

In the end, Velvet rides Sir. Pericles to the Tablet Gully alone. She ties him at the gate and free piebald. It runs away and then disappears. But Mally found him went down to the see as usual, and they decided not to tell their father. After dinner, they put piebald inside the loose-box. Velvet stays their to look after him, she gives him apple to eat. At midnight, Mi comes out and looks after piebald and Velvet goes to sleep. At the competition, the Browns loses five shillings because they didn't train their horses but the crowns impress with piebald after he breaks the gate and jumps over a three foot six wall. But the judge said that she didn't complete the competition yet.

Summary 1

 Velvet Brown is a 14 years old girl live with her parents named Mr and Mrs Brown at Hullock. The family is not rich, her father own a shop and a slaughterhouse, where he kills farm animals. Her mother does the books and cooks the liver, kidneys and sheep's heads that remain after the steak is sold, she was also a swimmer for Channel. She also lives with her three sister.

 Edwina, Malvolia, and Meredith, they are all exactly alike, like golden greyhounds. Their golden hair was sleek, their fine faces like antelopes, their shoulders still steady like Zulu women carrying water, and their bodies beneath the shoulders ripple with they move. They were seventeen, sixteen, and fifteen so Velvet is the youngest one in the family. Donald, a four years old boy lives with her family always sleep earlier than everyone else. Mi Taylor, who helps in the slaughterhouse, lives in a box stall with a rotting floor beside the old mare that the girls ride when they get up at dawn to deliver meat, he's also Velvet good friend.

 One night, Velvet follows her mother to the shop downtown. There, they see a horse of someone escaping and running around the town, drawing attentions of some people. With a striking of hoofs, sparks flying on the flints, a piebald horse, naked of leather, wild and alone, slid almost to his haunches and stood stock-still, shaking and panting. It stares at Mrs Brown and gallops up the street toward Hullock. 

 Later, they found out that the horse belongs to Farmer Ede. Edwina has a dream that her mother hit by the piebald horse, but Mrs Brown returns of safely. In the morning, everyone in the house talks about the piebald's horse.

National Velvet