This week in Winning Post

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Some of Sydney's finest return to the racetrack this Saturday for the Group 2 Missile Stakes at Randwick.

The set-weights-and-penalites event has provided a pipe-opener for such stars as Lonhro and Dance Hero in days gone by. Among the high-quality horseflesh resuming in this Saturday's race is new-season four-year-old Napoleonic, a placegetter in the Doomben 10,000 two starts ago.

Spring is also in the air at Morphettville, where it's Behemoth Stakes day, while the Travis Harrison Cup is the feature at the MVRC meeting on the Heath track at Caulfield.

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

The metro racing this Saturday is at Caulfield Heath in Melbourne, Randwick in Sydney, Morphettville in Adelaide, Eagle Farm in Brisbane and Belmont in Perth.

Winning Post carries full-colour liftout guides for all those meetings plus Mildura (Vic/SA edition), Kembla Grange (NSW edition) and Townsville (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 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.

Winning Post costs $7 ($6 online) and is in shops first thing Friday morning.

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Inside Winning Post August 8 edition you'll find liftout form guides for:
Saturday:
Caulfield, Rosehill, Morphettville, Doomben, Belmont, Warracknabeal (Vic/SA/Tas edition), Kembla Grange (NSW edition), Gold Coast (Qld edition)
Sunday:
Ballarat. Pakenham synthetic, Wyong
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Letter of the Week

Another way to lose

On Saturday July 11 I had a bet on the jockey challenge at Donald with the NSW TAB. My favourite jockey, Alana Kelly, was my pick as she was down for seven rides on the seven-race card.
Her mount in the first, Lots Of Torque, refused to load and threw Alana out the back of the gates. Thankfully she was not seriously injured as the barrier attendants prevented what could have been a nasty incident. 
Lots Of Torque was scratched and Alana taken to the medical room. She was stood down for the rest of the meeting, which is to say she did not have a single ride for the day.
I naturally thought my bet would be refunded, but it wasn’t.
I got in touch with the TAB and was told that the jockey challenge is classed as “all-in” betting, the same as futures (i.e. pre-acceptances) betting. In other words, no money back for a scratching.
I have taken jockey-challenge bets for quite a few years now and I’ve never seen any mention of them being all-in as I place them on my laptop.
Has this happened to anyone else?
I note Alana rode at Ballarat the following day.

David Cowie
Kilaben Bay (NSW)
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Paul Richards introduces a fun formula each week designed to come up with the odd winner for those looking for a small interest or to see if systems really work. On this page he subjects Saturday's fields to one of those systems: