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

The big sporting action is in the west this week, and Christmas will come early for one set of connections this Saturday when the $1.5 million weight-for-age Gold Rush (1400m) highlights the Ascot program in Perth.

High-class Victorian sprinter-miler Ayrton has always shown top-shelf potential and the Gold Rush gives him his chance to land a really big prize. Victory would see him more than double his current $800,000 prizemoney bank.

Back east, the Brisbane summer continues to warm up with the running of the Grand Prix, Gold Edition and Lough Neagh at Eagle Farm. It's December Handicap day at Randwick, while elsewhere the racing is at Caulfield and Gawler.

Our form coverage kicks off on Friday with a full form guide for The Valley, plus fields, colours and tips for the other Friday TAB meetings. 

The metro racing this Saturday is at Caulfield in Melbourne, Randwick in Sydney, Gawler in SA, Eagle Farm in Brisbane and Ascot in Perth.

Winning Post carries full-colour liftout guides for all those meetings plus bet365 Colac (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 (plus Hobart in the Tassie edition) as well as fields, ratings, tips and colours for a stack more Sunday and Monday programs, including Hong Kong's big international day.

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.

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

Our readers have their say on page 6, 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.

Winning Post costs $6 and is available Thursday afternoon online ($5), the crack of dawn Friday in shops.