Widden it be nice
By Winning Post, January 25, 2026 - 6:23 AM

This week's Winning Post will be available online here from 3pm Thursday AEDT.

The Blue Diamond-bound babies stepped out on the Australia Day weekend, and this Saturday the road to the Golden Slipper starts with the Widden and Canonbury Stakes at Rosehill.

Both races have produced more than their share of Slipper winners, most recently Lady Of Camelot, who completed the Widden Stakes-Golden Slipper double for Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott in 2024.

There's also black-type action for the older sprinters at Rosehill, with the running of the Group 3 Southern Cross Stakes.

More two-year-olds step out at Caulfield in the Chairman's Stakes, while the mares go around later on the card in the Geoffrey Bellmaine Stakes.

Our Sunday coverage includes full guides for Sale Sprint day and the Bega Cup card at the Sapphire Coast.

Our form coverage kicks off on Friday with a full form guide for Cranbourne (and Sydeston Cup night at Launceston in the Tassie edition), plus fields, colours, previews and tips for a stack more Friday meetings.

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

Winning Post carries full-colour liftout guides for all those meetings plus bet365 Park Kyneton (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 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 four Victorian training tracks, three in Sydney, plus SA and Brisbane reports.

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

Our readers have their say on page 4, while elsewhere in the book Shane Templeton reminisces, Paul Richards presents his unique take on the sport, Matt Stewart weighs in on the issues and Number Cruncher delivers the stats that matter.

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