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Golden Slipper weekend is here, and the 2024 Slipper looks like it will have the shortest-priced favourite in years.
Unbeaten colt Storm Boy was awesome winning the Skyline Stakes at his final lead-up run and he heads an astonishingly strong team from the Gai Waterhouse/Adrian Bott stable. He'll be mighty hard to beat, and if he or a stablemate does win it will be a record eighth Slipper for Gai.
The Slipper heads what these days is arguably the best raceday on the Australian calendar, boasting no fewer than five Group 1s. The Rosehill Guineas for the three-year-olds, the Ranvet for the weight-for-agers, the George Ryder for the milers and the Galaxy for the speedsters round out the majors.
There's also Group 1 action in Melbourne, with the William Reid Stakes headling The Valley's autumn showpiece. Adelaide's autumn warms up with the Matrice Stakes and the Clare Lindop, while it's Supremacy Stakes and Grandstand Cup day at Ascot.
Our form coverage kicks off on Friday with a full guide to the Cranbourne night meeting and fields/colours/tips/overviews for all the other TAB action.
The metro racing this Saturday is at The Valley in Melbourne, Rosehill in Sydney, Morphettville in Adelaide, Eagle Farm in Brisbane and Ascot in Perth.
Winning Post carries full-colour liftout guides for all those meetings plus bet365 Benalla (Vic/SA edition), Kembla Grange (NSW edition) and Gold Coast (Qld edition), as well as fields, tips, ratings and/or colours for other TAB Saturday cards.
On Sunday we've got liftout formguides for three more TAB meetings (plus Hobart in the Tassie edition) as well as fields, ratings, tips and colours for a stack more Sunday and Monday programs.
Don't forget Winning Post now carries trackwork reports for four Victorian training tracks, three in Sydney, Morphettville in Adelaide and a general Brisbane report.
Away from the form, we've got news columns from NSW, six Victorian districts, SA and Tasmania.
Our readers have their say on page 4, while further back in the book Shane Templeton reminisces, Paul Richards presents his unique take on the sport, Tony Kneebone brings you his Snippets column and Number Cruncher delivers the stats that matter.