Steve Cauthen made the right choice when electing to ride Reference Point for Henry Cecil in the 1987 Derby at Epsom. Reference Point was a strong, compact colt bred at his owner’s Cliveden Stud which also bred his dam and grandam. He was by the Derby winner Mill Reef and became the second of that horse’s sons to win the same race after Shirley Heights in 1978. Carlisle and Ripon were the other two cards on the day.
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The finish of the 1987 Derby, won by 'Reference Point', Steve Cauthen up.
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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.