Tom Johnston (greyhound trainer)
{{Short description|British greyhound racing professional trainer (1933-2001}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2023}}
{{Use British English|date=November 2023}}
{{Infobox horseracing personality
|name = Tom Johnston Jr.
|image = Tom Johnston greyhound trainer.png
|caption =
|occupation = Greyhound Trainer
|birth_place =
|birth_date = {{birth date|1933|02|05}}
|death_date = {{death date and age|2001|10|20|1933|02|05}}
|career wins =
|race =
Classic/Feature wins:
Scottish Greyhound Derby
(1963, 1964)
Cesarewitch
(1964, 1966)
Oaks
(1974, 1978)
St Leger
(1979)
Gold Collar
(1963)
|awards = 2 x UK Champion trainer
British & European record holder with Westpark Mustard
|honours =
|horses =
| }}
Thomas Johnston Jr. (1933–2001) was a British greyhound trainer. He was twice UK Champion trainer in 1963 and 1972.
Profile
Johnston's kennels were based at Stilliters Farm on Moulsoe Road in Cranfield, Bedfordshire. In 1963 he took over the kennels after moving from Scotland. His father Tom Johnston Sr. was the winning trainer of the 1928 English Greyhound Derby){{cite web|url=http://find.galegroup.com/ttda/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=TTDA&userGroupName=oxfshlib&tabID=T003&docPage=article&searchType=BasicSearchForm&docId=CS67575550&type=multipage&contentSet=LTO&version=1.0|title=Results|publisher=Times [London, England] 30 July 1928: 4. The Times Digital Archive}} {{cite web|url=http://www.greyhound-data.com/d?r=2562|title=1928|publisher=Greyhound Data}} {{cite book|last=Dack|first=Barrie|title=Greyhound Derby, the first 60 years, page 54 & 55|year=1990|publisher=Ringpress Books|isbn=0-948955-36-8}} and trained greyhounds on the coursing fields for Robert Jardine many years before oval track racing arrived to the United Kingdom.{{cite news|title=Monthly Greyhound Star (Remember When) October edition|year=2012|newspaper=Greyhound Star}}
Racing career
He was a leading trainer for over a decade during the 1960s and 1970s and won the Scottish Greyhound Derby in 1963 and 1964.{{cite book|last=Genders|first=Roy|title=The Greyhound and Racing Greyhound|year=1975|publisher=Page Brothers (Norwich)|isbn=0-85020-0474}} He ran out of West Ham Stadium until 1969 before joining Wembley Stadium where he trained until his retirement.{{cite book|last=Hobbs|first=Jonathan|title=Greyhound Annual 2008|year=2008|publisher=Raceform|isbn=978-1-905153-534}}
He trained Westpark Mustard who broke the British and European record by winning twenty consecutive races in 1974.{{cite book|title=The National Greyhound Racing Club Book of Greyhound Racing|year=1990|publisher=Pelham Books/Stephen Greene Press|isbn=0-7207-1804-X}}
He died in 2001 aged 68.