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The Mill Reef Stakes is a Group 2 flat horse race in Great Britain open to two-year-olds. It is run at Newbury over a distance of 6 furlongs (1,207 metres), and it is scheduled to take place each year in September.
Mill Reef was given a rating of 141 by Timeform and is listed at no. 4 in the greatest racehorses of the twentieth century. The Mill Reef Stakes at Newbury is named in his honour. The following is inscribed on the plinth beneath his statue at the National Stud: Swift as a bird I flew down many a course. Princes, Lords, Commoners all sang my praise.
Ribchester (foaled 25 March 2013) is an Irish-bred, British-trained Thoroughbred racehorse. As a two-year-old in 2015 he finished second in the Gimcrack Stakes on his second racecourse appearance and then won the Group Two Mill Reef Stakes.
Shirley Heights was a bay horse bred by his owners, the father and son team of Charles Wood, 2nd Earl of Halifax, and Lord Irwin.He was one of many successful racehorses sired by Mill Reef, an American-bred horse who won the Epsom Derby, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes and Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe in 1971.
Sadly, a week later and just ten days before the Eclipse Stakes, the race billed as the Race of the Century, Ian Balding, trainer of Mill Reef, declared that Mill Reef was suffering from the virus, and was withdrawn. On 30 August Mill Reef, one of the truly great racehorses of any generation, suffered a serious, life-threatening injury on the ...
Mon Fils (1970–1979) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and sire, best known for winning the classic 2000 Guineas in 1973. As a two-year-old, Mon Fils won two of his seven races including the Mill Reef Stakes.
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In the Mill Reef Stakes at Newbury on 21 September Stalker started at odds of 10/1 in a nine-runner field headed by Green Desert. Mercer sent him into the lead from the start and he led for most of the way before being overtaken in the closing stages and beaten three quarters of a length by Luqman.