"(HELICOPTER WHIRS)" "MAN:" "The memories at the moment are just as clear as they were then." "(HORSE SNORTS)" "(HORSE BLOWS THROUGH NOSE)" "The only points I can't remember are the moments of either elation or fear." "(GALLOPING HOOFBEATS)" "Dream took us to places you couldn't even imagine." "(RACING COM IVIENTARY)" "There we were, going to Aintree, for probably the greatest raoe on the planet." "We actually broke the mould." "We actually Went there and did it and did it for a tenner a week." "It's elation when you can do something, particularly when no-one gives you a chance." "(HORSES GALLOP)" " (DOG BARKS) - (swans TWEET)" "WOMAN:" "We were a tight-knit community at one time, as most mining communities are." "The majority of people in the village were either in the pit or connected to the coal industry." "There was Bargoecl Colliery, there was Elliot's town, there was Britannia, there was Oakdale, and, one by one, they've closed dovvn." "I was a barmaid at the working men's club on Bedvvellty Road." "I used to vvork for the Old Time Dancing so I hadn't been in the bar that much." "It was a Thursday." "Jan was Working, bar manager." "I didn't know her by name, even, and she'd been there a few months." "And I listened to him a fevv times in the bar, on about some racehorse." "You know, theyd had a racehorse and what-have-you." "And I kept listening and listening to him on about this horse." "And I said to the steward, "Who's that?" and he said, "Oh, that's Howard," he said." ""They had a racehorse," he saw, "a few of 'em, a few years age," he sad," ""but they lost a lot of money," he said." "So, I thought about it, and I got my head around it, done a little bit of research, and I thought, "I like the sound of that."" "So, I ordered the drinks." "Then she paused and said to me, "You're Howard,"" "and I said, um..."l am,"" "and she said, "I'm gonna breed a racehorse."" "So, I picked the pints up and said, "Good luck," and sat dovvn." " (CAR ALARM BLARES) - (DOG BARKS)" "MAN:" "Well, Jan had come home from the club, oh, about 12 o'clock in the night." "She said, "I Want you to buy me a thoroughbred mare."" "I said, "What for?" She said, "I'm gonna breed a racehorse."" "I said, "Don't talk bloody stupid!" Well, you know, and she said, "I am."" "JAN: "Shut up, you silly bugger," he said." ""You can't breed a bloody racehorse."" "I said, "Yes, we can." "We'll, you know..."" "And I was telling him then how l-loward..." "how they'd had this horse." "I omitted to tell him that they'd lost a lot of money, mind." "WOMAN:" "Howard came home one night and said, "Oh, I've just met someone." ""It's the barmaid at the pub," ""um...who's asked me about, er...breeding horses," ""and she said, 'Oh, you've run a syndicate before." "Could you help me outwith it?" "' "" "HOWARD:" "When I did it in the previous decade," "I had the good fortune to fall upon a trainer who Wanted tax advice, and, as I'm a tax adviser, um..." "I had an opportunity, and although the horse vvon a couple of races, in terms of finances, it was pretty disastrous." "There was about £5,000 of debt to sort out at the end, and, er..." "Hov\/ard said, "Well, vve Won't do that again,"" "and I said, "You're right, vve certainly Won't be doing that again."" "I was not pleased." "(CROWD CHEERS)" "(HORSE WHINNIES)" " (CROWD CHEERS) - (GLASSES CLINK)" "HOWARD:" "It's purely the simple fact that racing itself is an exclusive, expensive hobby." "(CROWD CHEERS)" "The hardest part is, you don't know Where to start." "I mean, you could spend, as the Maktoums have spent, billions, literally billions, on trying to vvin the Derby, and failed." "(CROWD GASPS)" "And so, for us to even contemplate starting from scratch, buying a brood mare and then finding a stallion, well, it was an impossible ask." "(HORSE SNORTS)" "You don't, er...doubt Janet." "(CHUCKLES)" "No, when she says she's gonna do summat, she'll do it, and that's hovv it all started." "Janet's dream, it was." "(swans TWEET)" "JAN:" "When I was a very young child, my father used to breed show budgerigars." "It was fascinating, even at that young age, to see all the different colours, you knovv, and different things that you could get out of..." "He would be breeding for a deeper chest or a longer tail, and you'd see hovv many different crosses he made." "It sticks with you." "I know it sounds daft, but it sticks with you from a young age." "Then we went on to racing pigeons and I come out on my first race and vvon a Welsh national." "As I got older, I bred whippets." "MAN: ...these four beautiful specimens..." "JAN:" "We showed everywhere, from Scotland clown to Land's Encl." "Rosettes, cups, Wonderful fun with the whippets." "I knew nothing whatsoever about racing as such, but I did know that, um..." "these sort of people, these vvell-to-do sort of people, liked to keep the, er..." "sports to themselves." "They liked to keep us commoners out, I think." "(swans TWEET)" "(# JS BACH:" "Air On A c;" "String)" "WOMAN:" "And here vve have Top Bill, the 20th-century product of 250 years' breeding of the thoroughbred horse." "At 11 years old, I think Top Bill makes impact by his great presence, allied to his substance and elegance." "JAN:" "They are horses that are bred, generation after generation of big winners and they have cost millions, and, um working class like us could never afford to get "mm the sport the same way as they do." "(HORSE SNORTS)" "But I couldn't see any reason why it couldn't be done." "Just need something that's cheap and cheerful, I thought." "BRIAN:" "I was like everyone else, didn't think that she could do it, anyhow, and phoned these people who vve knew in Llandudno, and asked them if they knew anyone who had a thoroughbred mare for sale," "and they put us on to this boy in Llanelli." "(SOMEONE CLICKS TONGUE)" "(DOG BARKS)" "JAN:" "There was a young lad." "He had a mare." "Her name was Revvbell and he Wanted £1 ,0O0 for her." "BRIAN:" "I said, "Oh, this is..." "Well, you know What this is," I said." "She got...she had a fevv scars on her legs, where he had run into a fence or summat with her." ""So, keep your trap shut," lsaid, "and I'll do the talking."" "I said, "Look at her legs all covered in scars," I said." ""She's not worth £11,000."" "So, he said, "Well, whafll you give me?" I said, "I'll give you £300."" " (HORSE SNORTS)" " He said, "All right, then."" "Well, I'd Walk to Timbuktu if I thought I was gonna have a ride on a horse." "That's hovv me and Janet met, through the horses." "I was in college at the time, and I'd get off the bus in the main street in Blackvvood, and he'd be there vvith the horse and cart and he used to say, "Come on, get oh."" "BRIAN:" "I used to rag-and-bone for a couple of bob." "So, I used to Wear an old bowler hat, Wellies and a donkey coat with the sleeves cutout, and string." "Looked like