BIG INTERVIEW
Nick Townsend talks to a trainer who is fast making a name for himself

Maybe he has not spent quite as many years as his Royal namesake did in awaiting his coronation. But for Charlie Johnston it has also been a near lifetime of preparation before finally taking the throne at Middleham after succeeding his record-breaking father Mark this year.
As his mother Deirdre once told me: “It would be fair to say that Charlie posted his job application at the age of five!”
Today, the 32-year-old himself concurs with that assessment. “People say to me ‘Were you always going to do this...