The NSW autumn carnival heads out of town this Saturday and we've got Hawkesbury's big day covered.

The Hawkesbury Crown is one of a handful of features on the card, which also includes the Hawkesbury Gold Cup, Hawkesbury Guineas, Gold Rush and Claret Stakes.

Our cover horse in NSW is Military Zone, Joel Marshall's tip for the Guineas.

Elsewhere, it's Redoute's Choice Stakes day at Caulfield, Chairman's Stakes day at Morphettville and Gunsynd Classic day at Doomben.

Our form coverage kicks off on Friday with full form guides for the Cranbourne night meeting, plus the daytime action at Werribee and Canberra as well as fields, colours and selections for Port Macquarie and Rockhampton.

The metro racing this Saturday is at Caulfield in Melbourne, Hawkesbury in NSW, Morphettville in Adelaide, Eagle Farm in Brisbane and Ascot in Perth.

Winning Post carries full-colour liftout guides for all those meetings plus Kyneton, (Vic/SA/Tas edition), Newcastle (NSW edition) and Dalby (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 Tamworth Cup day, 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 NSW, six Victorian districts, SA and Tasmania.

Our readers have their say on page 6, while elsewhere in the paper 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.

Winning Post costs $5.50 and is available Thursday afternoon in selected Ballarat newsagents, the crack of dawn Friday elsewhere.