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Alice Haynes stuck to her guns when her school's careers advisor tried to send her to a supermarket to stack shelves for work experience, and she insisted she wanted to work with horses.
Her first three runners at Royal Ascot this week - Remarkable Force (Coventry Stakes on Tuesday), Lady Bullet (Albany Stakes, Friday) and Josies Kid (Palace of Holyroodhouse handicap, Friday) - less than 18 months after she started as a trainer are an indication of the steely determination that runs through Haynes.
'They wanted to send me to a supermarket. They thought that you were never going to make a career out of horses,' said Ascot-born Haynes, who celebrated her 31st birthday on Saturday.
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'I wanted to go into racing and be a jockey. I had my mind set and that is what I am, a strong-minded individual. If I set my sights on a target I try my best to get it. In the end it wasn't much of a fight. I just said I was not going.
'I did Pony Club but was not from a racing background, So I wrote a letter to Henrietta Knight. She wrote back and I went
