Ladbrokes Tip: The Surround Stakes is a nice lead-up to the Coolmore Classic each autumn
The latest edition of the Surround Stakes took place on Saturday March 1, 2025 at Randwick and saw Chris Waller’s odds-on favourite Lady Shenandoah ($1.30F) salute for the punters with another win over Lady Of Camelot.
2025 Surround Stakes Results
The full Surround Stakes 2025 results including the Surround Stakes winner and margins will be known below on Saturday March 1, 2025.
2025 Surround Stakes winner Lady Shenandoah won another Group 1 at Randwick for Chris Waller. Photo: © 2025 – Bradley Photos.
- 1st: #1 Lady Shenandoah
- 2nd: #2 Lady Of Camelot
- 3rd: #7 Lazzura
The wins continued for Chris Waller‘s outstanding filly Lady Shenandoah ($1.30F) who again beat home Golden Slipper winner Lady Of Camelot in the 2025 Surround Stakes results on Saturday at Randwick in a repeat of the Light Fingers’ quinella from a fortnight back ahead of a potential Group 1 Coolmore Classic run on March 15.
2025 Surround Stakes Odds
The season’s top Surround Stakes 2025 betting odds will be available right here so stay tuned for access to our autumn racing markets.
Early market betting odds on the 2025 Surround Stakes will be displayed below once available. Odds are subject to fluctuation. For current odds on all of our live markets, please visit ladbrokes.com.au.
The Surround Stakes is a Group 1 race for three-year-old fillies run at Royal Randwick Racecourse in late February or early March each Sydney Autumn Racing Carnival on Verry Elleegant Stakes Day. The event was previously a Group 2 race but gained Group 1 status for the first time in 2018.
2022 Surround Stakes winner Hinged. Photo: Steve Hart.
The Group 1 Verry Elleegant Stakes (1600m) – formerly run as the Chipping Norton Stakes – is the headline race at the meeting that 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 $750,000 in prize money as of 2024.
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.
Surround Stakes Race Info
- Date: Saturday March 1, 2025
- Track: Royal Randwick Racecourse
- Distance: 1400m
- Conditions: 3YO Fillies – Set Weights
- Status: Group 1
- Prize Money: $750,000
- First Run: 1979
Surround Stakes Betting
Surround Stakes betting 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) and Lady Shenandoah ($1.30 in 2025) are the latest Surround Stakes favourites 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), that season’s Light Fingers seventh placed filly Hinged (2022), and first-up champ Tropical Squall (2024) whose previous run was a 10th in the VRC Oaks the November prior.
Sunshine In Paris just got there on the line to score a narrow victory in the 2023 Surround Stakes in Sydney. Photo: Steve Hart.
Nakeeta Jane (2019) and Lady Shenandoah (2025) are the latest fillies to do the Light Fingers Stakes – Surround Stakes double.
Surround Stakes Field
The Surround Stakes race 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 Lady Shenandoah (2025), 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.
2025 Surround Stakes Field
The official Surround Stakes 2025 field and barriers for the Verry Elleegant Stakes Day support race will be available below once announced the Wednesday before the race so stay tuned.
The Surround Stakes 2025 final field features a quality line-up of three-year-old fillies led by Chris Waller’s Flight Stakes champ Lady Shenandoah who is odds-on after a resuming Light Fingers win at the track.
2025 Surround Stakes Scratchings:
2025 Surround Stakes Nominations
Early Surround Stakes 2025 nominations close at midday on Tuesday the 11th of February 2025 with late entries open until the Monday of race week.
