Exploring the people, history and issues that shaped British horse racing. .
Monday April 26th 1976 was nothing special quality wise, but was notable for having two meetings that couldn’t happen today – namely Warwick on the flat, and Folkestone, which hosted a Hunter Chase card. Bath on the flat, and huge fields at Hexham, including a future Grand National winner, completed the day.
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.