Seabrook starts Sydney prep in G1 Surround

Seabrook (r) will be out to claim a second Randwick G1 when she runs in the Surround Stakes.

Already a Group One winner at Randwick, the Mick Price-trained Seabrook is aiming to add another when she runs in the Surround Stakes.

The Melbourne-trained filly kicks off her autumn campaign in Sydney on Saturday in the 1400m-race for fillies.

It starts a run of a minimum three Group One races for the three-year-old who has also been earmarked for the Coolmore Classic at Rosehill on March 16 and the Coolmore Legacy at Randwick four weeks later.

As a two-year-old Seabrook won the Group One Champagne Stakes at Randwick before claiming a Group One placing when third to Amphitrite in the Thousand Guineas in the spring.

“The option was to wait another week for the Kewney Stakes (at Flemington) but she’s already a Group One winner,” Price said.

“If she runs in the Kewney it puts her a week off the Group One fillies and mares race in Sydney, so I thought I’d get her up there, get her settled in and chase the Group One fillies and mares races.”

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Seabrook has drawn barrier 10 and Price said he would suggest she be ridden cold in a bid to finish the race off strongly.

He said the filly was in fantastic order and had done plenty of work right-handed ahead of her return.

“She’s flexible because if you draw a gate you can put her up there,” Price said.

“I think if we ride cold, she can get home and I think you’ll see her working home really well.

“She worked on Wednesday after going up there last week after she worked the reverse way here a couple of times before that.

“She’s beautiful, she’s bigger, she’s stronger.

“Her fitness in a Group One might pinch her in the last 100 metres but I still expect her to be running on into the finish.”