#Mickey Rooney

March 30, 1970. Racing champion Secretariat was born. After Citation in 1948, Secretariat became the first U.S. Triple Crown winner in 25 years and became the stuff of legend. New York Post columnist Larry Merchant said: "Secretariat is the kind of Big Horse that makes grown men weep, even when they are flint-hearted bettors, even when he goes off…

With the movie industry booming and a host of new horse racing tracks opening, there was only one place to be seen in 1930s California: the races.The likes of Fred Astaire, Barbara Stanwyck and Gregory Peck were all trackside regulars during Hollywood's golden age. And as well as turning racetracks into some of the country's most glamorous social…

Starring Mickey Rooney and Elizabeth Taylor, this 1944 film tells the story of a young girl from a small town in England who wins a special gelding in a raffle and decides to take him all the way to the famed Grand National steeplechase. Based on the 1935 novel of the same name by Enid Bagnold, National Velvet is a heartwarming and bittersweet…