Reams of Verse

Reams of Verse
Racing colours of Khalid Abdulla
Sire	Nureyev
Grandsire	Northern Dancer
Dam	Modena
Damsire	Roberto
Sex	Mare
Foaled	23 April 1994
Country	United States
Colour	Chestnut
Breeder	Juddmonte Farms
Owner	Khalid Abdulla
Trainer	Henry Cecil
Record	9: 5-1-1
Earnings	£335,782
Major wins
May Hill Stakes (1996) Fillies' Mile (1996) Musidora Stakes (1997) Epsom Oaks (1997)
Honours
Timeform rating 121

Reams of Verse (23 April 1994 – 2009) was an American-bred, British-trained Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare best known for winning the Epsom Oaks in 1997. In a racing career which lasted from July 1996 to October 1997 the filly ran nine times and won five races. Reams of Verse was one of the leading European two-year-old fillies of 1996 when she won three of her four races, including the May Hill Stakes at Doncaster and the Fillies' Mile at Ascot. She was unplaced in the 1000 Guineas the following spring but then won the Musidora Stakes at York and the Classic Oaks over one and a half miles at Epsom. She was beaten in her two remaining races, finishing fourth in the Yorkshire Oaks and third in the Sun Chariot Stakes.

Reams of Verse was a chestnut mare with a white star and one white sock, bred in Kentucky by her owner Khalid Abdulla's Juddmonte Farms. Reams of Verse was sired by the disqualified 2000 Guineas winner Nureyev out of the Roberto mare Modena. Apart from Reams of Verse, Nureyev sired the winners of at least forty-five Group One/Grade I including Peintre Celebre, Spinning World, Zilzal, Stravinsky and Miesque. His career as a stallion has been described as "outstanding". Modena had previously produced the Eclipse Stakes winner Elmaamul and was a half-sister to Zaizafon, the dam of the 2000 Guineas winner Zafonic. Another, half-sister, Midsummer, produced the racemare Midday, the winner of six Group One races.