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Mill Reef (23 February 1968 – 2 February 1986) was an American-bred, British-trained Thoroughbred racehorse and sire.In a three-year career from 1970 to 1972, he won twelve of fourteen races and finished second in the other two.
The event is named after Mill Reef, a highly successful racehorse in the early 1970s. He was trained at Kingsclere, located several miles from Newbury. The Mill Reef Stakes replaced a similar race, the Crookham Stakes, in 1972. The winner of the inaugural running, Mon Fils, went on to win the following year's 2,000 Guineas.
As a two-year-old, Mon Fils won two of his seven races, including the Mill Reef Stakes. In 1973 he won the 2000 Guineas on soft ground, but ran poorly when strongly fancied for the Derby . His racing career was ended by injury in the autumn of 1973 and he was retired to stud, where he made no impact as a sire of winners.
The 1971 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe was a horse race held at Longchamp on Sunday 3 October 1971. It was the 50th running of the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe.. The winner was Mill Reef, a three-year-old colt trained in England by Ian Balding and ridden by Geoff Lewis.
Diamond Shoal was a bay horse with a white sock on his left hind leg bred by his owner Paul Mellon. [1] He was sired by Mellon's stallion Mill Reef and American-bred horse who won the Epsom Derby, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes and Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe in 1971.
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Brigadier Gerard was given an end-of-year Timeform rating of 141 in 1971, making him the equal highest rated horse of the year, alongside Mill Reef. He topped the Timeform ratings in 1972 with 144, the joint second highest figure at that time given for a flat racehorse, equal with Tudor Minstrel and one pound behind Sea Bird .
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