bloody Steptoe." "And as soon as I got on, he would start shouting, "Rag and bone!"" "Oh, he was a nightmare, he was, a nightmare." "Rag and bone!" "Any old iron!" "Toys for babies!" "Balloons for ladies!" "Stop them having little babies!" "Rag and bone!" "When I look back, I do wonder hovv I fancied him. (LAUGHS)" "JAN:" "I knew, horses, Brian wouldn't say no." "But it was working on Howard." "I thought, "Yeah, he's the one I've got to work on."" "HOWARD:" "I was back at the club, and dovvn it came with a thump." "What do I do now?" "And, of course, I'd bought the mare, I had all the paperwork," "I had the pedigree, I had everything." "(HORSE WHINNIES)" "Well, he Went white, because, of course, he'd had problems before and he had promised Angela, that's his vvife, that he wouldn't get involved again." "But I Wasn't having any of it." "HOWARD:" "Revvbell never actually vvon a race." "You wouldn't have given her a second look." "You know, she was just an ordinary-looking mare." "She was middle-aged." "She was pretty, but she was also pretty chubby." "During her racing career, which Wasn't very long, she tried to kill every jockey that sat on her." "She would rather run into a brick wall than jump it." "It got to the point Where they...nobody would ride her, because she was just mental." "(THUNDER CRACKS)" "(THUNDER ROLLS)" "HOWARD:" "I think Jan came along at probably exactly the right time to get me interested." "I was having a bad time in vvork." "I was in my mid-40s." "And after 15 years," "I'd had enough of working for the biggest firm on the planet in accountancy, and I phoned in and said, "I'm not coming back," and I resigned." "And then I Went and did my ovvn thing for a fevv years, which didn't vvork out." "ANGELA:" "It's just that he's always loved horse-racing, just to breed his own horse, see it run on a track, it's just...it's always been his dream, and he thought he's lost the dream, but this was his chance to get it back." "We sat clown one evening, and he said, "It really will not cost us any money this time."" "And I said, "You're right there." "it certainly will not."" "I think, probably, the attraction was that it couldn't be done, initially." "You knovv, "We just can't do this."" "Er...and then, of course, that's the attraction, isn't it?" "Once he was...the roller-coaster was...was going, he was right." "Yeah, there was no turning back then." "I had him hook...hook, line, and sinker." "MAN:" "The first races were not really races as such, as matches." "I would have a good horse, you would have a good horse, and I would challenge you to a match across Nevvmarket Heath." "You look in any racing calendar and..." "I've got one here. 200 years old." "All the owners, really, were lords, marquises, dukes." "The occasional major general." "It was very much the sport of the landed gentry, the rich landed gentry." "HOWARD:" "Right, we put a sign up on the wall in the club," ""Anybody wants to join a syndicate of racehorse ownership, speak to Jan."" "MAN:" "I was at the club, having a drink with all the boys, and Jan come up to us, behind the bar, and said, was any of us interested in going in shares with her on a horse." "(MOTORBIKE REVS)" " (DOG BARKS) - (CAT MIAOWS)" "WOMAN:" "I met Jan and Brian, and they said, "Would you like to come..." "have a share with a horse,"" "and I said, "No way."" "(CHUCKLES) "No way," I told them." "I said, "I don't know nothing about horses."" "I don't." "(CHICKENS CLUCK)" "There is only one vvord." "Stupid, crazy." "Two Words, then." "There is nothing else to say about it." "HOWARD:" "The maths are very straightforward." "The horse is gonna be in training for at least seven months a year, ancl we work backwards from there." "So, that's 30 people paying £10 a week." "It's £300." "Doesn't take an accountant to vvork that out, which is 15 grand a year." "(PEOPLE CHAT)" "(LAUGHING) And you know bugger all." "That's all I knew, to go in a betting shop, write a bet out, put money dovvn, and lose." "And I was walking round and I thought, "Why, yes."" "So, I Went back to Jan and Brian's." "I said, "Yes, I vvill."" "I'm not horsey, mind." "(HORSE WHINNIES AND SNORTS)" "HOWARD:" "Overall, the syndicate came together for one simple reason." "They wanted to see if it could work." "We started saving on 1st January 2000, our £10.." "...and, at that point, Jan decided vve needed to start looking for the stallion." "(HORSE WHINNIES)" "I couldn't look at horses that vve couldn't afford. (LAUGHS)" "(HORSE WHINNIES)" "BRIAN:" "She said, "Oh, here's a nice one here." "Bien Bien." "He's from America." ""He still holds the track record in Hollywood Park." So, we said righto." "We did a deal." "It was £3,000 plus VAT." "But if she didn't foal, there'd be no fee." "JAN:" "I got a little job in Asdafs then, early mornings." "I worked there six clays a week, and then on the weekends and some evenings in the week" "I worked behind the bar." "Yeah, hard work." "When I look Ioaok now, I don't know how I did it." "But you do." "When you vvant something bad enough, you vvill, Won't you?" "(BABY CRIES)" "JAN:" "All through my life, I've never actually been me." "(CHILDREN CALL OUT)" "As a little girl, I was Kelly's daughter." "When I started school, I was Trevor's sister." "When I got married, I was Daisy's Wife." "And I Wanted to make my mark." "To prove it to myself, more than to everybody else." "(BABY CRIES)" "I got married young, and I had my children young, and then, as the children were growing up, you had to take a job that brought money in." "I worked in a factory for 23 years." "You know, nobody really wants to do that for a living." "You do it for the money." "So, outside of that, any time that you've got, you have to do something that takes you away from it." "Oh, he was gorgeous." "He was all these long legs, you know, and this beautiful face with a white blaze, and then, when you looked, you could see, it was like as if somebody painted on four white socks pulled up to his knees." "After a couple of days, when he was sturdy on his legs and that, we brought him up to the allotments." "(CHICKENS CLUCK)" "JAN:" "We had one of Brian's DIY stables, do it yourself." "It was like a shantytown, you knovv, all boards nailed together." "We let him out for the first time, to see him running around there, like... well, he was like a spring lamb." "TONY:" "He was such a beautiful-looking animal, you know." "But there was nothing to him." "Nothing to him at all, like." "HOWARD:" "He was so gangly, spindles of legs, he just looked like sort of a Walt Disney movie." "Um..."Kind of wobbly, ain't you?" as Thumper said." "JAN:" "Right from when vve brought him home, he had a personality." "It was like having a puppy, because he would come up to you and he'd have a little sniff just, you knovv, to see What you had, and he'd follow you