Exploring the people, history and issues that shaped British horse racing. .
Can you imagine the Cheltenham Gold Cup favourite, having already had five races this season, having a final warm-up by giving away lumps of weight in a handicap at Hereford less than two weeks before the big one? No, because it doesn’t happen anymore, but it did on Saturday March 5th 1983. Newbury, Haydock and Market Rasen completed the day which saw many festival hopes in action.
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.