Mark Johnston-Thoughts Of Retirement Are Never Far From My Mind....

Seems a ridiculous thing to say about a man who is just about to break the record of winners Trained.....But the punters pal he certainly is not.

The horses will be thinking the same way.

I will be whooping and hollering when he does call it a day,

Unless Charlie takes the reins

Charlie will take the reigns for sure, overseen by daddy.

I can live with that.

If you read the article it could be thirteen years.
Will Charlie train any differently and how much is he allowed to do at the moment and will Elarqam win tomorrow ?

Charlie might be on his own middle eastern stipend by then.

He might not be the punters pal.....but he certainly is the owners pal and that's who pays his wages and the stable staff and.....

I remember a confident young Charlie leading horses round when he could have been no more than ten or eleven.

Was hoping it was Shouty.

Pity.

hope not - he's my most profitable trainer by far

Aug 16, 2018 -- 11:37AM, dave1357 wrote:

hope not - he's my most profitable trainer by far

dave1357 = Deidre.

Backing all of his horses for the last 5 seasons -£1113 according to RP stats.

Why does that not surprise me Kevo.

what % loss is that Kevo? that sounds bad but he has plenty of horses and he runs them practically every week

anything better than -20% is good

I've just checked, 6302 runners and -17.7%

I would guess that's about an average loss margin

"Backing all of his horses for the last 5 seasons -£1113 according to RP stats."

Goodwood - up £145 over the same period.  nearly 15% profit.   It's all those handicaps where he had three runners innit

Yeah do us all a favour and fack off

that did make me smile

It's around -17% and I'm glad he's not involved in the NH game.