Date of birth: 10 Sept 1959 Started training: 1987 Base: Kingsley House Stables, Middleham English Classic wins: 1
(2,000 Guineas) 2002 wins: 134 2001 wins: 114 2000 wins: 121 |
A qualified vet, Johnston took out his training licence in 1987.
After a short spell in Lincolnshire, he moved to the famous Kingsley House Stables in the historic northern racing centre of Middleham.
His operation there has grown and grown, as has his success rate - he surpassed the �2m prize money mark for the first time in 2002.
Johnston is ambitious and dedicated and his large string of horses are expected to share his work ethic.
He sent out more winners than any other UK-based trainer last season, but as the statistic suggests, many of Johnston's horses are not in the same league as rivals such as Aidan O'Brien in Ireland.
Yet Johnston is a shrewd race-planner and will send his inmates all over the globe if he believes they have a good chance of success.
And he is certainly getting himself known - he was included in the 2003 edition of Who's Who.
The blunt Scotsman could never be described as a fence-sitter as his articulate but argumentative weekly column in the Racing Post proves.
His one English Classic success has been Mister Baileys in the 2,000 Guineas in 1994.
MMIX
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