This week in Winning Post

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One of the great days on the Australian racing calendar is upon us, with Randwick's traditional spring showpiece in Sydney and a quality-packed Turnbull Stakes day in Melbourne.

The headline act at Flemington will be reigning Turnbull champ and Cox Plate favourite Sir Delius, who will appreciate the rise to 2000m after his fourth in the Makybe Diva Stakes.

There's a triple Group 1 card at Randwick, with the milers duking it out in the Epsom, the stayers going toe to toe in the Metropolitan and the fillies matching motors in the Flight.

Our form coverage kicks off on Friday with a full form guide for The Valley @ Cranbourne (and Launceston in the Tassie edition), plus fields, colours and tips for the other Friday TAB meetings.

The metro racing this Saturday is at Flemington in Melbourne, Randwick in Sydney, Murray Bridge in SA, Eagle Farm in Brisbane and Kalgoorlie in WA.

Winning Post carries full-colour liftout guides for all those meetings plus Murtoa (Vic/SA 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 there's plenty of punting to do in the countdown to the NRL grand final and we've got liftout formguides for three more TAB meetings 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 October 3 edition you'll find liftout form guides for:
Friday:
Cranbourne, Launceston (Tas edition)
Saturday:
Flemington, Randwick, Murray Bridge, Eagle Farm, Kalgoorlie, Murtoa (Vic/SA edition), Newcastle (NSW edition), Gold Coast (Qld edition),
Sunday:
Bendigo, Cootamundra
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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

Off and on

Here’s a crazy story from Saturday, September 19 concerning the first two events from the Ayr races in Scotland.
The first two races, having initially been abandoned, were instead run later — at the conclusion of the scheduled meeting, after race seven. Because they were initially listed as being abandoned, the TAB refunded all bets.
However, on checking with the TAB, I found out that that didn’t apply to fixed-odds bets.
Having backed a particular runner in race one (which became the new race eight) both on the tote and at fixed odds, I found it strange to have my tote bet refunded while my fixed-odds bet wasn’t.
The horse was unplaced in the new race eight.
The fact that races one and two were listed as “abandoned” by the club (when they were really postponed) exposed a serious anomaly with the procedure.
Same horses, same barriers, same jockeys, same everything — only run at a different starting time.
It’s a strange one.

Gary Watt
West Footscray (Vic)
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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: