The Surround Stakes is a set weights race for three year old fillies run over 1400m and is one of two Group 1 races taking place at Royal Randwick this Saturday afternoon.

The race has been won by some quality fillies over the years including Gold Edition (2007), More Joyous (2010) and Probabeel (2020).

We have run through every runner that has accepted for the race and our full 2022 Surround Stakes Preview can be read below.

The Group 1 Thousand Guineas winner resumes over 1400m in the Surround Stakes at Royal Randwick on Saturday.

The daughter of Snitzel is out of the proven mare Rising Romance and she has had two solid trials leading into this first up assignment.

There is no doubt that she will improve on whatever she produces in this race with bigger goals in mind out in distance later in the autumn but her class will take her a long way.

The Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott trained filly Never Been Kissed has produced three wins from just the five career race starts.

She finished second behind the very smart Profondo in the Group 1 Spring Champion Stakes at this track to round out her spring campaign and while this is short of her best, she is a major player with two trials under the belt.

Fangirl was first over the line for the fourth time in her short six race career when she resumed in the Group 2 Light Fingers over 1200m two weeks ago.

Although it was a blanket finish in that race, she showed an enormous turn of foot and she beat home the hype horse Espiona in that event which is hard to ignore.

She’ll take plenty of benefit out of that run and the step up in distance suits.

Barrier 16 does not.

There is no doubting the ability of Four Moves Ahead who has performed well at this level in the past.

While there was cause for concern that she has not come up after her spell after finishing 7.5 lengths behind the winner Fangirl in the Group 2 Light Fingers first up, she is too good a filly to give up on just yet.

Nash Rawiller will need to be at his best from barrier 18.

Hinged

The Chris Waller trained Hinged is another that comes through the Light Fingers and she was doing her best late in the concluding stages of the race to finish seventh.

She put together three wins in a row during her last campaign before being narrowly denied in the Group 1 Flight Stakes at this track.

A repeat of that effort would see her go close in this contest.

Jamaea

It’s hard to get that Group 2 Furious Stakes win out of my head when she stormed over the top of a very good field from last to win during the spring.

When resuming in the Light Fingers, she looked like the winner at one stage and she will only benefit from that run.

She has always looked like a filly that will improve as she gets older and she possesses a turn of foot that may be unrivaled in her age and sex group.

Despite losing as the short priced favourite in the Light Fingers, I doubt this filly lost too many admirers.

Her win on Oaks Day during the Melbourne Cup carnival was simply out of this world when scoring by 6.5 lengths and that was the win of a very promising young race horse.

She is not a 1200m horse and was really only getting worked up late in the race and she showed good fight when challenged.

Make no mistake that she is the horse to beat despite it clearly being her biggest challenge to date.