As the feature race on Ladies Day at Newmarket’s Future Champions Festival, the Fillies Mile is a race that every trainer, owner and jockey wants to win.
Run in October, it’s a race day that also brings the autumnal fashion stakes to the racecourse, while on the track, some of the best females of the equine kind attempt to battle it out in this extremely prestigious Group One affair.
Open exclusively to two-year-old fillies, it’s an event that regularly bloods the stars of the future and tests them out over the straight mile of Newmarket’s Rowley Mile.
2023 Fillies' Mile Odds
You'll find the latest odds for the Fillies' Mile at the head of this page.
2023 Fillies' Mile Tips
Our preview of the Fillies' Mile will be published when the final field has been confirmed.
2022 Fillies' Mile Result
Position
Name
SP
1st
Commissioning
8/13f
2nd
Novakai
11/1
3rd
Bright Diamond
7/1
Fillies' Mile Day Card
Race
Title
1
The Newmarket
Academy Godolphin Beacon Project Cornwallis Stakes
2
The Godolphin Lifetime Care Oh So Sharp
Stakes
3
The Godolphin Stud & Stable Staff Awards
Challenge Stakes
4
The bet365 Fillies' Mile
5
The bet365 Old Rowley Cup (Heritage Handicap)
6
The Godolphin Under Starters Orders Maiden
Fillies' Stakes (Plus 10)
7
The Darley Pride Stakes (formerly The
Severals Stakes)
Fillies' Mile History
The Fillies' Mile is a Group One flat race for the two-year-olds that's ran on Future Champions Day at Newmarket.
Ran annually towards the end of the year, the total prize pool for this event is £567,500.
Created in 1973, the Fillies Mile was originally held at Ascot where it was sponsored by Green Shield who eventually rebranded to Argos, with the racing once known as the Argos Star Fillies’ Mile.
Two years later and it was upgraded to Group Three Status, with sponsorship this time being picked up by Hoover, who continued their association with the race until 1989, by which time the race had been promoted to a Group Two.
1990 saw it then become a Group One, and although the race was temporarily held at Newmarket in 2005, it wasn’t until 2011 that it would call the British HQ its home.
Following that move it was a race that became part of the three-day Cambridgeshire meeting, but switched places in the calendar with the Rockfel Stakes in 2014 and became part of the Future Champions Festival.
Top Irish trainer, Aidan O'Brien saddled the Fillies' Mile winner for three seasons in a row, with Together Forever, Minding and Rhododendron winning between 2014 and 2016. Having ridden Together Forever to victory for his father, Joseph O'Brien then trained the Fillies' Mile winner in 2018, with Iridessa coming out on top.
In 2017, fan's favourite Laurens claimed victory for Karl Burke and owner, John Dance. Roger Charlton was celebrating in 2019, as the well-backed Quadrilateral held off Powerful Breeze to win her first Group One at Newmarket.
Joseph O'Brien saddle his second Fillies' Mile winner in three years in 2020, as the impressive PRetty Gorgeous saw off Indigo Girl to claim victory.
Fillies Mile Betting Guide
If you’re a fan of favourite backing in these big races then think again when it comes to the Fillies Mile at Newmarket.
Just six of the last 12 winners have come from the top two in the betting and winners in 2017 and 2018 were landed at odds of 10/1 and 14/1 respectively.
The means punters can often find plenty of value in this big race, especially if their selection had won their last race, as those fitting that description have won seven of the last 12 renewals of the Fillies Mile.
In addition, those that like to study the form book might appreciate that six of the last 12 winners of the Fillies Mile also started in May Hill Stakes at Doncaster on their last run, with five winning that race and the other placing.
Nine of the last 12 also had at least one previous run over eight furlongs, while eleven of the last 12 had run at least three times that season. Facts that could well help you to land the winner this time around.
