Eleven televised races for couch dwellers to savour on Saturday 12 August 1972. Four contests from the Summer Cup card at Newbury on the BBC, plus seven races from Ripon and Wolverhampton on ITV on a typical “Seventies Saturday”.
Daily Mirror – Saturday 12 August 1972
BySteve
12 August 2026
Daily Mirror 12-08-72
BySteve
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.