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

We've barely had time to take a breath over the festive season and already the feature racing is back with us in the lead-up to the autumn.

With January 26 falling on a Monday, your whirlaway Winning Post will be packed with quality action to keep you entertained over the long weekend, at least until Sunday.

We start on Friday night for the Group 2 Australia Stakes, to be run for the first time at Pakenham. Tassie readers also get a full guide to the Ladbrokes Stakes card at Launceston.

On Saturday the road to the Blue Diamond begins for Victoria's top two-year-olds with the Previews for males and fillies at Caulfield. 

Sydney racing is at Randwick for the Carrington Stakes featuring impressive recent Wyong winner Whinchat, while it's Sunshine Coast Cup day in southeast Queensland. The listed Durbridge Stakes tops the bill at Morphettville while the listed Scenic Blast Stakes is the feature at Ascot.

We kick on through Sunday with full guides for two more meetings.

Our form coverage kicks off on Friday with a full form guide for Pakenham as well as Launceston in the Tassie edition, plus fields, colours, previews and tips for a stack more Friday meetings.

The metro racing this Saturday is at Caulfield in Melbourne, Randwick in Sydney, Morphettville in Adelaide, the Sunshine Coast in Queensland and Ascot in Perth.

Winning Post carries full-colour liftout guides for all those meetings plus Great Western (Vic/SA edition), Newcastle (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 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 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, six 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 big 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.