Scouting Wide will be closer to the speed in Saturday's Listed Christmas Cup at Rosehill with trainer Tim Martin hopeful of turning the tables on Star Ripper.Punters are going cold on Scouting Wide who has drifted from $3.80 to $4.20 second favourite on TAB Sportsbet fixed odds for the 2400-metre feature.A small field of eight lines up in the Christmas Cup in which the Bart Cummings-trained Star Ripper was the $2.30 favourite on Friday.Scouting Wide was 2-1/2 lengths second to Star Ripper on Ran

Scouting Wide will be closer to the speed in Saturday's Listed Christmas Cup at Rosehill with trainer Tim Martin hopeful of turning the tables on Star Ripper.

Punters are going cold on Scouting Wide who has drifted from $3.80 to $4.20 second favourite on TAB Sportsbet fixed odds for the 2400-metre feature.

A small field of eight lines up in the Christmas Cup in which the Bart Cummings-trained Star Ripper was the $2.30 favourite on Friday.

Scouting Wide was 2-1/2 lengths second to Star Ripper on Randwick's Kensington track over Saturday's distance on November 28.

He settled in second-last spot in the field of eight, just behind Star Ripper, and jockey Tye Angland made a move on Scouting Wide before the 600 metres and was fourth when they straightened.

Star Ripper then clicked into gear and the race was in the bag a long way out while the Gai Waterhouse-trained Merensky Reef was a half-head away third.

Merensky Reef is the third favourite for the Christmas Cup at $4.60.

"Star Ripper beat us quite convincingly, he was too good for us, but I'm hoping we can turn the tables on him," Martin said.

"He'll be ridden closer this time for sure, he had to sustain a long run last time and it proved his undoing.

"I really can't fault the horse since his last start, he's done very well and is fit and ready to go."

Two starts back Scouting Wide was ridden closer and, after settling in second spot, went on to defeat Merensky Reef by a half-head over Saturday's distance at Rosehill on November 14.

Star Ripper has been in blazing form and a win on Saturday will give him four in a row.

A son of Dane Ripper who Cummings trained to win the 1997 Cox Plate, Star Ripper has burst onto the scene over the past month with wins over 2000, 2200 and 2400 metres.

Cummings has attributed Star Ripper's brilliant form to the four-year-old's maturity and a gelding operation.

Dothis Dothat from the stable of six-time Christmas Cup winning-trainer Paul Cave has tightened from $35 into $26 on TAB Sportsbet.

Cave has previously won the Christmas Cup with Prince Weyand (1981), Lahar (1998), Pasta Express (1999), Airlie Bird (2002), Sadarar (2003) and most recently Taken At The Flood three years ago.