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

Make sure you've well and truly recovered from your new-year festivities by Friday, because there's study to do ahead of a cracking first weekend of racing for 2025.

At the Gold Coast, the Magic Millions carnival kicks off with a massive meeting led by one of Australia's newest slot races, the $3 million Magic Millions Sunlight, where Kelly Schweida's all-conquering colt Grafterburners will be taking on some of Australia's best three-year-old sprinters.

The support card on day one of the Magic Millions includes a $250,000 Sunlight consolation, the $1 million MM Syndicate, the $500,000 MM Wave and four more $250,000 races.

Further south, the action returns to Flemington for the Group 3 Standish Handicap while the main NSW racing is at Wyong, where the $500,000 Lakes is up for grabs.

Our form coverage kicks off on Friday with a full form guide for Pakenham's night meeting (plus Launceston in the Tassie edition), as well as fields, colours and tips for the other Friday TAB meetings. 

The metro racing this Saturday is at Flemington in Melbourne, Wyong in NSW, Murray Bridge in SA, the Gold Coast in Queensland and Ascot in Perth.

Winning Post carries full-colour liftout guides for all those meetings plus Cranbourne (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 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 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 NSW, four 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 covers 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.