around, and he weren't shy." "TONY:" "They used to all go up, all the locals, if they was doing dinners and that." "They never chucked no stuff in the bins no more." "All the peelings and the...all the waste, and they'd just chuck over the fence for the...for the horse." "HOWARD:" "We decided, "OK, everybody put a name in" ""and we'll vote it dovvn from the top."" "And vve had a meeting, with a bar shack, to celebrate the naming of the horse." "And we had the most ridiculous names." "We had, um..." "Top l-lat." "Red Robin." "PovverGen." "I mean, Where these names were coming from," "I mean, it just wouldn't have happened." "It would have been over my dead body anyway, even though there's a democracy." "Here vve go." "It's time to pick." "TONY:" "Jan came up with the idea." "She said, "We're all an alliance," and she said, "This is our dream."" "And she said, "We'll name him Dream Alliance."" "So, vve all had to vote and that's..." "that's the name that came up." "Dream Alliance." "Oh!" " Dream Alliance!" "Dream Alliance!" " Great name." "I like that." "HOWARD:" "There's a snap of him stood there on really barren ground with this pylon behind him, and it really sums up What he was all about." "(HORSE SNORTS)" "He was a Working-class horse that was about to take on the likes of the best." "That was the dream." "(HORSES SNORT)" "MAN:" "I was working in the yard and savv a car approaching up the drive." "This big chap, with piercings and, um..." "jewellery and tattoos everywhere, said, "Is this Philip Hobbs's yard?" ""We Wanted to call in and see, because We've got a horse to have him train,"" "and I was thinking at the time, "These are people that are coming oh holiday." ""They just want...they want a..." "a cheap tour round a racing yard," ""cos they savv it by the side of the road, they thought they'd chance their arm," ""come in and have a look round" ""and then go and spend the rest of the week in Butlirfs."" "BRIAN:" "Well, Jan had done the talking, not me." "Cos she was afraid I was gonna say something stupid." "We thought, vvell, if We're gonna do it, um...a good trainer can get the best out of a moderate horse." "A bad trainer would ruin a good horse." "So, we thought we'd go to the top." "TONY:" "Well, when you Went there, and seeing What vve had, and you Went somewhere like that we couldn't believe it." "I says, "Five-star hotel." I said, "Howard, he's going to Philip Hobbs."" "So, Howard didn't have a say in it." "I said, "You Want to go dovvn there and have a look."" "HOWARD:" "She said, "Ooh!" "It's like the Riviera clown there compared to up here." ""Dream Won't know What will have hit him." "He'll think he's in Shangri-la."" "Of course, he then proceeded to tell us what his rates were." "I can remember quite clearly, cos I paid the bills." "They were £315 plus VAT per week." "Novv, that adds up at 18,000 for 12 months, but by then we'd saved enough." "So, the decision was taken." "That's where we go." "Good lad." "Good boy." "Good boy." "Good boy." "Yeah." "HOWARD:" "We moved him initially to, um...a hay farm in Hereford." "They'd agree to take him on and give him his manners, his racing manners, you know." "This is What you're supposed to do, um...to prepare him, really, for What was coming." "(THEY TALK AND CHUCKLE)" "BRIAN:" "I watched him grow and grow." "He looked classy, you know." "He looked the part." "Dream and I had a pact- that he would go, he'd give us everything, but once he'd had enough, he would come home." "(HORSE WHINNIES AND SNORTS)" "JAN:" "It's a bit like having a child." "You nurture 'em, you send 'em off to boarding school, and then they come back." "JOHNSON:" "The first few weeks are very gentle work " "Walking, trotting and cantering." "I think he vvas probably as shell-shocked and surprised and confused as vve Were." "He was big and gangly, and he was looking at everything." "And vve really didn't think he would show very much because he was so big and backward." "To sum it up, he was a snotty-nosed little comp boy turning up at Eton on his first day, with, um...you know, his handkerchief falling out of his pocket and, er...not knowing, you knovv, anything about the world" "or What was going on around him." "JAN"." "We hoped we had a racehorse." "He looked like a racehorse." "He behaved like a racehorse." "But whether he could actually run fast enough was another thing." "JOHNSON:" "As we stepped up his work the doubts of his upbringing, the breeding and everything, you think, "Yeah, this actually can't really happen."" "Although he's still very, very Willing and he'll do everything you ask him, he's just not very fast." "(HORSE PANTS)" "HOWARD:" "Philip telephoned me in about the August time of 2004, er...to say that, "Dream's ready for an experience run."" "Fine." "Great." "I put the phone clown ancl went, "We're going to Newbury!"" "It was a minibus." "Tony - or we call him "Kirby"" " Kirby was on the bus, along with 13 others." "(PASSENGERS SING)" "Oh, I was over the moon." "I was just so chuffed." "I thought, "Oh, he's gonna race..." "gonna race."" "(Y ANNOY ANNOUNCEMENT)" "HOWARD:" "Kirby got on with his proverbial Tesco carrier bag with his sandwiches, because he Wasn't going to waste his bloody money at Nevvbury, buying those beefburgers for six quid." "(Y ANNOY ANNOUNCEMENT)" "So, he brought his own, plus his supply of lager for the clay." "Course, as soon as he got to the gate, they stopped him." "I can't repeat What he said, but it was somewhere along the lines of," ""I'm a mm-mm owner and I can do What I want."" "(Y ANNOY ANNOUNCEMENT)" "And they were gobsmacked." "That was the realisation that we were owners." "They hacl to let him in." "Well, once you'd put the badge on, you was the owner, and then, oh, well, you could go now Where you Wanted to and you could meet all you Wanted to, and you felt good." "Wow, yeah." "Ooh." "Look, look at the horse!" "Look at the horse!" "BRIAN:" "Never gone to a racecourse before, to bet or anything like that." "When we got there, there was crowds of people there." "We thought, "Oh, I hope he doesn't let us clown now."" "EIRA:" "He just held his head so high and he looked as if to say, "This is Where I belong."" "And it vvas...you're thinking, "Oh, he thinks he's a star."" "(CROWD CHATYERS)" "MAN:" "First time they come on a racecourse," "I look at the form book and I look at the stallion and normally you look dovvn at the mare, "Oh, she ran four or five times." ""She come second and she vvon a race and she's retired to stud."" "So, when Dream Alliance runs, he's out of a mare called Revvbell, you have a look and you notice it's run three times, it's finished tailed off last, tailed off last, and pulled up." "You think, you knovv, this must be the slowest horse in the country." "I didn't fancy that was gonna produce anything any good." "JAN:" "I was sort of, um...on