Britain’s most prolific-winning trainer Mark Johnston is to cease training in his name with the licence passing to his son Charlie from the new year.
Johnston, 63, became the winningmost trainer of all time when he overtook the figure set by Richard Hannon snr with his 4,194th victory in 2018 and passed 5,000 winners in August, having shared the licence with his son since the start of 2022.
The four horses declared at Lingfield tomorrow will be the last to run in joint names with all horses declared from January 2 made in the name of 32-year-old Charlie Johnston.
