Exploring the people, history and issues that shaped British horse racing. .
Daily Mirror Racing 13-08-90Daily 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 over the jumps. Leicester and Thirsk followed up with evening meetings to round off a modest day of action.
Nothing dramatic, nothing headline-grabbing—just the daily rhythm of the turf, ticking along under the August sun.
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.