Winning Post

This week in Winning Post

This week's Winning Post is now available online here.

Yes, it's the horses' birthday on Saturday, but you get the present ... a day early.

This weekend's (printed edition) Winning Post is our famous calendar edition. Inside is our top-quality 28-page wall calendar featuring pictorial highlights of the season just ending and all the racedates, feature dates and big sporting events for the coming 12 months.

This edition always sells out so make sure you get to the newsagent bright and early.

Of course, you also get all the usual features of your whirlaway Winning Post, including Australia's best form coverage from Friday to Sunday.

The first Saturday of the new season brings the first group race of 2026/27, the Group 3 Aurie's Star at Flemington.

The Peter Snowden-trained King Of Roseau won last year's Aurie's Star and went on to capture the Magic Millions Cup, the Liverpool City Cup and the Takeover Target Stakes.

Rosehill, Morphettville, Doomben and Belmont are Saturday's other city venues.

Our coverage kicks off on Friday with fields, colours and tips for all six Friday TAB meetings.

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

Winning Post carries full-colour liftout guides for all those meetings plus Hamilton (Vic/SA/Tas edition), Newcastle (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 four more TAB meetings including Grand National Hurdle/Crisp Steeple day at Sandown 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.

Our readers have their say on page 4 while columns from Matt Stewart, Shane Templeton, Paul Richards and John Wathen-Berry are required reading.

Winning Post costs $7 ($6 online) and is available in newsagents first thing Friday morning. (If you want the printed calendar, you'll have to buy the print edition. For online customers we will put up a downloadable PDF version over the weekend.)

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Inside Winning Post August 1 edition you'll find liftout form guides for:

Saturday:

Caulfield, Randwick, Morphettville, Eagle Farm, Belmont, Mildura (Vic/SA/Tas edition), Kembla Grange (NSW edition), Townsville (Qld edition)

Sunday:

Echuca, Casterton, Wagga

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.

Flemington Saturday - R3 N9 Flash Feeling

Results

Letter of the Week

Go national

Troy Corstens asks how Australian racing would look if we started again from scratch (Richo, 25/7).
Surely there would be one obvious difference.
If we were starting from scratch, building a sport/industry fit for purpose in the 21st century, we would get rid of the system where, by an accident of history, racing is governed by not one administrative body but seven.
Of all the major sports on the Australian landscape, why is racing the only one to retain its governance structure from colonial days?
Even the crusty old British have a single peak body, the British Horseracing Authority, to administer the sport there.
The word “authority” is key in the organisation’s name. We have something called Racing Australia, but it’s a toothless tiger with no authority whatsoever.
What do we get with six states and a territory each running their own racing? We get the whales swallowing the minnows, sponsorship/wagering deals flogged off piecemeal at cut prices, a black-type committee that hasn’t met or made a decision in eight years …
Remember that time a jockey got suspended in Hong Kong yet could ride in NSW -- but nowhere else in Australia?
And then there’s the mad programming that sees the Australian Guineas and Randwick Guineas run a week apart (if not actually on the same day), the Golden Eagle cannibalising the Cox Plate field, the Spring Champion the week before the Victoria Derby.
I could go on.
Sadly, as has been noted on this page previously, there is Buckley’s chance of rationalisation while the major parties federally seem to regard racing as a minor embarrassment about which the less said, the better. Apart, of course, from the Greens, who do have a policy on racing -- i.e., to abolish it.

Dale Scott
Cremorne (Vic)