The 90th anniversary of this great race took place on Sunday 12th October when 21 ran. The winner, Simon, was a 9 year old ridden by Vlastimil Knapek.

VELKA PARDUBICKA 1980

The Youtube website and bank of film clips provide excellent coverage of the Velka Pardubicka. The link below is a 11 minute 49 second clip of the Velka
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCtxv9ug0mQ

I am very grateful to Miloslav Nehyba for the image below, part of his extensive collection of Velka photographs.Every effort has been made to trace copyright holders of all scans on this site and anyone who feels their copyright has been breached should contact the webmaster so that the image can be removed.