tenterhooks." "I never thought about Winning. lvvas more concerned that he wouldn't be last." "JAN:" "The syndicate let me pick the colours." "I Wanted gunmetal grey and maroon." "A lot of 'em didn't like them." "They said they looked bland." "But I liked 'em so I didn't care. (LAUGHS)" "COM MENTATOR:" "The tape goes back and they're off and they've all got away, although Grace Dieu is a bit slowly into her stride." "Moving slowly away was Jolly's Pride, and Emkanat another one off the back, as they go through this first quarter mile." "Idris is close up and behind." "He's on the inside of Sun Pageant." "Dream Alliance as well 'there." "So too is Double Dizzy." "HOWARD:" "I honestly had to lean on the fence, because my heart was pounding, I was sweating." "This was it." "He was running." "COMMENTATOR:" "Buena Vista bang there on the inside." "Tracking these leaders is Dream Alliance." "Coming on the right outside is Double Dizzy." "JAN:" "And there he is coming up." "He was sort of lobbing along and his whole head was going back and forward and his tongue hanging out." "It's Classic Quart and Buena Vista." "Those are the leading pair." "Dream Alliance still there towards '(he inside and making threatening moves too." "And as they came into the straight with half a mile to go, he probably had three behind him, and I remember the jockey gave him just a tap." "HOWARD:" "And then all of a sudden, here he comes." "...B y about three or four lengths from Sun Pageant." "And High Altitude having a good battle." "But ifs only for the minor honours because lnaro gets to the line in front by about three." "High Altitude is in second place and then in behind these is Dream Alliance." "It was like as if, "Oh, I quite like doing this."" "And off he Went, and he came fourth." "We were over the moon." "Very pleasantly surprised from What I was expecting." "ANDY:" "First time it ran, you think, "Well, this horse has run a storm," ""they showed a lot of promise."" "Was it a fluke?" "You know What I mean?" "You think, "Second time, it's sure to..." "it can't run so well." "Well, can it?"" "And then you find out a little bit more." "COMMENTATOR:" "Tapes are up, and they're off." "Well, this horse was bred and brought up on an allotment." "L-low can that possibly be a success?" "(CROWD CHEERS)" "(CHICKENS CLUCK)" "(QUACKING)" "(SNORTS)" "(ROOSTER GROWS)" "(BIRDSONG)" "BRIAN:" "When he started racing, he was the village's horse, cos everyone would say, "Wherfs the horse running now?"" "and, well, I used to tell 'em everything, I Would." "JAN:" "I never looked on him as our horse." "To me, he belonged to anyone in the village who Wanted to follow him." "...And walking out onto the course now for our final race today." "TONY:" "They couldn't Wait for him to race again." "It was something happening in their village, like." "If anything, I'd say it got us closer." "You see that horse running round..." "TONY:" "There was something coming out of their village, doing good, instead of just forgotten." "TONY:" "I was 15 years of age when I left school and vve Went straight dovvn into the training centre in the collieries." "At the beginning, it was frightening, cos you'd go clown there, you'd think, "Where am I going, like?"" "You know, you was stuck with about a dozen of you." "It's hard work ancl stinking work, like." "The life was hard, but the community was close." "Well, they just got fed up with conditions in the pits and the money." "So, they all decided, clip together, "We'll go on strike."" "Wasn't long after, they was all shutting dovvn, left, right and centre." "Once a pit's shut, you can forget it." "You might as well flatten it and build a building site, which they've done in most of the places." "You know, there's nothing there." "(HORSE SNORTS)" "HOWARD:" "It was his fourth race, and vve were full of hope." "But there were a lot of expensive horses in the race." "(Y ANNOY ANNOUNCEMENT)" "(HORSE SNORTS)" "COMMENT ATOR"." "And they're off and running for the opening race this afternoon and Back Among Friends..." "ANGELA:" "I Wasn't particularly on board for a long time." "So, I Wasn't expecting a lot." "Back Among Friends the leader by just a length to Dream Alliance on the inside." "ANGELA:" "He was passing the horses as he went along the way, and...and the atmosphere was great, and I was starting to jump, and I could see Howard looking at me as if..." ""Gosh!" You know?" ""It's amazing to see Angela getting so excited about something."" "As they took that one, Dream Alliance landed in front." "Dream Alliance..." "I can rememberjust jumping up and dovvn like a banshee and thinking, "This horse, he...he really is going to do something special."" "Good jump by the leader, Dream Alliance, he's in real control here." "And Dream Alliance is so-and-so." "Dream Alliance..." "Oh, my God." "Come on, Dream." "Come on, Dream." "Come on, Dream." "As Dream Alliance comes towards the last, pops up safely enough..." "And you knew, well, three-quarters of a mile out, there was only gonna be one winner." "Dream Alliance, while Principe Azzurro promising in second place." "(CHEERING)" "TONY:" "And the whole village, they'd all been in the club, Watching." "He refreshed...back our lives, sort of thing." "I said, "I'm so proud to be part of that."" "I said that." ""He's my life at the moment," I said." "HOWARD:" "Dream did it again straightaway afterwards at Haydock, um...just absolutely slaughtered the field." "JOHNSON:" "Although he Wasn't best for his speed, he did have that real streetwise, "looking for a scrap" mental attitude, to really get in there, get stuck in, and really keep fighting for every race he competes in." "Ancl we thought, "Oh, this is it now." "We've mastered it."" "And the feeling." "You...you've done it, you know." "You've cracked it." "You've actually bred something that can win on the racecourse." "Well, the paddock is absolutely packed now." "Let's see if we can finci a few people." "Nick Scholfield here, behind here." "Look round here." "We've got the Dream Alliance team over here." "We've heard a lot from Jan Vokes." "I should think she's beside herself with worry right now." "You all right'?" "No, I'm very nervous." " You're not gonna Watch, are you?" "No?" " No, I'm not gonna Watch." "So, Brian, you're gonna have to tell her What's happening." "Oh, yes, I'll tell her." " Yeah?" " Yeah." " OK..." " I'm a nervous wreck." "(LAUGHS) I bet you are." "Tom O'Brien over there, who's gonna keep the ride after riding the Welsh National." "He rides Dream Alliance in the big race, and Philip and Sarah Hobbs there, who trains him..." "Let's go over here, because..." "JAN:" "When you left school at 15, you imagined you were gonna change the World." "You was gonna do this, you were gonna do that." "It was just unreal to see him and think, "I bred him."" "When things