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Australasia's weight-for-age championship is here, with a new, one-off venue (Flemington) as Sir Delius looks to become the first winner of the great race for training legend Gai Waterhouse.

The Drummond Golf Vase for the derby hopefuls, the Fillies Classic, the Crystal Mile and the Moonee Valley Gold Cup are on the undercard, while at Randwick the features are the Group 1 $2 million Spring Champion, the $2 million Invitation for fillies and mares and the $1 million Callander-Presnell for the three-year-old milers.

The weekend kicks off with The Valley's Cox Plate eve card at Cranbourne on Friday night, while Sunday's highlights include cup days at Sale and Coonabarabran. We've got full form guides for all three.

Our form coverage kicks off on Friday with a full form guide for The Valley (plus Launceston in the Tassie edition), as well as fields, colours and tips for the other Friday TAB meetings.

The metro racing this Saturday is at The Valley in Melbourne, Randwick in NSW, Morphettville in SA, Doomben in Brisbane and Ascot in Perth.

Winning Post carries full-colour liftout guides for all those meetings plus bet365 Yarra Valley (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 two more TAB meetings 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.

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

Our readers have their say on page 5, while elsewhere in the book Shane Templeton reminisces, Matt Stewart covers the big issues of the day and Paul Richards presents his unique take on the sport.

s available Thursday afternoon online ($5), the crack of dawn Friday in shops.

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Inside Winning Post October 24 edition you'll find liftout form guides for:

Friday:

The Valley @ Cranbourne, Launceston (Tas edition)

Saturday:

Flemington, Randwick, Morphettville, Doomben, Ascot, Traralgon (Vic/SA edition), Newcastle (NSW edition), Gold Coast (Qld edition)

Sunday:

Mornington, Muswellbrook

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.

Flemington Saturday - R5 N5 Smooth Chino

Flemington Saturday - R7 N11 King Pedro

Flemington Saturday - R8 N10 Aeliana

Flemington Saturday - R9 N9 Perfect Ten

Royal Randwick Saturday - R5 N5 Omolong

Royal Randwick Saturday - R6 N2 Tom Kitten

Royal Randwick Saturday - R7 N3 Scarole

Royal Randwick Saturday - R9 N7 Welcometotheshow

Royal Randwick Saturday - R10 N1 Estadio Mestalla

Results

Letter of the Week

You can run into a good one ...

Memories came flooding back after Shako won the first race at the Sunshine Coast last Friday.
Back in the late 1960s, Adelaide’s top two-year-old was trained by Ab Macdonald. His name was also Shako and after winning the Fulham Park Plate down the straight five (1000m) at Victoria Park and the Balcrest Stakes at Cheltenham, he went to Melbourne.
Ridden by Bob Cox and starting favorite in the Debutant Stakes over 4½ furlongs (900m) at Caulfield on October 12, 1968, he happened to run into a first-starter — a freak called Vain who started at the amazing odds of 6/1.
It’s history now Vain went on to win 12 of his 14 starts and was retired to stud after a track mishap in 1969.

Grahame Rogers
Lobethal (SA)