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Group 1 racing returns to Sandown with the running of this Saturday's Moir Stakes.

Among the stars to watch in the Moir is exciting filly Natural Fling, who'll be looking to make the leap to Group 1 class at just her fourth start.

The Chautauqua and Atlantic Jewel are the support acts at Sandown, while in Sydney the action is back at Randwick for the Tatts meeting, featuring the Concorde, Chelmsford, Tramway, Furious and Tatts Club Cup.

Our form coverage kicks off on Friday with fields, colours and tips for all four Friday TAB meetings including day one of the Birdsville Cup carnival.

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

Winning Post carries full-colour liftout guides for all those meetings plus Mildura (Vic/SA/Tas edition), Hawkesbury (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 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.

The printed edition of Winning Post ($7) is in shops at the crack of dawn Friday.

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Inside Winning Post September 5 edition you'll find liftout form guides for:

Saturday:

Flemington, Rosehill, Morphettville, Doomben, Belmont, Donald (Vic/SA/Tas edition), Kembla Grange (NSW edition), Gold Coast (Qld edition)

Sunday:

Sale, Kilmore, Bathurst

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.

There are no Eye Catchers this week

Letter of the Week

Glow-up

Another $1.04 favourite got up last week with the announcement of Autumn Glow as Australia’s horse of the year.
I find it mildly disturbing that such an esteemed panel as the handicappers, stewards, administrators and media who vote for this award can have so little idea.
Time and again their recency bias comes to the fore as achievements in spring appear to carry about half as much weight as those in autumn.
No doubt Autumn Glow was very well placed through 2025/26, but her three Group 1 wins were in the Epsom (with 54.5kg, beating Fully Lit and Pericles), the Verry Elleegant (no one’s idea of a championship race) and the George Ryder (ditto).
She also won the Golden Eagle, an age-restricted event carrying no black type.
She contested one open-age championship event and got rolled by 2½ lengths with no excuses as $1.30 favourite.
When it comes to serious races open to all comers, both Via Sistina and Sir Delius had superior records.
And it’s beyond a joke that Autumn Glow was also allegedly our champion “middle-distance” galloper — she’s never won beyond 1600 metres!

Dale Scott
Cremorne (Vic)