got on her mind, you know, ancl she felt low, we'd jump in the car and we'd go to Minehead and see the horse, and soon as she...she was different." "Soon as she'd seen that horse, she was different." "JAN:" "He could read your moods." "You always got a sense he was listening to you and he understood." "It was like as if he was wrapping himself around you ancl giving you a hug." "(HORSE BLOWS THROUGH NOSE)" "HOWARD:" "Your affection, love..." "grew with the time, and it became stronger." "I think it's the innocence, he doesn't ask for anything, and because he doesn't ask for anything and he's giving everything, that's the part that draws you into him." " Come on, come on." " WOMAN:" "Right, come here." " (HORSE SNORTS) - (WOMAN CLICKS TONGUE)" "HOWARD:" "And then something happened." "Dream Went into the wilderness." "COMMENT ATOR". ...into shared second place, in fact definite second..." "Dream Alliance has gone!" "Dream Alliance has gone." "The favourite is on the deck, when in front." "And we'd have all the debriefs and everything would be Wrong with him." "You know, "Oh, I think he's got problems with his back." ""He's not seeming to jump properly." "Oh, he didn't Want to try." ""It seemed from the moment I set him off that he Wasn't interested."" "And vve were all gutted." "JAN:" "Dream?" "I don't know What it was with him." "It was...it was like as if he was saying to you, "Well, I'll have you today." ""You think I'm gonna win'?" "Think on." "I'm not."" "HOWARD:" "And then the banter in the village started." ""Wherfs that donkey running next?" ""Wherfs Sicknote running next?"" "So, there was only one race left for him at that season, which was in Perth." "(HORSE WHINNIES)" "(HORSE SNORTS)" "JAN:" "I said to Brian, "vve are going." "I don't care." "Win or lose, We're going."" "We'd been to every race." "He looked absolutely stunning." "Brian said, "He's gonna win today."" "We phoned home, told 'em all at home, "Put your money oh him."" "They didn't listen, cos he'd had a bad run, you...you know." "They didn't put money on him." "BRIAN:" "I said, "Come on now, Dreamy boy." "Don't let me down."" "You knovv, and his ears would prick and he knevv...he knew my voice." "COMMENT ATOR"." "And they are off and running for the richest race ever to be run at Perth, and it's Dream Alliance who's in front, just about, from Kerry Lads, who's in second place now," "Iron Man on the inside, Lothian Falcon goes strongly, Morgan Be..." "JAN:" "He had a mind of his ovvn, did Dream." "He was so quirky." "When he was on form, he was good." "He took some beating." "But you couldn't always guarantee that the right Dream was gonna turn up oh the day." "He was a Valley boy, see!" "(JAN CHUCKLES)" "They're jack the lads, aren't they, in the Valleys?" "You know, these Welsh boys." "You can't always trust 'em." "COMMENTATOR:" "And it's Dream Alliance who's clear by 10 or 12 maybe now, from Lothian Falcon who's in second place." "Dream Alliance wins it for the Alliance Partnership." "BRIAN:" "And all of a sudden, it all Went quiet, then they was scratching their heads, as if to say, "Where the bloody hell did he come from?"" "Aye, they was all gob-struck, as if..." "Well, they didn't expect him to, er...vvin it, did they?" "So, Brian said, "Oh, I'll have to go and pick the winnings up."" "Well, you'd swear he'd won..." "you'd swear he'd won the lottery." "He come running back." "He said, "I've got £500," like, as if..." "Some of them vvon...had vvon thousands and he had £500." "He was really chuffed." "(CHAT-FER)" "JAN:" "We thought, "That's it hovv, our boy, he's...he's oh the road."" "And then vve drove all the Way home." "We had the rock'n'roll music blaring full blast in the car, singing our heads off all the Way home." "TOM AGNES"." "it Down the lane H!" "walk" "# With my sweet Mary" "# Hair of gold and lips like cherries" "# It's good to touch" "# The green, green grass of home" "# Then I awake and look around me" "# At four grey walls that surround me it And I realise, yes I was only dreaming... it" "So, Philip announces We're going to the Hennessy Gold Cup." "Well, to anyone in racing, the Hennessy Gold Cup is the next best thing to the Grand National and the Cheltenham Gold Cup." "It is huge, traditional, and everybody wants to vvin it." "All the top trainers, top racehorses in the country are all there." "JAN:" "On the morning of the Hennessy Gold Cup, put the television on, listening to the tips and What people thought of different horses in the race." "MAN"." "Jumping and stamina are going to be the keys to the Hennessy Gold Cup, more so than ever." "JAN:" "One commentator said that she wouldn't comment on him, she didn't rate him, he Wasn't a thoroughbred, simply meaning that he was owned by people that weren't known, um...he Wasn't bred out of a mare that was of any consequence." "So, in...in her eyes, he Wasn't a thoroughbred." "(CHUCKLES)" "She's lucky I didn't see her that day." "Well, we was just second best, weren't we'?" "We were riffrafi'." "# Give me some men who are stout-headed men" "# Who will fight for the right they adore" "# Start me with ten" "# And I'll soon give you 10,000 more, oh it Shoulder to shoulder and bolder and bolder" "# They grow as they go to the fore it Then there's nothing in the world can stall or halt... it" "JAN:" "When I could see him coming up and only Denman in front of him, one of the best horses in the country at the time," "I thought, "You take that and shove it, love."" "COM MENTATOR: ...the Hennessy Cognac Gold Cup, Denrnan, under 11-12, delivers in tremendous style, followed in second by Dream Alliance." "All of a sudden, this is not a horse to be mucked around with." "He was a serious racehorse." "JAN:" "We were starting to get blown out of the water a bit, because this horse that wed bred, thinking we were just gonna go round local tracks and, you know, have a bit of fun with," "he was really making a name for himself." "You got to the point where you were wondering, "What's he gonna do next?"" "When Dream first Went into racing, obviously, he didn't have a great value." "So, the insurance on him was slight." "I think he was insured for about seven-and-a-half thousand." "Once he started Winning, then, obviously, his value Went up so he was valued at something like 180,000." "It started off as a bit of a joke, but, hey, it's...you know, it's gonna be a bit of fun, we'll...we'll make the most of it." "He was now mixing it with the big time and he was a serious contender." "HOWARD:" "After the Hennessy, Dream had the world at his feet and vve Went to Aintree for the race before the Grand National in 2008 and, of course, the Grand National itself it's the greatest race on Earth." "So, the race before is an appetiser, and Dream's on the card." "COM MENTATOR: ...and are circling and are making their short journey