This week in Winning Post

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

The focus stays firmly on the Gold Coast this Saturday for the climax of the Magic Millions carnival on the Gold Coast, Queensland's richest raceday featuring the $2 million Magic Millions Classic and Magic Millions Guineas as well as a quality-packed support card.

As you'd expect, Ciaron Maher has a strong hand across the card including Sandown Guineas-winning filly Snitzanova in the Guineas.

Meanwhile it's Group 3 Standish Handicap day at Flemington, while Wyong takes centre stage in NSW for the running of The Lakes, a new $500,000 race over 1600 metres. It's Miss Andretti Stakes day at Ascot.

Our form coverage kicks off on Friday with a full form guide for the Cranbourne night meeting (as well as bet365 Hamilton in the Vic/SA edition and Launceston in the Tasmanian edition), plus fields, colours, previews and tips for a stack more Friday 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 Eagle Farm (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 four Victorian training tracks, three in Sydney, Morphettville in Adelaide and a general Brisbane report.

Away from the form, we've got news columns from NSW, six 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.

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Inside Winning Post January 4 edition you'll find liftout form guides for:
Friday:
Pakenham, Launceston (Tas edition)
Saturday:
Flemington, Wyong, Murray Bridge, Gold Coast, Ascot, Cranbourne (Vic/SA edition), Kembla Grange (NSW edition), Eagle Farm (Qld edition)
Sunday:
Warrnambool, Stony Creek, Coffs Harbour
If I see a good fixed odds price pre race day
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.
Royal Randwick Saturday - R6 N4 Fiddlers Green 7th
Royal Randwick Saturday - R10 N2 West Of Africa SCR
Ladbrokes Geelong Saturday - R5 N4 Luna Cat 3rd
Ladbrokes Geelong Saturday - R8 N1 Holymanz 1st
Sunshine Coast Saturday - R5 N9 Moravia 2nd
Results
Today's Racing
Sunday 5 January
Monday 6 January
Tuesday 7 January
Social Networking

Paul Richards introduces a fun formula each week designed to come up with the odd winner for those looking for a small interest or to see if systems really work. On this page he subjects Saturday's fields to one of those systems: