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MARK OF THE TRUE WINNER

Nick Townsend with more insights from training legend Mark Johnston

Mark and Charlie Johnston, and

All trainers enjoy plucking some delicious low-hanging fruit. And they don’t get much more appealing than your stable’s representative being odds-on favourite in a three-horse 7f novice stakes at Chelmsford – and surely not to a man to whom winning was his raison d’etre for 35 seasons.
Indeed, a couple of hours after Mark Johnston and I (mostly him, in truth) put the racing world to rights, his son Charlie Johnston’s Champion Island duly breezes hom...

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