Julie Carew-Neill knew she was buying more than just a couple of stables and an old caravan when she purchased Joe Janiak's Queanbeyan training facilities last year.
She was buying a piece of Australian folklore the piece of land where Janiak and super sprinter Takeover Target started their journey from small-town battlers to world beaters.
But what Carew-Neill didn't know when she bought those stables out the back of the Queanbeyan racecourse is that she, too, could become a part of that folklore.
She didn't know that until she met an unwanted mare by the name of Lion Force.
A mare she believes can win more than her fair share of stakes races.
Anyone who knows anything about horse racing knows the story of Janiak, the struggling Queanbeyan cab driver who paid $1375 for a gelding with a bung leg named Takeover Target at a tried horse sale in 2003.
How he nursed Takeover Target to health and how the pair went on to dominate sprint races across the globe for six years, making millions of dollars in the process.
Carew-Neill knows the odds of that happening again are too astronmical to even contemplate.
For more, pick up a copy of today's Canberra Times
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