This week in Winning Post

This week's Winning Post will be available online from 3pm Thursday AEDT here.

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.

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Inside Winning Post March 23 edition you'll find liftout form guides for:
Friday:
Cranbourne
Saturday:
The Valley, Rosehill, Morphettville, Eagle Farm, Ascot, bet365 Benalla (Vic/SA edition), Kembla Grange (NSW edition), Gold Coast (Qld edition)
Sunday:
bet365 Bairnsdale, Ballarat, Goulburn, Hobart (Tas edition)
Who should James McDonald ride in the Golden Slipper?
Eye Catchers
Each week Paul Richards identifies horses from recent race meetings that he believes are ready to win. Here we update you when they are about to have their next start.
Sportsbet-Pakenham Friday - R3 N8 Illative 1st
Rosehill Gardens Saturday - R6 N7 Omni Man 4th
Rosehill Gardens Saturday - R7 N5 Saltcoats 8th
Rosehill Gardens Saturday - R8 N5 Hinged 5th
Rosehill Gardens Saturday - R9 N13 Amor Victorious 7th
Caulfield Saturday - R7 N4 Waltz On By 1st
Caulfield Saturday - R8 N11 Holymanz 8th
Caulfield Saturday - R8 N12 Pride Of Jenni 1st
Results
Today's Racing
Tuesday 19 March
Wednesday 20 March
Thursday 21 March
Social Networking

Paul Richards introduces a fun formula each week designed to come up with the odd winner for those looking for a small interest or to see if systems really work. On this page he subjects Saturday's fields to one of those systems: