Exploring the people, history and issues that shaped British horse racing. .
Yesterday I posted cuttings from the first day of the weekend, and today we look at Day 2 of the Sandown (including a fantastic Mildmay-Cazalet line-up) and Haydock meetings – plus Warwick – from Saturday January 10th 1981.
Your challenge is to find two Grand National winners and a Cheltenham Gold Cup winner among the declarations.
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.