Fifty years on, Attfield still savours his first Plate with Norcliffe

Fifty years on, Attfield still savours his first Plate with Norcliffe

Each photograph, whether vivid in colour or black and white, frayed and softened by the years, carried Roger Attfield back to one of the most treasured moments of a magnificent life in horse racing. It was not something he had planned, to open the box of pictures and newspaper clippings from his early Thoroughbred days, and in doing so, taking himself back to his formative years as a young horseman. Regardless of what prompted the moment, Attfie…