Nick Townsend talks to star trainer Mark Johnston

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A quiet May Monday in the racing calendar, but for Mark Johnston, there’s no lull in his relentless search for winners. Seated in the dining room of Kingsley House, the Middleham base he has transformed from a down-at-heel yard in 1988 to the powerhouse it is today, we pause our conversation to watch on TV as Military Two Step, a three-year-old daughter of the stable’s 2011 Irish St Leger victor Jukebox Jury, makes her debut in a 1m2f fillies’ novice event at Beverley.
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