The Surround Stakes 2025 nominations attracted 56 three-year-old fillies led in early betting by Chris Waller’s Flight Stakes winner Lady Shenandoah.
| |
Last 10 |
Horse |
Sex |
Age |
Trainer |
Hcp Rating |
| 1 |
416112x |
AELIANA (NZ) |
F |
3 |
Chris Waller |
|
| 2 |
95x121x |
AMELITA |
F |
3 |
Chris Waller |
78 |
| 3 |
51x76521x4 |
ANOTHER PROPHET |
F |
3 |
Ciaron Maher |
101 |
| 4 |
111x |
AUTUMN GLOW |
F |
3 |
Chris Waller |
98 |
| 5 |
30x33139x5 |
BELLA KHADIJAH |
F |
3 |
Brad Widdup |
66 |
| 6 |
157×812 |
CANNY QUEEN (NZ) |
F |
3 |
Brad Widdup |
62 |
| 7 |
2140x |
CASTANYA |
F |
3 |
Annabel Neasham & Rob Archibald |
76 |
| 8 |
211×4 |
CERTAIN RISE |
F |
3 |
Michael Moroney & Glen Thompson |
|
| 9 |
11x |
CLEAN ENERGY |
F |
3 |
Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott |
76 |
| 10 |
1x11x |
DANCE TO THE BOOM |
F |
3 |
Bjorn Baker |
74 |
| 11 |
8x21x322x |
DECLICHY BOULEVARD |
F |
3 |
Chris Waller |
76 |
| 12 |
3x1238x |
DOMINETTA |
F |
3 |
Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott |
|
| 13 |
1x |
ETERNAL |
F |
3 |
Chris Waller |
63 |
| 14 |
4x412x339x |
GOOD SORT |
F |
3 |
Chris Waller |
69 |
| 15 |
0x251x |
HORIZONS |
F |
3 |
Richard & Will Freedman |
60 |
| 16 |
3x1432x414 |
HUSK |
F |
3 |
Michael, John & Wayne Hawkes |
70 |
| 17 |
24x711x |
HYPERBOLIC (NZ) |
F |
3 |
Brad Widdup |
63 |
| 18 |
51×211 |
IDLE FLYER |
F |
3 |
Matthew Smith |
70 |
| 19 |
0x252447x |
INEVITABLE TRUTH |
F |
3 |
John Sargent |
|
| 20 |
1x183x |
ISLAND DEC |
F |
3 |
Robert & Luke Price |
66 |
| 21 |
5112720 |
KITTY FLASH (NZ) |
F |
3 |
Andrew Forsman |
|
| 22 |
7×1 |
LA ROJA |
F |
3 |
Peter Snowden |
65 |
| 23 |
212x3743x2 |
LADY OF CAMELOT |
F |
3 |
Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott |
109 |
| 24 |
32x11x |
LADY SHENANDOAH |
F |
3 |
Chris Waller |
98 |
| 25 |
11x345x |
LAZZURA |
F |
3 |
Chris Waller |
82 |
| 26 |
1x |
LIGHT FOOT |
F |
3 |
Pat Widdup |
|
| 27 |
4x121x5 |
LILAC |
F |
3 |
Annabel Neasham & Rob Archibald |
76 |
| 28 |
15×4 |
LUTETIA |
F |
3 |
Kris Lees |
60 |
| 29 |
11 |
MACEDON ROSE |
F |
3 |
Ben, Will & JD Hayes |
|
| 30 |
21514x313x |
MANAAL |
F |
3 |
Michael Freedman |
102 |
| 31 |
41445x076x |
MISS BUSSLINGER |
F |
3 |
Kris Lees |
72 |
| 32 |
16x5647x |
MORE TERRITORIES |
F |
3 |
John O’Shea & Tom Charlton |
76 |
| 33 |
313x |
MOVIN OUT (NZ) |
F |
3 |
Chris Waller |
|
| 34 |
63439×1 |
MY PHAR LADY |
F |
3 |
Richard & Will Freedman |
59 |
| 35 |
8x211288x |
NOISES |
F |
3 |
Brad Widdup |
|
| 36 |
19×2421111 |
PERFUMIST (NZ) |
F |
3 |
Bjorn Baker |
82 |
| 37 |
8x1133x |
PHENOM |
F |
3 |
Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott |
68 |
| 38 |
24210x |
PLACID PEARL |
F |
3 |
Matthew Smith |
58 |
| 39 |
56x434122x |
POWERS OF OPAL (NZ) |
F |
3 |
John Sargent |
|
| 40 |
37×12 |
QATARS CHOICE |
F |
3 |
Ciaron Maher |
65 |
| 41 |
82x712x |
ROSE’S LEGACY (NZ) |
F |
3 |
