Horsehour Podcast

Janet Vokes shares the incredible true story of the life of Dream Alliance to Amy Stevenson. An inspirational true story of when Jan Vokes, the barmaid at a local working men's club in a little mining village in Wales, overhears a regular talking about the time he owned a share of a racehorse, she decides to breed a racehorse of her own and goes into business with the regular and her husband. Together they buy a £300 thoroughbred mare and pair her with an aging stallion, then unite with 23 friends in the village who form a syndicate paying £10 a week to raise the resulting foal. Raised on a slagheap allotment, to the astonishment of the racing elite, Dream Alliance grows up to be an unlikely champion, until one day disaster strikes... Janet's story is told in the 2015 movie Dark Horse, has won numerous awards including Sundance Film Festival Award. For Exclusive Episodes of HorseHour, Subscribe to ACAST+ to hear interviews with Professionals such as Heather Bennett, Jock Paget, Backstage at Badminton Horse