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.
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 Dream Horse
Jan's husband, Brian, found a temperamental mare named Rewbell that was being sold for £1,000. Due to the horse's poor temperament and old barbed-wire injuries, they negotiated the price down to just £350 . While working at a local pub in Cefn