Times Archive

[Harbinger]

The Times have put up an archive of every issue from 1785 to 1985 on their website.

They reckon there's 20m articles on there, and it's all free to search and view. The amount of racing coverage on there must be absolutely massive. For example, Sea Bird's Derby:

http://archive.timesonline.co.uk/tol/viewA...erykeywordText=

and that's just the tip of the tip of the tip of the iceberg...

 

[SteveM]

Thanks Gareth. This would have saved me a ton of work over the years. Just looked up Tudor Minstrel's Guineas, which has details difficult to find elsewhere.

 

[Guest_]

Not going to get much work done today...

 

[Flagship uberalles]

Originally posted by Galileo@Jun 16 2008, 10:59 AM
Not going to get much work done today...

TODAY??

Thanks for the link.

 

[Harbinger]

Make the most of it - it's now saying that it's free "for an introductory period".

 

[Sara]

Great thanks! - never mind the racing - I'm going t download all the stuff on my GT Gd Father

 

[rorydelargy]

Fantastic ~ I'm looking at tons of old racing stories.

 

[imagine]

I've been looking at all the old reports on Shergar - and have also discovered that my family have never, ever done anything worth mentioning in The Times!

 

[SteveM]

...that's almost worth mentioning in itself.

 

[Harbinger]

They've helpfully pulled out their report on Sagaro's third Gold Cup:

http://archive.timesonline.co.uk/tol/viewA...alTopicId=false

Note that the same concerns over stayers not being commercially attractive stallions was just as prevalent back then!

 

[Venusian]

Originally posted by Gareth Flynn@Jun 19 2008, 11:10 PM
They've helpfully pulled out their report on Sagaro's third Gold Cup:

http://archive.timesonline.co.uk/tol/viewA...alTopicId=false

Note that the same concerns over stayers not being commercially attractive stallions was just as prevalent back then!

Yes, it's not that recent a trend!

George Lambton wrote much the same thing around 1920 in his wonderful book, "Men and Horses I have known".

 

[Harbinger]

This one made me laugh:

Duke of Norfolk bans 'hot pants' at Royal Ascot.

http://archive.timesonline.co.uk/tol/viewA...erykeywordText=