Her dam Leap Lively, also bred and owned by Mellon, won the Fillies' Mile in 1980 and finished third to Blue Wind in the following year's Epsom Oaks.

Ridden by Pat Eddery, Forest Flower finished strongly, but failed to overtake her rival and was beaten a short head.

[8] After a six-week break, Forest Flower ran in the Group Two Mill Reef Stakes (a race named after her owner's most famous horse) at Newbury.

Ridden by Ives, she started the 4/7 favourite against eight colts and became the first filly to win the race, beating Shady Heights comfortably by half a length.

Forest Flower's final race of the season saw her face Minstrella for the third time in the Group One Cheveley Park Stakes at Newmarket on 1 October.

John Reid, the rider of Minstrella, immediately lodged an objection, but the racecourse stewards ruled that the interference had been accidental and left the result unaltered.

It was intended that she would begin her three-year-old season in the Fred Darling Stakes at Newbury in April, but she was withdrawn from the race on account of the soft ground.

[4] After her win at the Curragh, Forest Flower suffered a recurrence of her health problems and missed a rematch with Milligram at Royal Ascot after she was found to be running a temperature.

[8] Despite her restricted campaign in 1987, Forest Flower was again rated 127 by Timeform and was the fifth-highest three-year-old filly in the International Classification behind Miesque, Indian Skimmer, Milligram and Unite.

[13] She had modest success as a broodmare, producing at least three minor winners from seven known foals: Forest Flower was retired from breeding in 2002 and was euthanised at Brushwood Farm on 10 February 2011 at the age of twenty-seven.