Study for a Start at Newmarket

Newmarket race course was considered by Munnings to be 'the most beautiful course in the world', and is the scene of some of his most dramatic sporting paintings. He was a regular observer at the course where he kept his own horse box for a studio, and was even allowed by the Clerk of the Course to drive his car to the starting post. He spent many hours recording the starts of the races which he found more fascinating than the finishes. He did not tire of the groupings and and later wrote that 'each start is a fresh picture for me, as they have been, meeting after meeting, year after year'.
(A.J. Munnings, The Finish, Suffolk, 1952, p.207).