Book Signing: Dorothy Ours author of "Battleship" - 08/02/2013

"Battleship: A Daring Heiress, a Teenage Jockey, and America's Horse"

Meet Dorothy Ours author of "Battleship:  A Daring Heiress, a Teenage Jockey, and America's Horse".  Dorothy will be in the Museum lobby to sign copies of her newest book, "Battleship" and also "Man o'War:  A Horse Like Lightening"  Copies will be available for purchase in the NMR gift shop.

The youngest jockey, the smallest horse, and an American heiress. Together, near Liverpool, England, they made a leap of faith on a spring day in 1938: overriding the teenage 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.” As a result, Battleship became the first American horse to win England’s monumental, century-old Grand National steeplechase—the smallest National winner ever. At age seventeen, British jockey Bruce Hobbs became the race's youngest winner.