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

It's a tale of two cities in the weight-for-age ranks this weekend, with middle-distance Group 1s in both Melbourne and Sydney.

The Australian Cup (2000m) is the highlight at Flemington, where import Middle Earth (pictured) comes off a win in the Australian Cup Prelude to take on All-Star Mile winner Tom Kitten. The Roy Higgins, the ATA/Bob Hoysted Handicap, the World Pool Sprint Classic and the Breeders' Stakes are on the undercard.

The main event at Rosehill is over slightly further, with the Tancred Stakes (2400m) taking centre stage. In other highlights the Oaks-bound fillies clash in the Vinery Stud Stakes and the Derby hopefuls meet in the Tulloch Stakes, while the Emancipation, the Neville Sellwood, the Doncaster Prelude, the Star Kingdom and the Baillieu Handicap round out the black type.

The Adelaide autumn warms up with the running of the Clare Lindop and the Matrice at Morphettville while it's Supremacy Stakes day at Ascot.

Our form coverage kicks off on Friday with a full guide to the Cranbourne night meeting (plus Launceston in the Tassie edition) and fields/colours/tips/overviews for all the other TAB action.

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

Winning Post carries full-colour liftout guides for all those meetings plus bet365 Park Kyneton (Vic/SA edition), Wyong (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 including Wellington Boot day 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.

Winning Post is out first thing Friday in newsagents across Australia and costs $6.