out onto '(he racecourse." "(BIRDSONG)" "COMMENT ATOR"." "Starter may just want them to slow down." "No, he's let them go." "They're off and racing for the John Smith Extra Cold Handicap Hurdle." "Three miles, half a furlong and 13 flights in all." "Buena Vista first is shown with Rio de Janeiro..." "TONY:" "I was the pub watching it, I was." "I hadn't got the money to go to these places." "You know, it's...it's the economy." "I'd watch it on the telly." "COMMENTATOR:" "Artiste Lad." "Backbord makes ground on the outside." "HOWARD:" "Jan and Brian had never missed a race, but literally the night before, Dream's mother, Revvbell, had died giving birth." "COMMENTATOR:" "So, Dream Alliance and Rio de Janeiro come next." "BRIAN:" "So, we was there now, in the house, watching it on the telly." "Janet can't Watch." "She was sat on the stairs with her hands over her eyes." "COMMENTATOR: ...on Dream Alliance, Coq Hardi and Don't Push It." "BRIAN:" "He was in the right position." "I said, "Well, he's gonna win this now."" "To myself, I was saying it." "You could hear him mentioning Dream Alliance all the time." "COM MENTATOR:" "Once again, they're all over safely." "In third place, Don?" "Push it." "Aurora's Encore still travelling very strongly towards the outside of the leading group." "Artiste Lad is also in a handy position with Backbord." "Reel Charmer creeps closer." "Dream Alliance, I think something might have gone amiss in midfield." "He looked as if he might be pulling up sharply." "Dream Alliance is out of the race, pulled up before that flight of hurdles, which the rest of the field take well." "HOWARD:" "I'm watching the race from the stand and I can just basically make out the shape of the horse over the far side, but it's half a mile away and it's pandemonium anyway, as the race is ending in front of us" "and everybody's shouting and I don't know What's happening." "BRIAN:" "I said to Jan, "They got a screen around him." ""I think they're gonna shoot him."" "She was crying." "I was crying." "(MUFFLED SHOUTS)" "TONY:" "Even my friends in the pub, they said, "They're gonna put him clown."" "I said, "Don't talk so stupid." They said, "They're gonna put him clown." "HOWARD:" "Eventually, the vets phoned me and said there was a profusion of blood everywhere." ""We think he's severed a tendon." "We don't know if it's completely gone through."" "I said, "if there's any chance that he can survive this," ""we don't care whether he can race again," ""yeah, you've got to keep him alive."" "They harnessed him up, and they took him to the veterinary college in Liverpool." "ANGELA:" "And that journey home in the car was a really sombre journey." "We were going home, thinking that we might never see Dream not just race, but he might have to be put clown." "JAN:" "When they came back and Howard came in and he just looked at me and he vvent," ""Well, What can vve do?" "What can vve do?" he said." ""It looks as if it's, you know, the encl of the journey." ""Well, you know, what can we clo?"" "(HORSE BLOWS THROUGH NOSE)" "JAN:" "On the Sunday morning, the news seemed better, that they were going to be able to patch him up." "So, Howard could relay that news then to the rest of the syndicate." "HOWARD:" "The injury Dream incurred normally leads to the horse being put clown." "The horse in front of Dream had flicked the hurdle." "Dream cohcertihaed his four legs together as the hurdle came back towards him." "So, his rear hoof scythed through the equivalent of his Achilles tendon and stopped him dead." "(HORSE NEIGHS)" "They said, "Oh, he...he Won't race again."" "So, vvell, me and Janet was heartbroken." "We had a pact, Dream and I, when he was young, that...if ever anything happened, What if he couldn't... if he didn't Want to race no more, or he couldn't race no more," "he would come home." "(CHICKENS CLUCK)" "HOWARD:" "You just couldn't imagine losing him." "I can remember the vet saying, "Look, he ain't gonna race." ""He's gonna have a...a problem." "It's your choice." ""There's the possibility that we could provide stem-cell surgery."" "What it involved was, they would take cells from the bone marrow of the horse incubate it, grow it, and then insert it, inject it directly into the wound and let it grow back." "JAN:" "It Wasn't guaranteed." "There was no guarantees." "There would be a long rehabilitation after, and, taking the actual stem cells into account, and the 16 months' rehabilitation as well, it was in the £20,000 region." "So, vve had a meeting." "The whole syndicate had a meeting." "MAUREEN:" "Well, it was gonna cost a lot of money, but Dream Alliance had vvon money." "So, in my opinion, now, mind, it was his money." "JAN:" "There were people that were struggling to put foocl on the table." "But he was born in Cefn Fforest, he grew up on the allotment, and he...he was one of us, he was part of the syndicate." "It may not mean that he would race again, but it would give him a quality of life." "BRIAN:" "And fair play for every one of them in the syndicate." "Not one of them moaned and said, "No, I'm not paying toward..." You know." "They said, "Pay it." "The money is there." ""The horse had vvoh it." "You give him every chance he got."" "(MONITOR BEEPS)" "(BELL CHIMES)" "(HORSE WHINNIES)" "SARAH:" "The vet said that it was touch and go, and he looked very poor when he came back." "You wouldn't know one Way or the other if it was going to Work or not and you just hope to God it will vvork." "JOHNSON:" "It really was just a very slow process of building that muscle back up again." "You know, we started off leading him out round the yard for two minutes a clay, and then five minutes a day and then ten minutes a day and gradually building that up." "BRIAN:" "Me and Janet used to go dovvn regular." "Buck him up a bit, I suppose." "That's What you'd say." "Take him Polos, and talk to him like I'm talking to you, and the horse'd look at us, you knovv, as if you're dopey." "But, um...he...he understood everything we were saying to him." "JAN:" "We'd go dovvn and there'd be smaller bandages on." "Then you'd go clown ancl they'd be walking him, you know, and then you'd go dovvn again and they'd be riding him." "BRIAN:" "A lot of people think, if they can't race, they're ho good to them, are they?" "Well, he'd either have gone for meat or...or, er..." "Some are lucky." "They go to a riding school and things like that." "BRIAN:" "If our horse only had three legs, vve would have him." "It's an industry to them." "To us, he was like one of the family." " (cRovvs CAW) - (swans TWEET)" "(HORSES GALLOP AND BLOW)" "HOWARD:" "It was about 16 months later." "The three of us drove dovvn together- Jan, Brian and myself- and so vve really didn't know What to expect." "(HORSES PANT AND SNORT)" "All you can hear as they're approaching the steepness of the