Mill Reef

TOM MORLEY, TRAINER Favorite:  It's very rare that your family own, breed and train the winner of a Group 1 at Royal Ascot. But when Celeric (GB) (Mtoto {GB}) won the 1997 Ascot Gold Cup having been bred by my Uncle Christopher Spence, owned by he and my father, and trained by my uncle David Morley then to me there can be no bigger favourite. He was the horse that got me hooked, the best day out from school in the world was being able to go to Ascot that...

The Story of Mill Reef By John Oaksey On the first evening of decreed isolation this week, I joked to my husband that he was fortunate to be in lockdown with me. "Well, at least we have the animals," he replied, unreassuringly. We do indeed, and we also have a house full of books, many of them, unsurprisingly, about racing and breeding. Over the next few weeks we will be encouraging TDN readers to share their favourite racing book with us. I'll start off with mine, and if you'd like...