Exploring the people, history and issues that shaped British horse racing. .
I remember Saturday February 17th 1990 vividly. I attended Newcastle with my old boss, who was a huge Point-to-Point fan, and he advised me to lump on Jelupe in the Eider Chase. I did just that, and he obliged at 13/2. Not only that, but I backed four winners on the card, landed the Placepot, and got a lift back to York in bookie Laurie Dolan’s Roller! Possibly my best ever day at the races. I was only 20 years old!
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.