Roy Nockolds (1911-1979) 29TH MAY 1954 THE FIRST MOTOR RACE MEETING AT AINTREE WITH STIRLING MOSS LEADING signed and dated 1954, watercolour heightene

Roy Nockolds (1911-1979) 29TH MAY 1954 THE FIRST MOTOR RACE MEETING AT AINTREE WITH STIRLING MOSS LEADING signed and dated 1954, watercolour heightened with gouache, framed and glazed, image size 53 by 44.5cm., 21 by 17?in. This painting captures an event unique in more ways than one. The races at this inaugural Aintree meeting were run in an anti-clockwise direction, the same as the steeplechase course. By the second meeting in October, the direction of travel had been changed to a more normal clockwise.