This week in Winning Post

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Old-timers will tell you they could always detect the first scent of spring in the air when the weight-for-agers stepped out for the Liston Stakes at Sandown. These days the Liston is the P.B. Lawrence and it's run at Caulfield, but the same observation applies.

Cosmic Crusader, devastating first-up winner of last month's Bletchingly Stakes, will be back at the track for the Lawrence en route to a tilt at the coming Cox Plate. 

Elsewhere on the Caulfield card, the new-season three-year-olds strut their stuff in the Vain and the Quezette while the sprinters match motors in the Regal Roller.

Meanwhile the Sydney three-year-olds begin their Golden Rose journey in the Rosebud at Rosehill, while it's Mekkafest day at Doomben.

Our coverage kicks off on Friday with colours and tips for all four TAB meetings.

The metro racing this Saturday is at Caulfield in Melbourne, Rosehill in Sydney, Morphettville in SA, Doomben in Brisbane and Belmont in Perth.

Winning Post carries full-colour liftout guides for all those meetings plus Warracknabeal  (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 including Grand National Steeple day at Ballarat and the Wyong Cup Prelude card 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 all four Melbourne training tracks, all three in Sydney, Morphettville in Adelaide and a general Brisbane report.

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Inside Winning Post August 15 edition you'll find liftout form guides for:
Friday:
Sale (Vic/Tas edition)
Saturday:
Sandown, Randwick, Morphettville, Doomben, Belmont, Newcastle (NSW edition), Cairns (Qld edition)
Sunday:
Wangaratta, Goulburn, Narromine
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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.

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Letter of the Week

Small is beautiful

Richo’s column on rebuilding racing from scratch (25/7) included lots of great ideas and some not so good.
I am very much with his idea of restricting any one trainer to a maximum of three horses in each race. 
In fact, running off that thought, it’s time the principal race clubs sought to restrict the number of horses that a trainer can have. 
It’s crazy the big boys having 500-plus on their books. 
It’s just squashing the smaller trainer and young trainers trying to get a foot in the door. 
Surely 200-250 is enough for the Maher/Wallers of the world to get by. 
They will still get all the bluebloods anyway. 

Greg Walker
Ballina (NSW)
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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: