By Mark Ryan

MELBOURNE, Aug 27 AAP - Cox Plate favourite Shoot Out can create history by winning Saturday's Group Two Memsie Stakes at Caulfield, and the star four-year-old is favoured to do just that.

Shoot Out would become the first horse to complete the Bletchingly Stakes-JJ Liston Stakes-Memsie Stakes treble in the same year.

Super Elegant went closest, winning the first two legs of the treble in 2003 and going down by just a half-head to Le Zagaletta in the Memsie.

Regal Roller was the last of four horses to have completed the Liston-Memsie double in 2004, the others being Zambari (1973), Lord (1958) and Syntax (1957).

But records such as those mean little to Gold Coast trainer John Wallace who is simply looking forward to Shoot Out taking on the star-studded line-up in Saturday's 1400m feature.

Among his 12 rivals are five-time Group One winner Typhoon Tracy, Cox Plate winner So You Think, VRC Oaks winner Faint Perfume, Caulfield Guineas and Yalumba Stakes winner Whobegotyou and Rosehill Guineas winner Zabrasive.

Wallace said he was looking forward to the challenge and had not altered his training routine from being relatively easy on the gelding and letting him show what he can do on race day.

"I can't wait. He's done everything right," Wallace said.

"On Tuesday he went 1000 metres in evens and he dashed home the last 400 metres. He was pulling Dan (his track rider) out of the saddle.

"And on Thursday he went 1200 metres in evens.

"I haven't killed him and he'll be there at the 1400 metres."

Wallace said he would leave riding tactics on Shoot Out, who drew barrier six, up to regular jockey Stathi Katsidis.

"I would think he'll be handy. He's racing more forward these days and I'm sure Stathi will have it worked out," he said.

Peter Moody said Typhoon Tracy would go forward from barrier 10 in a race that didn't appear to have a lot of speed.

"She's such a brilliant beginner and she usually lands a length in front of them, and with a lot of these staying-type horses resuming you wouldn't think they'd be digging up underneath her," Moody said.

"To give her a shot at glory we are aiming for and training her for the Cox Plate and I'd suggest she's done more work going into this preparation than she's ever done previously.

"She looks big and strong and healthy for that whereas I don't think she would have coped in the past.

"Of some concern is whether that might dull her for her first-up run whereas in the past she's been trained as a sprinter-miler and raced sensationally fresh."

The rail is out 10m and the track was rated a slow (6) on Friday.

There is little between Shoot Out ($2.70 fav) and Typhoon Tracy ($3) in the TAB Sportsbet market with So You Think at $7.50, Whobegotyou at $9.50 and Faint Perfume at $11.

Meanwhile, BMW winner Littorio will miss the Memsie and the rest of the spring after suffering a suspensory injury.