Milligram (horse)

Milligram
Sire	Mill Reef
Grandsire	Never Bend
Dam	One In A Million
Damsire	Rarity
Sex	Mare
Foaled	3 April 1984
Country	United Kingdom
Colour	Chestnut
Breeder	Meon Valley Stud
Owner	Helena Springfield Ltd.
Trainer	Michael Stoute
Record	9: 4-3-0
Major wins
Coronation Stakes (1987) Waterford Crystal Mile (1987) Queen Elizabeth II Stakes (1987)
Awards
Top-rated British-trained miler (1987) Timeform rating: 122 (1986), 130 (1987)

Milligram (foaled 3 April 1984) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare, best known for her win over Miesque and Sonic Lady in the 1987 Queen Elizabeth II Stakes. In a racing career which lasted from September 1986 until November 1987 she ran nine times and won four races. Apart from the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes, she won the Coronation Stakes and Waterford Crystal Mile, as well as finishing second in the Prix Marcel Boussac, 1000 Guineas and Irish 1000 Guineas. She was the highest-rated horse in the United Kingdom over one mile in 1987. Milligram was retired at the end of her three-year-old season and had some success as a broodmare.

Milligram was a "sparely made, workmanlike" chestnut filly with a white star bred by Egon Weinfeld's Meon Valley Stud. She was from one of the last crops of foals sired by Mill Reef, an American-bred horse who won the Epsom Derby, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes, and Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe in 1971. Mill Reef's other offspring included Reference Point, Shirley Heights, Lashkari and Doyoun. Milligram was the fourth foal of One In A Million, the winner of the 1979 1000 Guineas, whose other foals included Someone Special, the dam of One So Wonderful. As a descendant of the broodmare Mitrailleuse, Milligram came from the same branch of Thoroughbred family 16-h which produced the St Leger winner Commanche Run and the Irish Oaks winner Swiftfoot.

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