The Stradbroke is behind us but the Queensland carnival rolls on, this week to Ipswich, where a metro-class card is headed by the Ipswich cup for the stayers, the Eye Liner Stakes for the sprinters and the Gai Waterhouse Classic for the mares.

The Ipswich Cup will see Victorian co-trainers Ciaron Maher and David Eustace aiming for a share of the Queensland winter spoils with ex-WA stayer Lite'n in My Veins.

Peter Lyne's Ipswich preview will lead this week's Winning Post.

Our form coverage kicks off on Friday with full form guides for Geelong and Dubbo as well as fields, colours and selections for Goulburn and Toowoomba.

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

Winning Post carries full-colour liftout guides for all those meetings plus Wodonga (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 Wauchope Cup day at Port Macquarie 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 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.