Array proves a poignant winner of the Mill Reef for Balding family

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The Mill Reef trophy will return to Kingsclere courtesy of Juddmonte’s Array and Oisin Murphy.

The Group Two race is named in homage to the 1971 Derby winner, who was trained by Ian Balding to an astonishing run of successes. Balding’s son Andrew took over the reins at the family’s Kingsclere base in 2003 and despite countless other successes, the race named after the yard’s hero has never gone the way of the younger Balding.

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