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

It seems to get earlier every year, and believe it or not the Group 3 Monash Stakes is the feature at Caulfield this Saturday.

Once a spring launchpad for returning sprinters and weight-for-agers, the Monash has crept forward on the calendar to the point where it is now run before midwinter. This year's will be more of a goodbye than a hello for Enver Jusufovic's group-winning sprint mare New York Lustre, who's earmarked to have her second-last run before retirement in Saturday's Monash.

Elsewhere, Randwick is the venue for Sydney racing while Queensland metro racing returns to town at Doomben and the SA version heads to Gawler. In WA, the Beaufine Stakes tops the bill at Belmont.

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

The metro racing this Saturday is at Caulfield in Melbourne, Randwick in Sydney, Gawler in SA, Doomben in Brisbane and Belmont in Perth.

Winning Post carries full-colour liftout guides for all those meetings plus Donald (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 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 NSW, four 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 issues and Number Cruncher delivers the stats that matter.

Winning Post costs $7 and is available Thursday afternoon online ($6), the crack of dawn Friday in shops.