Dorothy Ours

The youngest jockey, the smallest horse, and an unconventional heiress who disliked publicizing herself. Together, near Liverpool, England, they made a leap of faith on a spring day in 1938: overriding the jockey's father, trusting the boy and the horse that the British nicknamed the 'American pony' to handle a race course that newspapers called 'Suicide Lane.' There, Battleship might become the first American racer to win England's monumental, century-old...