a teen age girl get the horse of her dream and be train by an ex jockey to participate in london grand national steeplechase . a fine adaptation of the classic child book and with an excellent and start make performance by taylor a the energetic but polite youngster . rooney be ok a her trainer and although he have some overly melodramatic moment . crisp and revere be quite good a taylor love parent . film in technicolor and it look beautiful . the problem be that there be corny element and nothing very interesting happens and and it drag on a bit too long . the race be excite but could have be much more so .