Exploring the people, history and issues that shaped British horse racing. .
Racing Mirror 02-02-80The horrible winter of 1979/80 decimated the racing programme, but light was emerging from the gloom with two excellent cards from Sandown and Stratford on Saturday 2 February 1980. Wonderful news that Bob Champion had received the all-clear after his cancer battle just added to the positive mood for the future.
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.