TIMES SPORT UNSEEN

Capturing thrills and spills of Grand National in black and white

Kick off your heels — like one punter did — and enjoy Marc Aspland and Bradley Ormesher present their favourite photographs from their visit to Aintree

TIMES PHOTOGRAPHER MARC ASPLAND
Marc Aspland
The Times

Marc writes Bradley and I have covered perhaps more than three decades of Grand National meetings at Aintree racecourse and we both thoroughly enjoyed our three days together at the most famous steeplechase in the world last week. I have converted my images to black and white as when we both started we used 35mm cameras and black and white film. We can debate which has the more impact — digital colour or black and white — but what we have tried to show in this unseen gallery is there are still a wide range of pictures to be captured both on and off the racecourse.

TIMES PHOTOGRAPHER MARC ASPLAND

In the picture above, taken from the jump side of a steeplechase fence during the third race on the