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Digitisation of Scrapbooks for the Famous Thoroughbred Mill Reef

We are currently about to work on a very interesting order from the Oak Spring Garden Foundation in Virginia, USA who are working on a film and project to commemoriate Mill Reef, one of Paul Mellon's, their founder's husbands famous thoroughbreds, Mill Reef, winning horse of the year in 1971.  

The wife of Mill Reef's UK trainer, made wonderful scrapbooks, filled with photographs and newspaper clippings that we have been commissioned to digitise to high quality Archival TIFF files, with our archival processing applied.

If we can support you with your archival digitisation projects, please do not hestiate to contact us:  cheryl@oxfordduplicationcentre.com


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mill_Reef

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. He won both his starts as a four-year-old before his racing career was ended by injury.

He was an exact contemporary of another British-trained champion, the English-bred Brigadier Gerard who defeated him in their only racecourse meeting in the 2000 Guineas. As the race was over Brigadier Gerard's optimum distance of one mile, the relative merits of the two colts continued to be the subject of debate.



Mill Reef
Mill Reef at Rokeby.jpg
This statue of Mill Reef stands in the center of Rokeby Stables in Upperville, Virginia
SireNever Bend
GrandsireNasrullah
DamMilan Mill
DamsirePrincequillo
SexStallion
Foaled1968
CountryUnited States
ColourBay
BreederPaul Mellon
OwnerPaul Mellon Colours: Black, gold cross and stripe on cap.
TrainerIan Balding
Record14:12-2-0
Earnings£309,225
Major wins
Coventry Stakes (1970)
Gimcrack Stakes (1970)
Dewhurst Stakes (1970)
Greenham Stakes (1971)
Epsom Derby (1971)
Eclipse Stakes (1971)
K. George VI & Q. Elizabeth Stakes (1971)
Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe (1971)
Prix Ganay (1972)
Coronation Cup (1972)
Awards
English 3-Yr-Old Champion Colt (1971)
European Horse of the Year (1971)
English Champion Older Horse (1972)
Timeform rating: 141
Leading sire in GB & Ireland (1978, 1987)
Honours
#4 - 20th Century's Top 100 European Racehorses
Life-size statue at The National Stud, Newmarket
Mill Reef Stakes at Newbury Racecourse
Last updated on 9 June 2009
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