THE sole Group 1 restricted to two-year-old fillies on the Japanese racing calendar unsurprisingly attracted a full field last Sunday.

The Hanshin Juvenile Fillies is the key race to determining the leading female two-year-old of her generation. It is the best, and often the most reliable indicator for predicting the main protagonists for the first fillies’ classic of next year, the Oka Sho (1000 Guineas), run over the same course and distance.