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    The art of scrapbooking

    Mar 17, 2022 6 minutes
    WRITTEN BY LUCY HIGGINSON
    PHOTOGRAPHY BY SIMON BUCK & SARAH FARNSWORTH

    If you are one of those who finally dug out photographs, programmes, gamecards, orders of service and racing badges to paste into scrapbooks during lockdown – or bought the scrapbook, but got no further – tip your hat to racehorse trainer Sir Mark Prescott. He has compiled one annually for 54 years.

    “I have seven days in January when I go to a very nice hotel in the Canaries and do three or four hours of scrapbooking a day and nothing else,” he explains. “I absolutely hate it, but having done it for so long you have to keep it up.”

    Thank God he does; the books are wonderful pieces of sporting history. Sir Mark was motivated by his early employer Sid Kernick – a hunt servant turned journeyman jockey who managed to unkink multitudes of horses – “a remarkable horseman and my hero”. But his blank looks

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