Reigning Cox Plate favourite So You Think and one of his main rivals, Shoot Out, could clash as soon as the J J Liston Stakes at Caulfield on August 14.A determined win over 1200 metres in Saturday's Bletchingly Stakes has catapulted AJC Australian Derby winner Shoot Out up the markets for the major spring features.Trainer John Wallace deliberately started his campaign early with many of Shoot Out's potential competitors still stepping up their pre-race preparations.So You Think and Faint Perfum

Reigning Cox Plate favourite So You Think and one of his main rivals, Shoot Out, could clash as soon as the J J Liston Stakes at Caulfield on August 14.

A determined win over 1200 metres in Saturday's Bletchingly Stakes has catapulted AJC Australian Derby winner Shoot Out up the markets for the major spring features.

Trainer John Wallace deliberately started his campaign early with many of Shoot Out's potential competitors still stepping up their pre-race preparations.

So You Think and Faint Perfume warmed up for their major spring assignments with jumpouts at Flemington on Friday.

Duncan Ramage, bloodstock manager for their owner Dato Tan Chin Nam, said both horses pleased in their respective 800m trials with Blake Shinn coming down from Sydney to ride them.

"They were more than satisfactory at this early stage of their preparations," he said.

He said Cummings would decide when So You Think and Faint Perfume resumed but the Liston and the Memsie Stakes were under consideration at this stage.

"The Liston might come a week too quick so probably the Memsie, but that would be fine tuned by Bart after their next few serious hit outs.

"There's the Makybe Diva if Bart wants to go a mile that early in the preparation.

"Then you've got the Dato Tan (Chin Nam) and the mares race, the Stocks Stakes, for Faint Perfume at the Valley, again over the mile.

"They'll basically troop through the weight-for-age races with So You Think targeting to go through to the Underwood and the Caulfield Stakes which would seem to be the best races leading into the Cox Plate.

"And Faint Perfume would probably run two weeks before the Caulfield Cup (in the Turnbull Stakes) in an ideal world.

"Bart has always targeted races and it's up to him to get them through to their targets."

Faint Perfume is the early favourite with corporate bookmakers for both the Caulfield and Melbourne Cups while So You Think is favourite for the Cox Plate.

Nominations for the major spring races will be taken on Tuesday with TAB Sportsbet to release its markets on Thursday.