Trusting will wear blinkers for the first time when he tries to pull off a rare first-up win in the Newmarket Handicap at Flemington on Saturday.John Thompson, private trainer for Nathan Tinkler's Patinack Farm Racing Syndicate, has employed the gear as he tries to get his first Group One win on the board in the time-honoured $1 million 1200m sprint feature.Trusting wore the blinkers when race jockey Craig Williams rode him in an 800m jumpout down the Flemington straight course on Tuesday mornin

Trusting will wear blinkers for the first time when he tries to pull off a rare first-up win in the Newmarket Handicap at Flemington on Saturday.

John Thompson, private trainer for Nathan Tinkler's Patinack Farm Racing Syndicate, has employed the gear as he tries to get his first Group One win on the board in the time-honoured $1 million 1200m sprint feature.

Trusting wore the blinkers when race jockey Craig Williams rode him in an 800m jumpout down the Flemington straight course on Tuesday morning.

The Tale Of The Cat colt finished third of four to Light Fantastic.

"We were just experimenting. We've been working him in slow work in blinkers and trialled him with them on and it really sharpened him up," Thompson said.

"I think he needs them on in a race like the Newmarket because he's one of those horses who gets his head up and thinks a bit and they might focus him up.

"If there is hot speed early he'll probably be out the back and hitting the line.

"It's a nice starting off point for him up the straight."

Trusting drew the middle of the track in barrier 10 in the 19-horse field so Williams can decide which section he wants to go to.

The colt, who has won two of his six starts including the Group Two Warwick Stakes (1400m) at Randwick in August, hasn't raced since finishing eighth to Starspangledbanner in the Caulfield Guineas (1600m) when he settled too far back in a leader-dominated race.

Thompson said the runner-up to Denman in the Group One Golden Rose (1400m) at Rosehill late last August had really come on since running sixth of eight in an 800m Warwick farm barrier trial on February 12.

"We were all a bit disappointed with his first trial but there were circumstances around that," he said.

"He was playing around a little bit in the barriers and missed the kick but thankfully Craig didn't knock him around. He wasn't ready to have a hard trial and he's just progressed each week that's gone by.

"He's got fitter and fitter and I couldn't be happier with the jumpout, it was fantastic."

After the Newmarket, Thompson will take the colt back to Sydney for three races over the autumn carnival.

"He'll have two weight-for-age runs in the Canterbury Stakes and the George Ryder and then he'll go into the Doncaster," he said.

Trusting, fellow three-year-old King Pulse and 2007 Cox Plate winner El Segundo are striving to become the first horse to win the Newmarket first-up in nearly a century.

Polycrates was the last to do it 93 years ago in 1917.

Trusting is at $18 with TAB Sportsbet while the Grahame Begg-trained All Silent, who drew barrier 17, remains steady as $4.50 favourite.

A notoriously sluggish trackworker, the Belong To Me six-year-old finished a clear last to Light Fantastic in Tuesday's jumpout.

But he didn't have blinkers on which Begg said he needs to switch him on.

"He pulled up really well. I wouldn't read much into it, that's him," Begg said.