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 Australia's newest slot race, the $3 million Magic Millions Sunlight, where lightly raced Ballarat filly Arabian Summer 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 Victorian metro action also heads down the highway, to Geelong for the $300,000 Coastal Classic, the listed Black Pearl for fillies and mares and the $150,000 Geelong Diamond for two-year-olds.

Our form coverage kicks off on Friday with a full form guide for bet365 Stawell (plus Hobart's Tasmanian Guineas meeting 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, 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 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 NSW, five 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 $6 and is available Thursday afternoon online ($5), the crack of dawn Friday in shops.