Some good quality racing at Sandown and York on Friday 13 June 1980.
DM 13-06-80
BySteve
Steve Bradley is the man behind this project, an unashamedly nostalgic website dedicated to horse racing’s golden days of the past, featuring vintage racecards, clippings and news stories plucked from the newspapers of the day. A devotee of horse racing’s halcyon days from the 1960s to the 1990s, Steve caught the racing bug as a small boy living near Catterick racecourse, where he was lucky enough to see the great Red Rum in action in the 1970s. He has undertaken private research commissions for various figures within the racing industry. Away from racing he enjoys spending time with his retired greyhound, bar billiards, music, TV, films, reading and travel.
I want to place on record my thanks to steve for finding the answer to a question I posed.
A 91 year old gentlemen, who was a good friend of my late father, claimed that as a 13 year old boy, he travelled from Bridlington to Beverley on his own to see Harry Wragg and Doug Smith ride. He said it was 1946. I promissed to see if I could validify the story.
I contacted Steve and within 48 hours he had produced the results from the meeting in May 1946, which confirmed both Harry Wragg and Doug Smith had ridden doubles!
Many Thanks for a most impressive service
Roger Elliott
June 2025