Don’t be fooled into thinking that small fields over jumps are a new issue, as a look back at Wetherby and Ascot in the Daily Mirror – Saturday 29 October 1983 – will testify. Worcester fared slightly better, while Newmarket had a healthy looking card on the flat.
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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.
Ascot on 29 October 1983 was not televised due to strike action at the BBC with their OB staff originally the Charlie Hall was to be on BBC but that same strike meant it was on ITV