Exploring the people, history and issues that shaped British horse racing. .
Saturday February 2nd 1991, and an example of how the quality of the Daily Mirror’s racing coverage had declined by managing to cram an entire Saturday into less than two pages. However, the sport itself was decent, and if my memory serves me well I was at Wetherby that day – when there was a future superstar in the opener – no doubt coming home on the bus with the other passengers wondering why there was a shirtless young man sitting at the back!
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.