I suggested earlier that the only reason Anakin and his mother are so well looked after is because he is a Pod Jockey and his mother repairs the components for Watto's pod (which is how they sneaked out the parts for Anakin's).

You could show other child slaves (possibly using footage from other films) which are more badly treated on the streets of Mos Espa.

That way you could cut the whole of the original introduction and have Anakin meet Qui-Gon at the market just before the sandstorm.

He could then take Qui-Gon to meet his owner and get him to propose putting Anakin's pod into the race to win the parts.

Anakin has detected Qui-Gon is a Jedi, followed him, offered him hospitality, won the race, all to get himself away from Tatooine.

This is more like the sort of kid who would grow up to be Vader than what we saw in the theatrical version because he has a plan and follows it through.

His mother sees him as being without guile but he really has manipulated everyone into getting himself where he wants to be.