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OBSESSION WITH WINNING HAS DRIVEN MARK TO GREATNESS

Jonathan Powell gives his assessment of the remarkable achievements of the record-breaking Mark Johnston

JONATHAN POWELL

Mark Johnston celebrates becoming the winning-most trainer in British history after Poet’s Society won the Clipper Logistics Handicap

Mark Johnston was given a racehorse by his father when he was ten and was set on becoming a trainer from the age of 14 when the walls of his bedroom at Aberfoyle 25 miles north of Glasgow were decorated with pictures of great Champions including Brigadier Gerard, Nijinsky and Mill Reef.
His father Ronald owned some distinctly modes...

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