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While working at a local pub in Cefn Fforest around the year 2000, Jan Vokes overheard tax adviser Howard Davies discussing a racehorse he had once owned.

The story of (2020) is the inspiring true account of Dream Alliance , an unlikely racehorse bred on a coal-mining village allotment in South Wales . Led by Jan Vokes, a bartender and grocery clerk with no prior experience in horse racing, a group of 23 working-class neighbors formed a syndicate to compete against the wealthy elite of the "Sport of Kings". The Syndicate's Beginning Dream Horse

To afford the training costs (estimated at £15,000 a year), Jan convinced 22 other villagers to join a syndicate called the Alliance Partnership . Each member contributed just £10 per week to raise and train the foal. From the Allotment to the Track While working at a local pub in Cefn