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From pulling pints to Welsh Grand National glory: Barmaid who raised champion racehorse

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Hollywood fairytale.A barmaid with no horse racing ­experience raising a Welsh Grand National champion with the help of a £10-a-week village syndicate.But this amazing story is all true and being told in the film Dream Horse, which is out on Friday and stars Hollywood favourite Toni Collette, 48, as Jan Vokes.Jan went from pulling pints behind the bar at the local working men’s club to breeding thoroughbred Dream Alliance on the allotments of a small mining village in the south Wales ­valleys, eventually winning one of ­racing’s most prestigious prizes.As Aussie actress Toni says: “Dream Horse is the most inspirational story – you can’t help but get high on the positivity of it.“I just feel so proud to have played someone like her.

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