Mill Reef

Tags: Race Horse.

Mill Reef (1968–1986) was a Champion Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. He was bred in the United States but was trained in the United Kingdom throughout his racing career which lasted from 1970 to 1972. Mill Reef won twelve of his fourteen races and finished second in the other two. He was an outstanding two-year-old in 1970 and proved even better at three winning the Epsom Derby the Eclipse Stakes the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes and the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe.

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award

Cartier Racing Award, Timeform, Leading sire in Great Britain and Ireland, English_3-Yr-Old_Champion_Colt, English_Champion_Older_Horse

breeder

Paul Mellon

colour

Bay (horse)

country

United States

damsire

Princequillo

grandsire

Nasrullah (horse)

honours

Newmarket Suffolk, Statue, Mill Reef Stakes, The_Racing_Post's_Top_100_European_Racehorses_of_the_20th_Century

owner

Paul Mellon

race

Coronation Cup, Dewhurst Stakes, Eclipse Stakes, Gimcrack Stakes, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes, Epsom Derby, Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, Prix Ganay, Coventry Stakes, Greenham Stakes

sex

Stallion

sire

Never Bend

trainer

Ian Balding