Exploring the people, history and issues that shaped British horse racing. .
Our last Cheltenham flashback this week looks at the ultra competitive 1982 festival. Big fields were the order every day, despite the heavy going. A record field of 22 lined up for Thursday’s Gold Cup. The PDFs are once again provided for you to keep.
Daily Mirror Racing 16-03-1982a
Daily Mirror Racing 16-03-1982b
Daily Mirror Racing 17-03-1982a
Daily Mirror Racing 17-03-1982b
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.