MPX5130438: Mill Reef was back on his feet again last night after undergoing a four-hour operation on a chipped cannon bone in his left foreleg yesterday afternoon. The successful operation was carried out by Edwin James Roberts, chief orthopaedic surgeon of the Newmarket Equine Research Station, and carried out in a specially-constructed theatre at Ian Balding's Kingslere stables September 1972 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5130471: Pre World War Two - Pre Second World War - The local girls of the ATS (Auxiliary Territorial Service) , pictured at camp in Northumberland, sometime in the summer before that fateful September of 1939. Molly Henderson is pictured in the front row (left), c.: June 1939 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5130386: In the Paddock. The American-owned horse, Battleship, and Bruce Hobbs, being led into the paddock at Aintree, after winning the Grand National. Bruce Hobbs, who is 17 years old, is the youngest jockey and his horse was the smallest ever to pass the post first. March 1938 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images