Tony McEvoy expects the form lines around French import Mouro to stand up, putting him right in the finish of Saturday's Group One Toorak Handicap at Caulfield.

In the Listed Rowley Mile at Hawkesbury in May, Mouro edged subsequent Doomben Cup winner Beaten Up by a half head with fellow Toorak entrant Speediness third before the latter got the better of Mouro by a slender margin in the Scone Cup.

At his first start since the Scone Cup, Speediness won the Group Three Bobbie Lewis Quality on September 7 and ran a close fourth in the Group One Sir Rupert Clarke Stakes.

Mouro has had one spring start for a second in 1400m open handicap on September 21 at Caulfield.

With 54.5kg and big-race specialist Glen Boss aboard, McEvoy believes Mouro has all the trappings to push the more-fancied horses like last year's winner Solzhenitsyn and David Hayes' last-start winner Bass Strait.

"If the form lines are true, which I'm sure they are, it gives our horse a good chance," McEvoy said.

Early punters have latched on to the depth of Mouro's form with the TAB reporting an $18 to $9.50 move for the five-year-old.

McEvoy operates stables at Angaston in South Australia and Hawkesbury in NSW. A decade ago he was in charge of Lindsay Park, taking over the stable when Peter Hayes died while his brother David was training in Hong Kong.

Among the horses McEvoy trained was Fields Of Omagh who ran second to Roman Arch in the Toorak Handicap in 2003 and went on to win the Cox Plate at his next start.

Mouro remains in the running for a start in the $3 million Cox Plate which McEvoy considers a long shot.

"If he happened to win the Toorak we would look a bit silly if we weren't in the Cox Plate but it is a bit of a dream," McEvoy said.

"Fields Of Omagh. That's what I'm basing myself on. I've got very fond memories of that."

Fields Of Omagh won the Cox Plate again in 2006 following Hayes' return to the fold but bypassed that year's Toorak.

Mouro will start from barrier 10 but McEvoy said the speed had drawn wide, with the likes of Bass Strait, Dany The Fox and Speediness out there with him.

"He is flexible where he races, forward or back, and that's something Glen will sort out, but with the speed out wide it will allow Glen to dictate to them and work out what he wants to do," said McEvoy.