Homeward Bound was a "lightly-framed" chestnut mare with a small white star bred by her owner Foster Robinson at his Wicken Parn Stud near Wolverton in Buckinghamshire.

[3] On her first start of her second campaign, Homeward Bound contested the Princess Elizabeth Stakes over one mile at Epsom Racecourse in April and won from Feather Bed and Rose Rock.

Ridden by the talented but eccentric[5] jockey Greville Starkey Homeward Bound won by two lengths from Windmill Girl with La Bamba a neck away in third.

The form of the race was subsequently franked when Windmill Girl won the Ribblesdale Stakes and La Bamba took the Prix Jacques le Marois.

She produced twelve foals and five winners: In 1964 Homeward Bound was given a rating of 126 by the independent Timeform organisation, making her three pounds inferior to La Bamba who was their top-rated three-year-old filly.