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The Group 1 action heads to Queensland for the first time this season on Saturday as the elite sprinters match motors over 1200 metres in the Doomben 10,000, where smart local colt Grafterburners will be looking to graduate to top-level success.

Support races at Doomben include the Group 2 Spirit Of Boom Classic for the two-year-olds, the Group 3 Rough Habit Plate for three-year-olds, the Group 3 Chairman's Handicap for the middle-distance types and two listed races.

Scone takes centre stage in NSW with the running of five stakes races led by the Group 3 Dark Jewel, while the Victorian winter series heats continue as racing returns to Flemington.

In the west, it's opening day at Belmont.

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

The metro racing this Saturday is at Flemington in Melbourne, Scone in NSW, Morphettville in Adelaide, Doomben in Brisbane and Belmont in Perth.

Winning Post carries full-colour liftout guides for all those meetings plus Wodonga (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 including cup days at Casterton and Parkes (plus Devonport 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 reporters around the nation.

Our readers have their say on page 96, while elswhere in the book Shane Templeton reminisces, Paul Richards presents his unique take on the sport, Matt Stewart reports 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:

Flemington, Scone, Morphettville, Doomben, Belmont, Wodonga (Vic/SA edition), Kembla Grange (NSW edition), Gold Coast (Qld edition)

Sunday:

Sale, Casterton, Parkes, Devonport (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.

Caulfield Saturday - R5 N1 Highlights 9th

Caulfield Saturday - R8 N1 Land Legend 9th

Gosford Saturday - R6 N5 Bella Montagna 4th

Gosford Saturday - R6 N10 King of the Sea 3rd

Gosford Saturday - R8 N11 Sir Dinadan 8th

Gosford Saturday - R9 N11 You Wahng 8th

Morphettville Saturday - R8 N13 Flying For Fun 9th

Morphettville Saturday - R8 N7 Tycoon Star 5th

Aquis Park Gold Coast Saturday - R7 N6 Militarize 6th

Aquis Park Gold Coast Saturday - R8 N12 Motorsports 3rd

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)