TOMORROW’S Group 1 Victoria Mile at Tokyo Racecourse sees a top class field of older fillies and mares assembled.

Previous winners include Japanese stars Vodka, Buena Vista and more recently Almond Eye and Gran Alegria.

The race will see the return of the best three-year old filly of 2020, Daring Tact, after a long layoff through injury

Daring Tact, by Epiphaneia and now a five-year-old, returns to the racecourse for the first time since she finished third in the Group 1 Queen Elizabeth II Cup in Hong Kong in April 2021.

Her Group 1 victories in 2020 in the Oka Sho, Yushun Himba and Shuka Sho completed the Japanese Fillies’ Triple Crown. She also finished third in the 2020 Japan Cup to other Triple Crown winners Almond Eye and the then undefeated Contrail.

The white filly Sodashi bids for glory once again and tries to notch her first win since last year’s Group 2 Sapporo Kinen. She last ran in the Group 1 February Stakes at Tokyo over a mile on dirt and finished a very creditable third. Trainer Naosuke Sugai reported she she has been training well.

The five-year-old Lei Papale by Deep Impact was second last time in the Group 1 Osaka Hai over 10 furlongs at Hanshin in April. Lei Papale will be ridden by Yuga Kawada, who won last Sunday’s Group 1 NHK Mile Cup.

Resistencia’s sixth last time over six furlongs in the Group 1 Takamatsunomiya Kinen at Chukyo was not too far behind the winner and she finished second in the Group 1 NHK Mile Cup over the Tokyo mile in 2020.

The Kizuna filly Fine Rouge was second in the Group 3 at Tokyo over a mile in February, and before that she was also runner-up in last year’s Group 1 Shuka Sho over a mile at Hanshin last October. She has only been unplaced once in eight starts and also has a chance of getting in the money.