b'Acknowledgements Prestel Verlag, MunichLondonNew York 2014. It would be remiss of me not to start at the beginning and acknowledge that I owe thefor the photographs, Marc Aspland/The Times, 2014. biggest debt of gratitude to my mum and dad for their love and support. For Bob Ingramfor the text(s), the individual contributors, 2014. for lending me a 35mm SLR camera to snap away on a trip to the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Mr Paul Delmar at the National Council for the Training of Journalists (NCTJ) in Sheffield, Cover: The 101st running of White Turf, St Moritz, Switzerland, 2008. who has nurtured and guided the raw talent of generations of fine photojournalists. At my first newspaper being a Junior Photographer at the Watford Observer, I had the Prestel Verlag, Munich ever-patient Mike Dellow as the best mentor a young whippersnapper could wish for. A member of Verlagsgruppe Random House GmbH After a quantum-career leap I found myself shoulder-to-shoulder with Chris Smith in the Prestel Verlag darkrooms shared by the awesome photographers of The Times and Sunday Times. I had Neumarkter Strasse 28 studied Chris work with a religious fervour and to be sharing the same touchline, I could 81673 Munich barely say, Hello!.Tel. +49 (0)89 4136-0 There have been many great Editors, Sports Editors and Picture Editors I have been Fax +49 (0)89 4136-2335 blessed to work with at The Times and I am grateful to all for their support. I must www.prestel.de mention the following for clearly defining both me as a photographer and also my career. Prestel Publishing Ltd. The dynamic duo of David Chappell and Keith Blackmore, my first Sport Editors, who 14-17 Wells Street taught me very quickly that I had a lot to learn and I hope I have lived up to their high London W1T 3PD expectations. For Sue Connolly, now Picture Editor at The Times, a great friend and even Tel.+44 (0)20 7323 5004 greater boss.Fax +44 (0)20 7323 0271 For Mr Tim Hallissey, Sports Editor and his team of editors, sub editors and designers at Prestel Publishing The Times who encouraged me to keep producing the bullets so they could fire them! 900 Broadway, Suite 603 For James Harding, Jeremy Griffin and Craig Tregurtha. And to those blunts, the scribblers New York, NY 10003 and journos, the Dukes and Grand Dukes who make up the other half of my working life. Tel. +1 (212) 995-2720 There are many superb writersapologies to those not mentioned, but you will know. Fax +1 (212) 995-2733 I must give a special debt of appreciation to Oliver Holt, Matt Dickinson, Simon Barnes, www.prestel.com Owen Slot, Paul Hayward, John Hopkins, Rick Broadbent, Oliver Kay, Matthew Syed, Graham Hunter, Neil Harman, Lee Clayton and Mike Atherton. Library of Congress Control Number is available; British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data: a catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library; DeutscheThe most difficult task in compiling this list is the risk of omitting many of the superbly gifted Nationalbibliothek holds a record of this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie;photographers I have shared this amazing journey with. I must however give mention to detailed bibliographical data can be found under: www://dnb.d-nb.de my fellow newspaper friends: Andy Hooper, Graham Chadwick, Russell Cheyne, Eddie Keogh, Bradley Ormesher, Graham Hughes, Phil Shepherd-Lewis, Michael Powell, Dave Prestel books are available worldwide. Please contact your nearest bookseller or one ofShopland, Mark Robinson, Kent Gavin, Richard Pelham and Stuart Robinson. For all my the above addresses for information concerning your local distributor. news colleagues both past and present at The Times and to those sports photographers Editorial direction: Lincoln Dexter I hold in such high regard: Simon Bruty, Dylan Martinez, Owen Humphreys, David Design and layout: Michael English Davies, Adrian Dennis, David Rogers, Shaun Botterill, Mark Thompson, Clive Mason, Alex Production: Friederike Schirge Livesey, Lawrence Griffiths, Mark Leech, and Bob Martin. Origination: Reproline Genceller, Mnchen For my friend Jonny Wilkinsonthanks for the fun times!Printing and binding: Neografia, a.s.Printed in Slovakia For the support and generosity of my friends at Canon, specifically, Katie Simmonds, Mike Owen and Frankie Jim. A special thanks to my eternally reassuring agent David Luxton and Verlagsgruppe Random House FSC N001967 our friends at Prestel Publishing. The FSC-certified paper Profisilk has been supplied by Igepa, Germany I can proudly hand this book to my children because of the support and dedication of my friend and designer Mike English.And finally I dedicate this book to Audrey for her unbelievable support, sacrifice and understanding that my job has been my life, but she is my passion.ISBN 978-3-7913-8116-9PRESTELMUNICHLONDONNEW YORK'