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

The festive season is in full swing, there's plenty of racing action to enjoy and we've got it covered right here.

After a hectic Christmas period Winning Post is back to normal this week, publishing Thursday afternoon (New Year's Day) online and in shops first thing Friday.

The Queensland summer continues to heat up at Eagle Farm this Saturday with the running of the Vo Rogue Plate, the Nudgee, the Buffering, the Eagle Way and the Shoot Out. In the Vo Rogue, the Ciaron Maher-trained Icarian Dream will be looking to get 2026 off to a flying start.

Victorian racing heads for the coast, with the Coastal Classic, Black Pearl and Geelong Diamond up for grabs at Geelong.

Party season will be in full swing at Randwick while SA metro racing heads to Gawler.

In WA, it's Mandurah Cup day at Pinjarra. 

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

The metro racing this Saturday is at Geelong in Victoria, Randwick in Sydney, Gawler in SA, Eagle Farm in Brisbane and Pinjarra in WA.

Winning Post carries full-colour liftout guides for all those meetings plus the Cranbourne night meeting (Vic/SA edition), Kembla Grange (NSW edition) and Ipswich (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.

Away from the form, we've got news columns from country NSW, four Victorian districts, SA and Tasmania.

Our readers have their say on page 4, while further back in the book Shane Templeton reminisces, Paul Richards presents his unique take on the sport, Tony Kneebone brings you his Snippets column 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.