Victoria Mile

Victoria Mile
Songline winning the 2023 race. Sodashi (left) was the winner of the 2022 race.
ClassGrade 1
LocationTokyo Racecourse, Fuchu, Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Inaugurated2006
Race typeThoroughbred
Websitejapanracing.jp/
Race information
Distance1600 meters
(About 8 furlongs / 1 mile)
SurfaceTurf
TrackLeft-handed
Qualification4-y-o & Up, Fillies & Mares only, Thoroughbreds
Weight56 kg
Purse¥ 281,300,000 (as of 2025)
1st: ¥ 130,000,000
2nd: ¥ 52,000,000
3rd: ¥ 33,000,000

The Victoria Mile (ヴィクトリアマイル (Vikutoria Mairu)) is a Grade 1 flat horse race in Japan for four-year-old and above thoroughbred fillies and mares. Organized by Japan Racing Association, it is run over a distance of 1,600 metres (approximately 1 mile) on the turf at Tokyo Racecourse in May.

The race's name, " Victoria ," comes from the Roman goddess of victory.[1]

Winners

Year
 Winner
 Age
 Jockey
 Trainer
 Owner
 Time
2006 Dance in the Mood 5 Hiroshi Kitamura Kazuo Fujisawa Shadai Race Horse 1:34.0
2007 Koiuta 4 Masami Matsuoka Masashi Okuhira Maekawa Kikaku 1:32.5
2008 Asian Winds 4 Shinji Fujita Hideaki Fujiwara Yoshimi Ota 1:33.7
2009 Vodka 5 Yutaka Take Katsuhiko Sumii Yuzo Tanimizu 1:32.4
2010 Buena Vista 4 Norihiro Yokoyama Hiroyoshi Matsuda Sunday Racing 1:32.4
2011 Apapane 4 Masayoshi Ebina Sakae Kunieda Kaneko Makoto Holdings 1:31.9
2012 Whale Capture 4 Norihiro Yokoyama Kiyotaka Tanaka Ken Shimada 1:32.4
2013 Verxina 4 Hiroyuki Uchida Yasuo Tomomichi Kazuhiro Sasaki 1:32.4
2014 Verxina 5 Hiroyuki Uchida Yasuo Tomomichi Kazuhiro Sasaki 1:32.3
2015 Straight Girl 6 Keita Tosaki Hideaki Fujiwara Toshihiro Hirosaki 1:31.9
2016 Straight Girl 7 Keita Tosaki Hideaki Fujiwara Toshihiro Hirosaki 1:31.5
2017 Admire Lead 4 Christophe Lemaire Naosuke Sugai Riichi Kondo 1:33.9
2018 Jour Polaire 5 Hideaki Miyuki Masato Nishizono G1 Racing 1:32.3
2019 Normcore 4 Damian Lane Kiyoshi Hagiwara Seiichi Iketani 1:30.5
2020 Almond Eye 5 Christophe Lemaire Sakae Kunieda Silk Racing 1:30.6
2021 Gran Alegria 5 Christophe Lemaire Kazuo Fujisawa Sunday Racing 1:31.0
2022 Sodashi 4 Hayato Yoshida Naosuke Sugai Kaneko Makoto Holdings 1:32.2
2023 Songline 5 Keita Tosaki Toru Hayashi Sunday Racing 1:32.2
2024 Ten Happy Rose 6 Akihide Tsumura Daisuke Takayanagi Yasushi Tenpaku 1:31.8
2025 Ascoli Piceno 4 Christophe Lemaire Yoichi Kuroiwa Sunday Racing 1:32.1

See also

References

  1. ^ "２０２４年度第２回東京競馬特別レース名解説" [2024 2nd Tokyo Racecourse Special Race Name Explanation] (PDF) (in Japanese). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2024-04-29.
  1. ^ "ヴィクトリアM". Netkeiba.
  2. ^ "Victoria Mile". Netkeiba.
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