Surround Stakes 2022

Ladbrokes Tip: The Surround Stakes is a nice lead-up to the Coolmore Classic each autumn

The Surround Stakes is a Group 1 race for three-year-old fillies run at Royal Randwick Racecourse in early February each Sydney Autumn Racing Carnival on Chipping Norton Stakes Day. The event was previously a Group 2 race, but gained Group 1 status for the first time in 2018.

The Group 1 Chipping Norton Stakes (1600m) is the headline race at the meeting, which also features a number of Group 2 support acts on the card.

Run over 1400m at set weights, the Surround Stakes now offers a lucrative $500,000 in prize money.

The race is named in honour of former champion filly Surround who took out the 1976-1977 Australian Champion Racehorse of the Year award. Fillies that run well in the Surround Stakes may back up and step up in class for a shot at the Group 1 Coolmore Classic (1500m) at Rosehill a fortnight later.

The latest edition of the Surround Stakes took place on Saturday February 26, 2022 and was won by the Chris Waller-trained Hinged ($10). 

Surround Stakes Race Info

• Date: Saturday February 26, 2022
• Track: Royal Randwick Racecourse
• Distance: 1400m
• Conditions: 3YO Fillies – Set Weights
• Status: Group 1
• Prize Money: $500,000
• First Run: 1979

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2022 Surround Stakes Results

The full Surround Stakes 2022 results including the Surround Stakes winner and margins will be known below on Saturday February 26, 2022.

• 1st: #5 Hinged ($10)
• 2nd: #8 Startantes
• 3rd: #7 Espiona

Chris Waller posted his first victory in the Surround Stakes 2022 results with his progressive filly Hinged ($10) defeating the fast-finishing roughie hope Startantes and the beaten Waller-trained favourite Espiona ahead of a likely rematch in the Coolmore Classic.

Surround Stakes Betting

Surround Stakes odds are released after the field is out on the Wednesday before the race.

In-form fillies coming off good lead-up runs in Sydney earlier in the autumn dominate the Surround Stakes betting markets.

Favourites have a strong recent record in the Surround Stakes and the markets are led by Light Fingers Stakes graduates that ran in the first three last time out a fortnight before.

Nakeeta Jane ($3.60 in 2019) was the last Surround Stakes favourite to salute for the punters.

Since More Joyous (2010) completed the Light Fingers Stakes – Surround Stakes double, the only winners of the latter to finish worse than fourth in the lead-up were Thump (2014) who improved on a Light Fingers seventh to win, Shoals (2018) who atoned for a first-up eighth in the Group 3 Kevin Hayes Stakes (1600m) to post her second Group 1 success, and Magic Millions Guineas ninth placed Forbidden Love (2021) and that season’s Light Fingers seventh placed filly Hinged (2022).

Nakeeta Jane (2019) was also the last filly to do the Light Fingers Stakes – Surround Stakes double winning the latter as the $3.60 favourite in Surround Stakes betting.

2022 Surround Stakes Odds

The season’s top Surround Stakes 2022 betting odds will be available right here so stay tuned for access to our autumn racing markets.

Surround Stakes Field

The Surround Stakes field features a line-up of the season’s best middle-distance fillies that are looking to step up to a mile or further over the autumn.

Many fillies in the field come out of the Group 2 Light Fingers Stakes (1200m) held two weeks earlier, which is the traditional lead-up race to the Surround Stakes.

The latest fillies to complete the Light Fingers Stakes – Surround Stakes double are Nakeeta Jane (2019), More Joyous (2010) and Gold Edition (2007).

Surround Stakes nominations close on a Tuesday in early February, with the final field of acceptances and barrier draw released on the Wednesday of race week.

2022 Surround Stakes Field

The official Surround Stakes 2022 field and barriers for the Chipping Norton Stakes Day Group 2 support race will be available below once announced the Wednesday before the race so stay tuned.

A standout 2022 Surround Stakes final field is gathered for Saturday in Sydney including Chris Waller’s Light Fingers Stakes quinella of Fangirl and Espiona.

• Scratched: #1 Yearning (2) has come out and will instead race on firmer going in Melbourne’s Group 2 Angus Armanasco Stakes; #15 Ringarosa (12); #17e Von Trapp (3). 

2022 Surround Stakes Nominations

Early Surround Stakes 2022 nominations close on Tuesday the 8th of February, 2022 with late entries open until the Monday of race week.

The 2022 Surround Stakes nominations drew 40 early entries including a host of Group 1 winning fillies such as Yearning (Thousand Guineas) and Never Been Kissed (Flight Stakes).

Table Credit: Racing Australia.

Surround Stakes Tips

Surround Stakes tips are led each autumn by the fillies that ran first four in the Light Fingers Stakes two weeks earlier.

The Light Fingers Stakes has produced more Surround Stakes winners than any other lead-up including all but five of the 14 winners from 2009 – 2022.

2022 Surround Stakes Tips

Our Ladbrokes’ insider Surround Stakes 2022 tips and betting selections on which fillies to back and sack in the Group 2 this autumn will be available below the week of the race so stay tuned.

• Best Roughie: #8 Startantes ($26 at time of publish) 

Rob Heathcote’s Queenslander probably is not quite on the same level as most of these, but if that weather stays ugly and the track stays Heavy then she’s a definite Top 3 chance at odds. Last start she finished just better than mid-field sixth in the Light Fingers Stakes, but was only two lengths beaten with improvement to come. She was at similar odds there on a Good (4) and she was also eye-catching in the spring when third in the Flight Stakes over a mile beaten a similar distance. Hasn’t raced on Heavy, but she has been excellent on Soft going and is so versatile.

Surround Stakes Form Guide

The Surround Stakes form guide lists all of the crucial information like barriers, jockeys and trainers punters need to consider before placing a bet on the fillies’ only feature. The Surround Stakes form has held up in better autumn classics over the years including the Group 1 Coolmore Classic (1500m) and Group 1 Vinery Stud Stakes (2000).

In 2015 First Seal won the Surround Stakes before finishing second in both of those elite level features for the female gallopers. In 2014 Lucia Valentina ran third in the Surround Stakes before winning the Vinery Stud Stakes two starts later and running third in the Group 1 Australian Oaks (2400m).

2022 Surround Stakes Form Guide

A link to our comprehensive Surround Stakes 2022 Form Guide will be provided for punters below the week of the race.

Surround Stakes Results

The Surround Stakes results have been dominated by the favourites in recent years. The most notable upset in the past decade was Thump who saluted at $25 in 2014,  Shoals ($13 in 2018) and Hinged ($10 in 2022).

Standout Surround Stakes winners include First Seal (2015), Streama (2012), More Joyous (2010) and Gold Edition (2007).

Surround Stakes Winners