About: Take A Reef

Take A Reef (30 April 1971 – 1989) was an Irish-bred, British-trained Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. Although he never won a major weight-for-age race, his wins in handicaps led to him being controversially rated the best British three-year-old of his generation in 1974. After showing promise as a two-year-old in 1973, when he won two of his six races, Take A Reef made rapid progress in the following year to win the Epsom Handicap, Magnet Cup and Extel Stakes under increasingly heavy weights. His racing career was ended by injury when he was being prepared for a run in the Champion Stakes and he was retired to stud with a record of five wins from ten races. He made very little impact as a breeding stallion and died in Sweden in 1989.