Three-year-old French filly Immortal Verse has made her first international trip, shipping to Japan where she starts Sunday at Kyoto in the Mile Championship, worth a little less than $2.5 million. All that travel and Immortal Verse runs into a familiar foe, Sahpresa, another French filly and the fourth-place finisher in the 2010 edition of the Mile Championship. Robert Collet trains Immortal Verse, and his son, Rod Collet, trains Sahpresa.A full field of 18 is expected for the Kyoto Mile, including last year’s hero, A Shin Forward, who has failed to win since that victory. Immortal Verse and Sahpresa are the only non-Japanese runners in the race, which is contested over a right-handed course.Immortal Verse proved no match for Frankel last month in the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes at Ascot, checking in third while well beaten by runner-up Excelebration. But Immortal Verse had missed important training time just before that race, and stands a decent chance of coming significantly forward in Sunday’s race. Before the Ascot loss she had won three straight starts, including a victory over Goldikova and Sahpresa in the Prix Jacque le Marois in August. A somewhat slight filly, Immortal Verse prefers to linger near the rear of the field early in her races before coming with a big late run.Six-year-old Sahpresa’s peak performance probably rates slightly lower than Immortal Verse’s. The eight-time winner convincingly won the Sun Chariot Stakes at Newmarket in her most recent performance, but while the Sun Chariot is a Group 1 the fillies just behind Sahpresa in September were not world-class.