hill, is, "Ppp!" "Ppp!" "Ppp!" "Ppp!"" "(HORSES PANT)" "There's 40 horses in pairs and you've got eyes for one." "(HORSE PANTS)" "JAN:" "And here he comes, and you can see him lobbing his head back and forward, coming up and it...it was as if he'd..." "he'd never been injured." "You...do you knovv, you're just stood there and you're seeing him coming up the gallops and it's like as if the whole past 16 months didn't happen." "(HORSE PANTS)" "HOWARD:" "And as he brushed past us, he literally did look straight at us... (HORSE PANTS) ...and it was that moment." "I would swear blind he winked at us!" "(LAUGHS) I don't know." "I got my doubts over that." "But I would swear blind he winked at us." "(HORSE PANTS)" "BRIAN:" "He looked at us as if to say, "I'm back."" "I felt I was King Kong, you know?" "You can keep all your money." "I got my horse." "(HORSE PANTS)" "(HORSE PANTS)" "HOWARD:" "He was walking around and he was absolutely shattered." "He was panting like an old man, and Philip said, "That's his first time." ""So," he said, "we can start to think now." ""Maybe...maybe two, three months and we'll have him ready."" "JOHNSON:" "The aim was to get him back onto the racecourse, to make sure that he was able to stick racing, you know, just the pressure of racing." "L-lis first race back, because he was, you know, the street-fighter that he was, he ran very, very we" and flushed second." "When vve heard that vve still had a racehorse, the feeling..." "You're back up there." "What can he do now?" "(HORSE SNORTS)" "(HORSE SNORTS)" "JAN:" "We never expected to see him race again, vve really didn't, and then vve were told he was going for the Welsh." "(HORSE SNORTS)" "JAN:" "It took your breath away, to think that we could come from nearly losing him to going into one of the..." "major races on the calendar." "(# Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau)" "# Mae hen wfao' fy nhadau yn annwyf f m!" "# Gvv/ad beirdd a chantorion... #" "ANDY:" "To have a runner in the Welsh National, it must feel really good for you." "To be Welsh and have a runner in the Welsh National must be even better." "# Gvv/adgarwyr tra mad" "# Dros ryddid. .. #" "ANDY:" "But then you remember this horse is the one that's had the... treatment on its tendons." "Now, a horse, especially a jump horse, you imagine springing off on their hooks, and landing, all the pressure that goes through their tendons." "Um..." "I thought he'd had it, really." "He'd never come back from that." "# Tra rnér un fur... #" "HOWARD:" "I'm not religious, but I actually go to the..." "my parents' grave every Christmas, and I actually Went there on Christmas Eve, as I always do, and I asked them for a favour." "I asked them for the miracle." "# Barhau. #" " (CROWD APPLAUDS) - (BAND PLAYS)" "(Y ANNOY ANNOUNCEMENT)" "(BAND CONTINUES PLAYING)" " (CROWD CHEERS) - (MUSIC MUFFLES COMMENTARY)" "COMMENT ATOR"." "Now, there's a long run to the first of those." "The yellow jacket of Giles Cross and Harry Skelton is the leader early on..." "HOWARD:" "I can't really remember the first circuit." "I just felt sick, and you could hear silence, yet I know there was pandemonium." "COMMENTATOR:" "It's halfway in the Coral Welsh National, from Coe racing in second place, a couple of lengths back in third, Ki/beggan Blade, on the outside of Dream Alliance..." "The commentary hadn't really given him any recognition at that point, cos he didn't have a hope in hell, he was 40 to 1." "HOWARD:" "When they swung around into the straight, the commentary Went somewhere along the lines of," ""And Coe has made a bad mistake at a crucial time,"" "and those Words stuck to me when Jess followed it up with, "And it's Dream Alliance who's off with a three- to four-length lead," ""followed by Coe, Miko de Beauchene, and Le Beau Bai in pursuit..."" "...and theyjumped the second last and Dream was still four lengths in front." "COMMENT ATOR"." "Silver By Nature in second place." "Dream Alliance hanging over to the far rail but he's still holding Silver By Nature, who's come in with one final effort, but Dream Alliance, ridden out, will get home in '(he Coral Welsh National" "and a fairy-tale return..." "HOWARD:" "And the commentator said," ""He's paid his owners' faith back in one go,"" "and I can't remember any more for the next hour." "I know I retreated to the toilet, er..." "and didn't go straight to the ring, because I had a lot of, um... er...people to thank, who are no longer here." "(APPLAUSE)" "As he came clown over the last, you know, four fences, ancl, you know, it was obvious he was gonna win, um..." "I was, you know, hugely proud of him and everyone Who'd put the hours into getting him there, um...because it had been, you know... (CLEARS THROAT) ...unreal, to get him there, let alone to win the race," "um...and I can only imagine What the owners felt at the time because I was just hugely proud." "And that's What it means." "That's What it's about." "(MUSIC PLAYS)" "(CROWD CHEERS)" "TONY:" "I just Went nuts." "Oh, I was starkers." "Shirt above my head." ""There's only one Dream Alliance!"" "We were like lunatics, just like lunatics hugging each other, dancing, screaming around." "We were just like lunatics, and it was absolutely wonderful." "(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)" "JAN:" "He just come towards you, and all the steam come out of his nostrils, and he's...you knovv, he's looking around as if to say, "What's all the fuss about?"" "You know, "You wanted me to win, clicln't you'?" "I've given it you."" "They all said, "Kirby, you're back to your normal self, you're crazy,"" "and I said, "My baby's home."" "(CHUCKLES)" "(MUSIC DROWNS SPEECH)" "(MUSIC PLAYS IN PUB)" "ANGELA:" "We arranged to meet in...in a local pub, and someone rang ahead and said, "Could you get 30 steak and chips ready?"" "And vve got there and vve spent the evening there, passing the cup around and sharing our...our tales of the day." " (PEOPLE CHAT) - (GLASSES CLINK)" "We hadn't realised that mobile reception was pretty poor in that area." "I don't think anyone had even looked at their phones." "When we left, we got outside ancl everyone's phone started, um...messages coming in, missed calls, ancl, um...when we eventually answered, they said, "Do you realise this story has hit the news?"" "MALE REPORTER:" "The 23 people from B/ackvvood who jointly own Dream Alliance couldn't believe what they've just seen, as their horse, born eight years ago..." "FEMALE REPORTER:" "It's been a roller-coaster ride for the 23 syndicate members, who each pay £10 a week for..." "HOWARD:" "We'd all been transformed from village idiots er...into, um...superheroes." "Jan, particularly, er...became known as the horsewoman, um...from Asda." "I Went into Asda and bumped into her and she said, "Ooh, I've been being clapped." ""They're coming in here, clapping