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One of the great carnivals of world racing kicks off this Saturday with one of the purists' highlights of the Melbourne spring, Caulfield Guineas day.

The cream of Australia's three-year-old milers led by boom gelding Blind Raise will battle it out in the main event while the middle-distance weight-for-agers have their final Cox Plate tune-up in the Might And Power and the handicap milers duke it out in the Toorak Handicap.

Meanwhile there's big bucks on offer at Rosehill, where the card is headed by the $2 million Hill Stakes, the $1.5 million Alan Brown Stakes, the $500,000 Tapp-Craig and the $500,000 Gloaming Stakes.

It's Queensland Cup day at Eagle Farm and opening day at Ascot.

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

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

Winning Post carries full-colour liftout guides for all those meetings plus Hamilton (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 Seymour and Coonamble cup days 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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Inside Winning Post October 3 edition you'll find liftout form guides for:

Friday:

Cranbourne, Launceston (Tas edition)

Saturday:

Flemington, Randwick, Murray Bridge, Eagle Farm, Kalgoorlie, Murtoa (Vic/SA edition), Newcastle (NSW edition), Gold Coast (Qld edition),

Sunday:

Bendigo, Cootamundra

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 - R9 N4 Hedged 9th

Flemington Saturday - R10 N2 Cafe Millenium 7th

Royal Randwick Saturday - R6 N2 Striking Alibi 6th

Royal Randwick Saturday - R7 N5 Juja Kibo 1st

Royal Randwick Saturday - R8 N3 Autumn Boy 7th

Royal Randwick Saturday - R10 N20 Amazing Eagle 7th

Results

Letter of the Week

Off and on

Here’s a crazy story from Saturday, September 19 concerning the first two events from the Ayr races in Scotland.
The first two races, having initially been abandoned, were instead run later — at the conclusion of the scheduled meeting, after race seven. Because they were initially listed as being abandoned, the TAB refunded all bets.
However, on checking with the TAB, I found out that that didn’t apply to fixed-odds bets.
Having backed a particular runner in race one (which became the new race eight) both on the tote and at fixed odds, I found it strange to have my tote bet refunded while my fixed-odds bet wasn’t.
The horse was unplaced in the new race eight.
The fact that races one and two were listed as “abandoned” by the club (when they were really postponed) exposed a serious anomaly with the procedure.
Same horses, same barriers, same jockeys, same everything — only run at a different starting time.
It’s a strange one.

Gary Watt
West Footscray (Vic)