Preludes to greatness
By Winning Post, February 1, 2026 - 6:44 AM

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We're already on the road to the two-year-old Group 1s and we take another step this Saturday with key lead-ups at Caulfield and Randwick.

Caulfield plays host to the Blue Diamond Preludes, where Home Affairs colt Guest House will make his first appearance since his impressive December debut. 

Elsewhere on the Caulfield card, the three-year-olds tackle the Autumn Stakes, the fillies match motors in the Peter Le Grand Stakes and the older sprinters duke it out in the Rubiton Stakes.

At Randwick the features are the Eskimo Prince for three-year-olds and two features for the juveniles: the Lonhro Plate and the $2 million Inglis Millennium.

There's also black-type racing at Morphettville (Premier's Plate) and Ascot (Cyril Flower Stakes).

Our form coverage kicks off on Friday with a full guide to the Cranbourne night meeting plus fields/colours/tips/overviews for all the other TAB action including day one of the Hobart Cup carnival.

The metro racing this Saturday is at Caulfield in Melbourne, Randwick in Sydney, Morphettville in Adelaide, Doomben in Brisbane and Ascot in Perth.

Winning Post carries full-colour liftout guides for all those meetings plus Yarra Valley (Vic/SA edition), Kembla Grange (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 (plus Hobart Cup day in the Tassie edition) 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, 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 4, while further back in the book 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.

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