Gran Alegria enters the final race of her career, Sunday’s Mile Championship at Hanshin, in a novel situation. The champion 5-year-old mare carries her first two-race losing streak into the Group 1, $2.36 million Championship Mile, run around a right-handed bend Gran Alegria knows well. In April 2019, she won the Oka Sho, the Japanese 1000 Guineas, over 1,600 meters at Hanshin, and a year ago she beat Indy Champ by three-quarters of a length in this very race. Even in defeat, Gran Alegria, who is 10-7-1-1 in 1,600-meter contests, has performed admirably. Two starts ago, in the Group 1 Yasuda Kinen over 1,600 meters at Tokyo, she burst between horses in mid-stretch, closing powerfully toward the inside to miss by a nose to Danon Kingly. And in her most recent race, the Group 1 Tenno Sho Autumn, Gran Alegria finished a competitive third behind two top-class foes, Efforia and Contrail, while going 2,000 meters, a distance farther than ideal. :: Get free PPs for racing at Hanshin Racecourse here. Trained by Kazuo Fujisawa, Gran Alegria breaks from post 12 under regular rider Christophe Lemaire while carrying 55 kilograms, about 4 1/2 pounds less than her older male rivals. Gran Alegria, expected to be retired and become a broodmare following Sunday’s race, is by Deep Impact and out of the Tapit mare, Tapitsfly, winner of the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf and two Grade 1s during her American racing career. :: Bet the races with confidence on DRF Bets. You're one click away from the only top-rated betting platform fully integrated with exclusive data, analytics, and expert picks. Gran Alegria faces 15 rivals and in early betting as of Friday was solidly favored with 3-year-old Schnell Meister the only other entrant at single-digit odds. Three-year-old Schnell Meister, who gives two pounds to the favored mare, finished third, less than one length behind Gran Alegria, in the Yasuda Kinen after winning his first Group 1 in the NHK Mile Cup this past May. He has more upside than Gran Alegria but makes his first start at Hanshin and will need to step forward to beat the mare. Other familiar names among the list of entries are Grenadier Guards, third behind Schnell Meister in the NHK Mile, and Indy Champ, who won the 2019 renewal of the Mile Championship and was second last year behind Gran Alegria. Post time for the Mile Championship is 1:40 a.m. Eastern. Watch and wager at DRFBets.com.