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The Adelaide carnival reaches its climax this Saturday with the running of the $1 million Group 1 Goodwood and we've got it covered in your whirlaway Winning Post.

Support races at Morphettville include the Cummings Stakes (formerly R.A. Lee) for the milers, the SA Fillies Classic, the Proud Miss for the sprinting mares, the David Coles AM Stakes for the two-year-olds and the Centaurea Stakes for the middle-distance mares.

The Queensland carnival warms up with the Hollindale Stakes at the Gold Coast, where cups double hero Half Yours steps up to 1800m in the weight-for-age Holindale Stakes. The Gold Coast Guineas, Ken Russell Classic, Gold Coast Bracelet, Silk Stocking, ATC Cup, Gold Coast Cup and Bat Out Of Hell are on the undercard.

Gosford takes centre stage in NSW with the running of the $500,000 Coast, the Gosford Gold Cup and the Takeover Target.

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

The metro racing this Saturday is at Caulfield in Melbourne, Gosford in NSW, Morphettville in Adelaide, the Gold Coast in Queensland and Ascot in Perth.

Winning Post carries full-colour liftout guides for all those meetings plus Ararat (Vic/SA edition), Kembla Grange (NSW edition) and Ipswich (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 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 elsewhere in the book Shane Templeton reminisces, Paul Richards presents his unique take on the sport, Matt Stewart weighs in on the big issues and Number Cruncher delivers the stats that matter.

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Inside Winning Post May 9 edition you'll find liftout form guides for:

Saturday:

Caulfield, Gosford, Morphettville, Gold Coast, Ascot, Ararat (Vic/SA edition), Kembla Grange (NSW edition), Ipswich (Qld edition)

Sunday:

Ballarat, Mornington, Mudgee, Hobart (Tas edition)

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.

Hawkesbury Saturday - R6 N6 Regal Award 5th

Morphettville Saturday - R5 N10 Tropical House 5th

Morphettville Saturday - R7 N11 Tiptop Tori 1st

Morphettville Saturday - R8 N11 Cannae 11th

Bendigo Saturday - R7 N12 Street Artist 5th

Eagle Farm Saturday - R7 N6 Kilman 4th

Results

Letter of the Week

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Famously, The Melbourne Cup, a film about the 1896 Melbourne Cup won by Newhaven, has been acclaimed as the main feature of Australia’s first locally produced cinema program, successfully screened at Melbourne’s Princess Theatre on November 19 of that year.
Racing on film developed down the decades from there, and by the 1930s the sport formed a popular part of newsreels shown on raceday evenings at picture shows in Melbourne and surrounds.
Fans elsewhere had to wait many days for the Melbourne Cup replay — until, that is, 1933, when Fox Movietone News set itself the bold assignment of showing Sydney evening cinemagoers footage of the Cup on the same day.
The plan was to have a half-dozen fast cars follow the race on the infield as well as cameramen stationed around the course.
Thence the film was sped to an awaiting charter flight with technicians ready to prepare the finished product on the three-hour flight from Essendon airport.
Couriers were waiting at Mascot to transport the cans to the projection room at the Regent Cinema in George Street.
In a bonus for Sydney viewers who ventured out to the pictures that night, it was a ripper Melbourne Cup, with a brave (and injured) Hall Mark completing the Derby/Cup double (as Newhaven had done 37 years earlier), and the margins a head and a head.

Bill Coomb
Woonona Beach (NSW)