Daily Mirror Racing – Saturday 31 August 1974
Historic horse racing from Saturday 31 August 1974. Televised flat cards from Kempton, Chester and Ripon. Jumps fans at Stratford were treated to an appearance by the great chaser Tingle…
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Historic horse racing from Saturday 31 August 1974. Televised flat cards from Kempton, Chester and Ripon. Jumps fans at Stratford were treated to an appearance by the great chaser Tingle…
Historic Horse racing cards from Sandown and Chester on the flat on Friday 30 August 1985. There was a National Hunt meeting at Perth to complete the day. Download QR
Daily Mirror Racing from Thursday 29 August 1975. The card at Sandown was televised by ITV while Chester was the other meeting on the day. Download QR
Daily Mirror Racing pages from Thursday 28 August 1986. Just the two meetings, but the cards at Beverley and Brighton were competitive enough, with decent sized fields. Download QR
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Racing pages from Tuesday 26 August 1975, and a televised meeting at Epsom. Chepstow, Lingfield and Warwick cards completed the day. Racing geeks will no doubt enjoy browsing through the…
Saturday 25 August 1979 saw meetings on the flat at Ascot, Newmarket, Newcastle and Windsor (eve). Jumping at Market Rasen, Hereford and Cartmel were the other cards. Download QR
Bank Holiday weekend began with a very busy day on the turf on Saturday 24 August 1974, with flat action at Goodwood, Newmarket and Newcastle backed up by jumping at…
Ebor Day at York on Wednesday 23 August 1989. Supporting meetings were at Yarmouth (I wonder what happened to the Michael Barrymore Handicap?), and Fontwell over the sticks. Download QR
Historic horse racing from The Daily Mirror on Ebor Day at York on Wednesday 22 August 1973. Brighton was the supporting flat meeting with jumpers at Devon & Exeter and…
40 years ago today was Ebor Wednesday at York. The other three cards that day were in the south: Yarmouth and an evening meeting at Lingfield, with jumpers at Devon…
The Ebor was always better on a Wednesday. Then again, most things in racing have changed in a depressing way. Yarmouth, and Devon jumpers completed the day. Download QR
Historic Horse Racing archive cards from the opening day of the Ebor meeting at York on Tuesday August 1975. Although the fields weren’t large, quality over quantity was clearly the…
Historic Horse Racing Archive racecards focus on the same weekend of action for the third and final day, as we look at the Daily Mirror pages from Saturday 18 August…
Today’s Historic Horse Racing Archive cards look remarkably similar to those in yesterday’s post. However today’s memories come from the Daily Mirror five years later – Saturday 17 August 1985.…
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Saturday 15 August 1987 saw flat action at Newbury and Ripon, alongside Bangor over the sticks in the afternoon. Then Lingfield, Wolverhampton and jumpers at Market Rasen provided the evening…
Daily Mirror Racing on Thursday 14 August 1975, and lots of action over both codes. A competitive Salisbury card, complemented by Yarmouth and Catterick gave plenty for flat fans to…
Daily Mirror Racing on Monday 13 August 1990 captured a typically British summer scene: Windsor hosted the afternoon’s flat card, while firm ground at Worcester led to very small fields…
Eleven televised races for couch dwellers to savour on Saturday 12 August 1972. Four contests from the Summer Cup card at Newbury on the BBC, plus seven races from Ripon…