Exploring the people, history and issues that shaped British horse racing. .
I’m going to finish the weekend with cards from a weekend that is by now probably familiar with regular readers. I make no apologies, as this has always been one of my favourite Saturdays of the year. We’ve looked at 1982 and 1983, so today we go back to Saturday January 24th 1976. I hope you’ve enjoyed this shameless steeplechasing nostalgia indulgence as much as I have.
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.