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Dream Horse

- The Incredible True Story of Dream Alliance – the Allotment Horse who Became a Champion
Af: Janet Vokes Engelsk Paperback

Dream Horse

- The Incredible True Story of Dream Alliance – the Allotment Horse who Became a Champion
Af: Janet Vokes Engelsk Paperback
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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 £350, paired her up with a pedigree stallion and helped to create a syndicate of twenty-three friends from the village – each paying £10 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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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 £350, paired her up with a pedigree stallion and helped to create a syndicate of twenty-three friends from the village – each paying £10 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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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 320
ISBN-13: 9781509886043
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 1509886044
Kategori: South Wales
Udg. Dato: 10 jun 2021
Længde: 24mm
Bredde: 195mm
Højde: 130mm
Forlag: Pan Macmillan
Oplagsdato: 10 jun 2021
Forfatter(e): Janet Vokes
Forfatter(e) Janet Vokes

Kategori South Wales

ISBN-13 9781509886043

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 320

Udgave

Længde 24mm

Bredde 195mm

Højde 130mm

Udg. Dato 10 jun 2021

Oplagsdato 10 jun 2021

Forlag Pan Macmillan

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