article_snippet: Richard Johnson striking blue eyes water as bright sunlight floods into the Royal Box at Newbury Racecourse and Richard Johnson casts Richard Johnson mind back to a Monday night in Stratford almost 21 years ago.
article_snippet: That was the first time I met Richard Johnson,’ Richard Johnson says.
article_snippet: Richard Johnson was a lot skinnier and younger looking, as we all were.
article_snippet: Johnson grew up on an arable and cattle farm in Hereford.
article_snippet: Johnson rode ponies as a child and as a teenager spent summers working at David Nicholson’s yard.
article_snippet: Johnson offered me a job when I left school at 16,’ says Johnson,
article_snippet: Johnson would read copies of the racing newspaper Sporting Life, now defunct, at breakfast time.
article_snippet: Peter Scudamore was from the same county
article_snippet: so I looked up to Peter Scudamore,’ says Johnson.
article_snippet: When I understood racing a bit more Richard Dunwoody was the man I looked up to.
article_snippet: Richard Dunwoody’s still someone I look up to today.