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

Hard to believe it, but the first Group 1 of the new season is upon us already.

The veteran Chris Waller-trained mare Fangirl is among those poised to begin their spring campaign in the 1400-metre weight-for-age showpiece at Randwick on Saturday.

The Silver Shadow, Toy Show, Show County and Premier's Cup are the support acts at Randwick, while the Carlyon Stakes is the feature at The Valley's meeting at Sandown.

At Morphettville it's Leon Macdonald Stakes day.

Our coverage kicks off on Friday with a full form guide for Sale in the Victorian and Tasmanian editions, plus fields, colours and tips for the other Friday TAB meetings.

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

Winning Post carries full-colour liftout guides for all those meetings plus Newcastle (NSW edition) and Cairns (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 Goulburn Cup 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 all four Melbourne training tracks, all three in Sydney, Morphettville in Adelaide and a general Brisbane report.

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Western Victoria: Rantall rides, flies, drives and wins .................................................................................................................................................

Country NSW: They didn't rush and now she's ready .................................................................................................................................................

Central Victoria: Unflappable Camp brightens Hopes' day .................................................................................................................................................

SA: Darryl eyes Saddle for super-tough Sir .................................................................................................................................................

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Inside Winning Post August 15 edition you'll find liftout form guides for:

Friday:

Sale (Vic/Tas edition)

Saturday:

Sandown, Randwick, Morphettville, Doomben, Belmont, Newcastle (NSW edition), Cairns (Qld edition)

Sunday:

Wangaratta, Goulburn, Narromine

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 - R1 N3 Naval Academy 5th

Caulfield Saturday - R2 N16 Aeolian 9th

Caulfield Saturday - R6 N15 Santa Barbara 11th

Caulfield Saturday - R9 N13 Darkbonee 1st

Rosehill Gardens Saturday - R7 N3 Grand Impact 2nd

Rosehill Gardens Saturday - R7 N8 Istolea Merc 3rd

Results

Letter of the Week

Small is beautiful

Richo’s column on rebuilding racing from scratch (25/7) included lots of great ideas and some not so good.
I am very much with his idea of restricting any one trainer to a maximum of three horses in each race.
In fact, running off that thought, it’s time the principal race clubs sought to restrict the number of horses that a trainer can have.
It’s crazy the big boys having 500-plus on their books.
It’s just squashing the smaller trainer and young trainers trying to get a foot in the door.
Surely 200-250 is enough for the Maher/Wallers of the world to get by.
They will still get all the bluebloods anyway.

Greg Walker
Ballina (NSW)