me in the aisles." "Who would clap a cleaner?"" "(HOWARD CHUCKLES)" "She said, "I feel like a film star."" "It got to the point Where I Wanted to go out and buy a burqa, because, yeah, well, everyone outside the door, everybody recognised you." "You knovv, everybody Wanted to, er..." "talk to you and ask you things, and everyone was your friend, everybody knew you." "Well, if you just move a little bit further along the gate there." "BRIAN:" "No sooner you'd come home, someone else would Want to come and see you, to see Where the horse was bred, cos they didn't believe it." "ALL:" "Dream Alliance at Aintree!" "FEMALE REPORTER:" "And so now the horse they nicknamed Sicknote is set to be entered for '(he 2010 Grand National." "HOWARD:" "After Dream won the Welsh National, there really Wasn't anywhere for him to go, apart from the Grand National and, of course, we'd be taking him back to the scene of Where he almost died." "(CAMERA CLICKS)" "MAUREEN:" "I didn't think it was fair on the horse." "I think it's a hard race." "Er...you know, he...he'cl just won the Welsh National." "To me, that was...that was the dream." "(HORSE GRUNTS AND GROANS)" "TONY:" "I thought it was too big for him, and you're talking, like, 40 horses, cramming around him, and them fences." "DEREK:" "Well, he was going back to a place" "Where he'd had that serious injury, and most people vvere saying, "Well, why are you going there?"" "Cos he'd earned his right to be there." "That's why We're going there." "Dream had earnt it." "(HORSE SNORTS)" "JAN:" "Howard, he was on a roller-coaster, and, you knovv, he felt the time was right." "If we didn't do it then, we wouldn't do it at all." "JAN:" "If he won, I mean, he'd go clown in history, wouldn't he'?" "(HELICOPTER WHIRS)" "(PEOPLE LAUGH AND CHAT)" "JAN:" "You're walking around, then all of a sudden the horses are parading." "(CROWD CHEERS)" "The rope was up." "You've got to be there to see it." "Ooh!" "It gives you goose pimples." "When I savv him in the paddock, and I swear that this is true, you could hear a pin drop because everybody's thinking, "Oh, my God." ""Those horses, our horses, are going out there," ""to actually, um..." "do something that can kill you."" "(HORSE PANTS)" "BRIAN:" "I stood by them fences, and they are big fences and it's not just jumping them, cos you've got a gap." "You know, you've got to go over something like that." "HOWARD:" "And so the whole lead-up to it became phenomenally distorted." "Did vve have his injury fixed to put his life in danger?" "(CROWD CHEERS)" "COMMENT ATOR"." "And they're off and racing, and King Johns Castle has refused to leave the starting area." "So, a casualty before the race has really begun." "Irish Raptor, Black Apalachi amongst those that are showing on the run towards the first state of play." "Ballyholland going up the inside of Hello Bud towards the centre of the racecourse." "So, it's Eric's Charm, goes at the first." "Several casualties in behind as well." "Vic Venturi was quite badly hampered." "Hello Bud followed by Snowy Morning and Dream Alliance." "They take Bechefis." "Gonna Castle out." "I'm watching them over." "And a bad mistake there " "Arbor Supreme is the one that's gone at the Chair." "Dream Alliance with the flashy white face is just in behind them as they go..." "As they continue their progress down towards Bechefs, Backstage has gone." "BRIAN:" "He was going tremendous." ""Bloody hell, he's gonna come somewhere here, if not vvin it,"" "I said to Janet." "And Vic Venturi has also come down at that melee at the previous fence." "They go now towards Beoheris Brook, Black Apafaohf. .." "(BIRDSONG)" "HOWARD:" "I'd lost all sense of fear for him." "He was absolutely loving it." "But, of course, as we now know, he clicl have an issue." "It was proved that Dream suffers from blood vessels." "He breaks blood vessels, which makes him feel like he's drowning internally as his lungs fill up." "(PANTS)" "JAN:" "Five fences out, he just stopped." "It gives you a sensation of choking." "But, of course, once it had eased back dovvn, he...he Wanted to run again, then, you know?" "But it was too late." "He couldn't." "(HORSE PANTS)" "HOWARD:" "We didn't Want it to end." "He'd only had a few races back so vve persevered." "JAN:" "I would have retired him then." "But for Howard, I think he thought Dream was invincible, that he was gonna go on for ever." "He felt that when the horse stopped, it was the end of a chapter in his life." "HOWARD:" "His final race, from the moment the tape Went up, he didn't try a leg." "He just said no." "We knew, really, in our heads, not our hearts, but both, that it...it was over." "(swans TWEET)" "(HORSE SNORTS)" "(WIND WHISTLES)" "(swans TWEET)" "TONY:" "It was a dream." "It was a dream." "It was something that happened out of nothing." "Cost me nothing, and I've had a fantastic..." "I had a fantastic..." "It was eight years with him." "(CROW CAWS)" "TONY:" "You know, we was just a little Welsh village nobody knew about, hardly, and it made them proud that they were recognised at last." "It did make 'em proud." "MAUREEN: it was something that I never, ever dreamt that I would do." "I'm proud to have been the owner..." "I am proud to think that I was one of 'em." "(LOW CHATFER)" "HOWARD:" "We actually Went there and did it." "It's elation when you can do something, particularly when no-one gives you a chance." "He just feels the horse did such a...a brilliant job for...for us, and, er..." "I don't knovv, it's just total love for him." "I don't know why." "He just loves that horse." "JAN:" "He always made me feel somebody else for the day." "Like when vve Went to the races, I Wasn't Janet the cleaner any more." "I was Janet the racehorse owner." "So, I think, overall, the charisma of the horse, um...will live a lot longer than, er..." "than him moving away from us." "(swans TWEET)" "(SNORTS)" "HOWARD:" "He's clown in Mineheacl having an absolute whale of a time." "Life of luxury." "I'm so glad he's got at least half his life left, doing something that I know he's enjoying, which is very little." "JAN:" "To look at him, you think, "I brought that ihto the world."" "Short of giving birth to him, I brought him into the world and he brought a lot of pleasure to a lot of people." "He enriched a lot of lives, and that's..." "that's something special." "BRIAN:" "Well, her ambition is now to breed another one, to win the Gold Cup at Cheltenham." "And don't think she can't do it no more, cos she sets her mind to summat, she does it." "(HORSE BLOWS THROUGH NOSE)" "I will have a Gold Cup on my cupboard if it's the last thing I do." "If I've got to buy it myself, I'll have a Gold Cup on my cupboard." "Yeah, this isn't the end." "And by the way, for the camera, I have got teeth." "They're in the house in a jar." "(CHUCKLES)" "You've seen 'em." "A"