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

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.)