InterviewOllie Sangster
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Ollie Sangster: 'I want success or failure to be on me - not my name or some distant memories'
The first-season trainer talks training, Wesley Ward and Manton memories with Lambourn correspondent James Burn
James BurnLambourn correspondent
Ollie Sangster: trainer has recorded ten winnersCredit: Alan Crowhurst
If anyone is entering a training career with their eyes wide open, it is Ollie Sangster.
His surname probably sounds familiar. The 26-year-old's late grandfather Robert was a pioneer who, along with Vincent O'Brien and John Magnier, helped shape the European racing and breeding landscapes in the 1970s and 1980s.
"Unfortunately, I have very few memories of him, although I wish I could say differently," Sangster says of his game-changing relative, who died in 2004 but left a lasting legacy on the sport.
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