Winning Post Preview Pod

It’s the start of the 2026 Melbourne Cup carnival and as usual we kick off with a cracking Derby day card. There’s also some big cash on offer in Sydney with the $10 million Golden Eagle up for grabs.

The Cox Plate was always going to be different this year at its temporary home of Flemington while Moonee Valley gets reconstructed. Maybe it’ll be even more different with a bolter winning it after so many years of favourites. It’s that sort of race, with three horses vying for favouritism and not many you can put a pen through.

We’re in for a cracking weekend of racing action with the 150th running of the Caulfield Cup and the $20 million Everest, which will see the world’s best sprinter Ka Ying Rising shoot for back-to-back wins in the big sprint race.

The Caulfield Guineas has provided us with some memorable stoushes. Could we be in for another between Melbourne’s best colt Blind Raise and Sydney’s best colt Warwoven? The Guineas highlights a fantastic day at Caulfield that also includes the Toorak and the Might and Power.

Two fantastic race cards highlight a huge Saturday of racing, but do the weather gods look set to leave their mark on the day? Massive rainfall predicted on Saturday in both Melbourne and Sydney has punters looking for the wet form. The boys have it all covered on this week’s podcast.

Guest House is favoured to take out the Golden Rose on Saturday and become the first colt to do the Slipper/Rose double. But the Run to the Rose form has proved superior to the San Domenico form in the past. Who will come out on top in one of the most important 3YO races on the calendar?

It’s a huge day at Caulfield featuring the Group 1 double of the Underwood and Sir Rupert Clarke Stakes’. And in Sydney the country’s best, Autumn Glow, has scared off her rivals in the Seven Sunrise Stakes. It’s a jam-packed podcast!

The spring continues to heat up with the Group 1 Makybe Diva Stakes taking centre stage this Saturday. Sheza Alibi will start an odds-on favourite after her super return behind Autumn Glow. Tune in to hear who the boys like across the huge Flemington program.

Everest contenders in Sydney and Melbourne will put up their hand on Saturday in a pair of rich 1000-metre sprint races. The Group 1 Moir, run at Sandown this year, sees 3yo filly Natural Fling line up for just her fourth start. Does she warrant favouritism?

What a cracking Memsie Stakes we are in for at Caulfield on Saturday! Almost all of the runners are legitimate winning chances and the boys, while differing in their on-top selections, aren’t seeing the race too differently.