Brad Widdup |
59 |
| 42 |
5x12734x5 |
SAKIMA |
F |
3 |
Peter Snowden |
68 |
| 43 |
531 |
SCALABLE (NZ) |
F |
3 |
Bjorn Baker |
64 |
| 44 |
35×211 |
SCINTILLA |
F |
3 |
Les Bridge |
69 |
| 45 |
232x151x |
SHE’S GOT PIZZAZZ |
F |
3 |
Peter G Moody & Katherine Coleman |
|
| 46 |
10×21 |
SHOHISHA |
F |
3 |
David Payne |
75 |
| 47 |
325x22156x |
SILMARILLION |
F |
3 |
James Cummings |
81 |
| 48 |
27112x |
SNEAKY SUNRISE |
F |
3 |
Ben, Will & JD Hayes |
|
| 49 |
1x123x5 |
SNOW IN MAY |
F |
3 |
John O’Shea & Tom Charlton |
86 |
| 50 |
52×1 |
SPACEBALLS |
F |
3 |
Ciaron Maher |
64 |
| 51 |
42 |
SWELTERING |
F |
3 |
Trent Busuttin & Natalie Young |
|
| 52 |
2 |
TIME TO BACA |
F |
3 |
Mick Price & Michael Kent (Jnr) |
|
| 53 |
138x83183x |
TOO DARN LIZZIE |
F |
3 |
Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott |
|
| 54 |
1x |
VERONA ROSE |
F |
3 |
Gary Portelli |
60 |
| 55 |
11250x |
WINGS OF DESIRE |
F |
3 |
Michael Freedman |
68 |
| 56 |
1x1544216x |
ZEITUNG |
F |
3 |
James Cummings |
|
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 six of the 16 winners from 2009 – 2025.
2025 Surround Stakes Tips
Our Ladbrokes’ insider Surround Stakes 2025 tips and betting selections on which runners to back and sack in the Group 1 fillies’ race this autumn will be available below the week of the race so stay tuned.
- To Win: #1 Lady Shenandoah ($1.55 at time of publish) – BET NOW
The favourite in the Surround, Lady Shenandoah, is at a nearly unbackable price of $1.55 at time of publish but this filly looks impossible to bet against even in the big Group 1 field. She is two-from-two at the Randwick track including her elite level Flight Stakes win over the mile last time in. Fresh the bonny daughter of Snitzel was superior in the key lead-up to this winning the Group 2 Light Fingers Stakes with an easy effort over Golden Slipper winner Lady Of Camelot. She presents fitter again second up chasing a hat-trick at Royal Randwick and will only be better up to the 1400m. Master hoop James McDonald is booked for the ride and is drawn to get all the favours from gate three. Wins.
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).
The 2022 Surround Stakes winner Hinged franked the form with placings in that autumn’s Coolmore Classic (3rd) and Vinery Stud Stakes (2nd). She also finished fourth in the Australian Oaks before a strong spring return running third in the George Main and Epsom Handicap results.
The 2022 runner-up Startantes took out the Group 1 Tattersall’s Tiara that winter in Brisbane further franking the Surround Stakes form.
The 2023 Surround Stakes placegetters franked the form with subsequent Group 1 wins. The runner-up Ruthless Dame took out the Robert Sangster Stakes against the older mares in Adelaide, while third placegetter In Secret flew down the Flemington straight next start to salute in the Newmarket Handicap.
