Exploring the people, history and issues that shaped British horse racing. .
Saturday April 13th 1974 was a very busy day, with Kempton’s Rosebery meeting taking centre stage alongside Redcar and Doncaster on the flat. The late season jumping cards at Carlisle, Newton Abbot, Plumpton, Southwell and Towcester warrant closer inspection, with some interesting names appearing 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.