Exploring the people, history and issues that shaped British horse racing. .
Saturday April 11th 1981. A week after Aintree and it was time to go to Ayr for the Scottish National. Sea Pigeon had finished last in the Scottish Champion Hurdle the day before the big race, which was filled with lots of northern stalwarts. Newbury and Beverley raced on the flat, with the other National Hunt cards being a bumper nine-race feast at Huntingdon, and also at Stratford.
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.