Website/Catalog  (2015)  
 
Registered Name: 'Horflame'
ARS Approved Exhibition Name: Middleborough Football Club
F, mr, 1997, Horner, Heather M.; flowers large, dbl., borne in small clusters, slight fragrance; foliage medium size, reddish bronze, glossy; prickles some; upright, medium (60 cm.) growth
[Alpha × (Old Master × Southampton)]. Introductions: Battersby Roses

Book  (19 Apr 2000)  Page(s) 230.  
 
'HORflame', F, mr, 1997; (Middlesborough Football Club); description; (Alpha X (Old Master X Southampton); Horner, Heather M.

Magazine  (1999)  Page(s) 19. Vol 93, part 1.  Includes photo(s).
 
Avril's Day. ....Avril is the wife of Eric Stainthorpe of Battersby Roses on the North Yorkshire moors. ....friends, Heather and Colin Horner, who often send unnamed seedlings to the North East, eventually came up trumps. A small Hybrid Tea rose bred by Heather from the cut flower rose 'Alpha' x ('Southampton' x 'Old Master') increased Avril's blood pressure even more. This was to be her rose to be named for her team Middlesbrough Football Club.....

Photo: Avril Stainthorpe, Heather Horner, and Brian Robson with 'Middlesbrough Football Club Rose'.