The 2024 Surround Stakes form was franked with the runner-up, Stefi Magnetica, going on to win Brisbane’s Group 1 Stradbroke Handicap race that winter.
2025 Surround Stakes Form Guide
A link to our comprehensive Surround Stakes 2025 Form Guide will be provided for punters below the week of the race.
Surround Stakes Results
The Surround Stakes race 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), Hinged ($10 in 2022), and Sunshine In Paris ($11 in 2023).
Standout Surround Stakes winners include Lady Shenandoah (2025), First Seal (2015), Streama (2012), More Joyous (2010), and Gold Edition (2007).
Ghisoni holds the current Surround Stakes race record winning in 2016 in a time of 1 minute 21:25 seconds.
Surround Stakes Winners
Past Surround Stakes winners and placegetters dating back to the year 2000 are detailed in the below table.
| Year |
Winner |
2nd |
3rd |
Time |
| 2025 |
Lady Shenandoah |
Lady Of Camelot |
Lazzura |
1:20.56 |
| 2024 |
Tropical Squall |
Stefi Magnetica |
Tutta La Vita |
1:22.63 |
| 2023 |
Sunshine In Paris |
Ruthless Dame |
In Secret |
1:22.84 |
| 2022 |
Hinged |
Startantes |
Espiona |
1:26.0 |
| 2021 |
Forbidden Love |
Vangelic |
Elizabeel |
1:22.3 |
| 2020 |
Probabeel |
Funstar |
Xilong |
1:21.3 |
| 2019 |
Nakeeta Jane |
Fundamentalist |
El Dorado Dreaming |
1:21.8 |
| 2018 |
Shoals |
Torvill |
Rimraam |
1:23.4 |
| 2017 |
La Bella Diosa |
Omei Sword |
Global Glamour |
1:25.6 |
| 2016 |
Ghisoni |
Single Gaze |
Stay With Me |
1:21.3 |
| 2015 |
First Seal |
Supara |
Slightly Sweet |
1:22.9 |
| 2014 |
Thump |
Real Surreal |
Lucia Valentina |
1:23.5 |
| 2013 |
Dear Demi |
Driefontein |
Longport |
1:22.2 |
| 2012 |
Streama |
Sea Siren |
Hallowell Belle |
1:24.7 |
| 2011 |
Parables |
Red Tracer |
Rose Of Peace |
1:22.3 |
| 2010 |
More Joyous |
Hurtle Myrtle |
So Anyway |
1:23.6 |
| 2009 |
Portillo |
Romneya |
Rocha |
1:21.8 |
| 2008 |
Chinchilla Rose |
Occurrence |
Mimi Lebrock |
1:24.2 |
| 2007 |
Gold Edition |
Tuesday Joy |
Just Dancing |
1:22.3 |
| 2006 |
Regal Cheer |
Mnemosyne |
Star Mystic |
1:22.8 |
| 2005 |
Lotteria |
Shania Dane |
Johan’s Toy |
1:22.8 |
| 2004 |
Only Words |
Ike’s Dream |
Shamekha |
1:25.9 |
| 2003 |
Bollinger |
Bumptious |
Sunday Joy |
1:23.1 |
| 2002 |
Hosannah |
Heritiere |
Quays |
1:22.8 |
| 2001 |
On Type |
Maitland Gold |
Miss Kournikova |
1:22.7 |
| 2000 |
Ad Alta |
Spinning Hill |
Camena |
1:24.0 |
FAQ
Who won the 2025 Surround Stakes?
The 2025 Surround Stakes was won by Lady Shenandoah at $1.30 for trainer Chris Waller with jockey James McDonald aboard from barrier 3 on 56kg to salute by 0.29 lengths in a time of 1:20.56.
When is the Surround Stakes 2025?
Saturday March 1, 2025
What is the prize money for the Surround Stakes 2025?
$750,000
Where is the Surround Stakes 2025?
Randwick Racecourse, Alison Rd, Randwick NSW 2031.