​Ian Balding, who has died aged 87, was the trainer of Mill Reef, one of the greatest racehorses of the past half-century. Mill Reef ran in the famous black and gold colours of the ...

This week marks 50 years since Mill Reef won the Derby, during a spectacular Classic campaign. Kate Johnson charts the career and astonishing survival of the “little horse with a big heart” “HE was a ...

Geoff Lewis, who has died aged 89, reached the pinnacle of his career as a jockey in 1971, when he rode Mill Reef to win the Derby, Eclipse, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes and the Prix de l ...

Ian Balding pays tribute to the best horse he ever trained as he recalls the life and career of the great Mill Reef, one of the most popular racehorses of all time, who was born 50 years ago this year ...

BETTER than Nijinsky II, Englishmen were saying. Four days before the race, one player felt so strong about this that he was able to carry 14,000 pounds into William Hill's betting shop and place the ...

Geoff Lewis, the great Welsh jockey known for his success with Mill Reef died on 27 August, aged 89. Geoff was born in Talgarth in 1935 and, after the end of World War II, he and his family moved to ...

The Mill Reef is no longer the sire-making race it once was and its Group 2 status is starting to look questionable. In years gone by we would see future champion sprinters and milers using Newbury’s ...

It’s usually some while after they’ve been retired before even the best horses get to have a race named after them – Frankel is still awaiting that honour, for example – but in Mill Reef’s case he was ...

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