Coming up, it's the weekend you've all been waiting for: yes, it's the horses' birthday but you get the present.

Winning Post's famous wall calendar, sponsored by Sportsbet.com.au and featuring every Australian race meeting plus major international racing and sporting dates, will be inside this week's edition.

Of course, not only do you get the calendar for your $5, you get all Winning Post's usual great reading with form from Friday to Sunday as well as a four-page liftout for Monday's action including Darwin Cup day.

Our form coverage kicks off on Friday with full form guides for Racing.com Park and Canberra, plus fields, colours and tips for Tamworth and Ipswich.

The metro racing this Saturday is at Moonee Valley in Melbourne, Rosehill in Sydney, Morphettville Parks in Adelaide, Doomben in Brisbane and Belmont in Perth.

Winning Post carries full-colour liftout guides for all those meetings plus Warrnambool (Vic/SA/Tas edition), Kembla Grange (NSW edition) and Gold Coast (Queensland edition), as well as fields, tips, ratings and/or colours for other TAB Saturday cards.

On Sunday we've got liftout formguides for four more TAB meetings including Bengalla Cup day at Muswellbrook plus 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.

Away from the form, we've got news columns from Queensland, NSW, six Victorian districts, SA and Tasmania.

Our readers have their say on page 4, while Richard Callander has the inside mail from Sydney and Shane Templeton reminisces on page 5. Further back in the book Paul Richards presents his unique take on the sport and Tony Kneebone delivers his lively Snippets column.

Winning Post costs $5 and is available Thursday afternoon in selected Melbourne newsagents, the crack of dawn Friday elsewhere.