Early days for Burrough Hill Lad at Leicester, and for Ekbalco at Stockton on Tuesday 8 January 1980. Fontwell was the third meeting on a very interesting day’s racing.
Daily Mirror – Tuesday 8 January 1980
BySteve
8 January 2025
DM 08-01-80
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.
Great to see theses old clippings. I was a 7lb claimer to the great Gordon W Richards. I rode my first winner for him at Teeside Park in November 1974 on a little horse called Napazi, he won again for me in at Teeside Park in 1975.Pacemaker did a article on me in 1975 but I’ve never got to see it and tried for years to find it with no luck yet. Would be great to get a copy to show my grandson. email address is gerrydonaghy1956@gmail.com
Gerard Brendan Donaghy.
Hi Gerry. Glad you like the site. I’m afraid I don’t have Pacemaker magazine. Sorry.