A competitive end-of-season three-year-old race at Caulfield looms as an important stepping stone to the spring carnival for Yesterday's Songs.

The Mike Moroney-trained Yesterday's Songs is due to make his first appearance in Saturday city company after an elevated temperature forced him out of a race at Caulfield early this month.

Moroney has a good opinion of Yesterday's Songs but knows he needs to keep lifting his rating and progress through the grades if he is to get a chance in stakes company in the spring.

"He looks very good. The more we do with him, the more we are really liking him," Moroney said.

"We would have liked to have got him going earlier than this as a three-year-old but he just kept going shinsore and was a bit of a slow-maturing horse. It looks like he might be worth the wait."

Yesterday's Songs pleased Moroney in winning a Flemington jump-out last Friday and the trainer said he appeared to be over the minor setback which stopped him from running a few weeks ago.

"He had an elevated temperature and it didn't come down so we just had to scratch him," Moroney said.

Yesterday's Songs was a fast-finishing third on debut at Bendigo in May before blitzing his opposition by 5-1/2 lengths in a 1300m Sandown maiden six weeks ago.

Yesterday's Songs is the $3 TAB fixed odds favourite for the Myrtle Lineham Centenary Plate (1400m) in a race which includes first-up Listed Creswick Series Final winner Pyrrolic and the unbeaten Jason Warren-trained Baron Archer.