WELL-NAMED HORN REEFS
Horn Beefs,; who ;will' lie making his first appearance in the CJ.C. Welcome Stakes on Saturday, is a two-year-old bay colt by Day Comet from, the Antagonist mare Brave Deed, so -that-he" is: a halfbrother to Zeebrugge, Dojran, ,and Falfc land, all" winners. Like' his relatives he has been appropriately named, for Horn Reefs are the. line of rocks off the coast of Jutland where Beatty attempted to cut off the'retreat of the German lightcruiser, .squadron during . the Battle of Jutland. ■' ■ :. . ! , ■ ' * Horn Keefs will be the only representative of. Sir Charles Clifford in Saturday s two-year-old classic. The well-known blue and' gold chequers have previously been carried\ to success-in-this race by .tomorrow, Winning Way, Battle.Eve (victor of Desert Gold), Moorfowl, ■ j and Childsnlay,- all of whom were owned by Sir CharleYs father, the late Sir George Clifford.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 106, 1 November 1933, Page 8
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