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

One of the great weekends on the Australian sporting calendar is upon us, with the AFL grand final, the NRL preliminary finals and Group 1 racing in two cities.

We kick off on Friday night, as the Valley lights return. Opening night is headlined by the Group 1 Manikato Stakes (1000m), where top mare Lady Shenandoah will be hard to beat.

Rosehill is the venue in Sydney on Saturday for the Golden Rose and Golden Pendant.

Saturday's Melbourne racing is at Sandown, where the Group 3 Sandown Stakes and the Group 2 1000 Guineas Prelude are the features.

Queensland metro action is at Toowoomba for the Weetwood Handicap while it's Westspeed Spring Final day at Belmont.

Our form coverage kicks off on Friday with a full form guide for The Valley (and Benalla in the Vic/SA edition), plus fields, colours and tips for the other Friday TAB meetings.

The metro racing this Saturday is at Sandown in Melbourne, Rosehill in Sydney, Morphettville in Adelaide, Toowoomba in Queensland and Belmont in Perth.

Winning Post carries full-colour liftout guides for all those meetings plus 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 three more TAB meetings including Ansett Classic day at Mornington and Dubbo Cup day (plus Devonport in the Tassie edition) 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 ($7) is in shops first thing Friday morning.