Dream horse
Vokes, Janet2019
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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. This is the extraordinary story of a woman who defied the snobbery of the racing world to breed a champion.
Main title:
Dream horse / Janet Vokes with Jeff Hudson.
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Imprint:
London : Macmillan, 2019.
Collation:
303 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 23 cm
ISBN:
9781509886036 (hbk)
Dewey class:
798.4'0092B VOK798.40092B/VOK
Language:
English
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BRN:
2645462
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