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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.
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.
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.
Mill George is the foal of Mill Reef, a racehorse with multiple stakes wins, and Miss Charisma. [2] His first race was on February 5, 1978, where he came in 7th place at Santa Anita. [1] Mill George raced three more races, two of which were wins at Santa Anita and Hollywood Park, because suffering a fracture.
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Race of the Century, Ian Balding, trainer of Mill Reef, declared that Mill Reef was suffering from the virus, and was withdrawn.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 ...
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.
The distances of the races are expressed in miles, furlongs and yards. In 2017 the BHA concluded a racecourse survey and remeasurement which led to some racecourses changing the exact distance of some races, or moving race start points to fit with advertised race distances. [1]
He was one of many major winners sired by the American-bred Epsom Derby winner Mill Reef who was the Leading sire in Great Britain and Ireland in 1978 and 1987. [ 3 ] Doyoun was sent into training with Michael Stoute , who had trained the Aga Khan's Derby winners Shergar and Shahrastani , at his Beech Hurst Stables in Newmarket, Suffolk .