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Dream Horse (Paperback)
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Dream Horse (Paperback)
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Loot Price R251
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The moving true story of an ordinary Welsh woman who dreamed of
breeding a race horse, and Dream Alliance, who defied the odds to
become a champion and brought a community together. Janet Vokes was
working behind the bar in her local working men's club in the small
Welsh mining community of Cefn Fforest when she fixed upon the idea
of breeding a racehorse. She'd always loved animals, having dabbled
in showing whippets and racing pigeons, and her husband Brian used
to be a rag and bone man with a horse of his own. Why shouldn't a
working-class horse take on the high flyers in the rarified world
of racing? She bought a mare for GBP350, paired her up with a
pedigree stallion and helped to create a syndicate of twenty-three
friends from the village - each paying GBP10 a week - to raise the
resulting foal, Dream Alliance. He may have grown up on an
allotment but Dream Alliance had star quality, beating all the odds
to become a winner at a number of world-class racetracks. Then a
terrible injury to his leg threatened not just his career but his
life. Refusing to have him put down, the syndicate paid for
experimental surgery and Dream Alliance went on to not only make a
full recovery but win the Welsh Grand National. Funny and charming,
Dream Horse by Janet Vokes is the extraordinary story of a woman
who defied the snobbery of the racing world to breed a champion,
and a remarkable horse who brought a community together.
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