Exploring the people, history and issues that shaped British horse racing. .
If 1983 was the best, the 1984 Cheltenham Festival comes a close second. Memorable for the triumphs of Dawn Run and Burrough Hill Lad, the meeting featured the cream of that season’s crop of National Hunt stars. As usual this week, the PDFs of the newspaper pages are provided as a free download.
Daily Mirror Racing 13-03-1984a
Daily Mirror Racing 13-03-1984b
Daily Mirror Racing 14-03-1984a
Daily Mirror Racing 14-03-1984b
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.