Champions Mile

THE FWD Champions Mile
Group 1 race
2024 winner Beauty Eternal
LocationSha Tin Racecourse
Hong Kong
Inaugurated2001
Race typeFlat / Thoroughbred
SponsorFWD Group
WebsiteChampions Mile
Race information
Distance1,600 meters
(About 8 furlongs / (1 mile)
SurfaceTurf
TrackRight-handed
QualificationThree-years-old and up
Weight121 lb (3y); 126 lb (4y+)
Allowances
4 lb for fillies and mares
6 lb for N. Hemisphere 3-y-o
PurseHK$20,000,000 (2022)

The Champions Mile is a Group 1 flat horse race in Hong Kong for three-year-old and above thoroughbreds run over a distance of 1,600 metres (approximately 1 mile) on the turf at Sha Tin Racecourse with the total purse of HK$14m in 2014/15, approximately US$1.8m.

It was first run in 2001, and was opened to international competition in 2005 and granted an international grade 1 status in 2007. The race is now the third leg of the four race Asian Mile Challenge, preceded by the Dubai Duty Free Stakes and followed by the Yasuda Kinen.