Exploring the people, history and issues that shaped British horse racing. .
A mundane weekday with cards from Southwell and Wolverhampton today automatically means all-weather action. However in 1991 there was no sand at Dunstall Park, and National Hunt racing was still the order of the day, even on the Fibresand at Southwell. Here are the Daily Express cuttings from January 7th 1991.
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.