Star Jewel set to sparkle after Green Moon wanes Brett Prebble riding Green Moon after a track gallop at Caulfield Racecourse in August. Melbourne Cup winner Green Moon has been scratched from Saturday's Caulfield Stakes, adding to the pressure on star mare Atlantic Jewel. Owner Lloyd Williams told Racing Victoria stewards Green Moon had an elevated temperature and would not run, leaving only five starters in the weight-for-age group 1 event. Atlantic Jewel is coming off being out-toughed by triple crown winner It's A Dundeel in the Underwood Stakes and trainer Mark Kavanagh made it clear at a media call on Friday what he thought of the defeat. "She has raced over 2000 metres before and has been a winner," Kavanagh said, referring to her seven-length win in the Wakeful Stakes as three-year-old. There is a question mark there, but if you get done a short half-head by It's A Dundeel at 1800m, I don't think she's got a problem with the distance. Atlantic Jewel remains favourite for the Cox Plate and was a $1.35 chance for the Caulfield Stakes with Betstar after the scratching. Her stablemate Super Cool, which finished midfield in last Saturday's Turnbull Stakes, is $5 second pick. Kavanagh has not ruled out starting him in the Caulfield Cup next week. "The trick with the springtime is to have your horse right on the day of the right race that you target, and we have our options open," Kavanagh said. There is a mile-and-a-half handicap next Saturday, which would mean three weeks in a row, but looking at the horse here today he may very well need the run to bring him up to his peak. The likely composition of the Caulfield Cup will become clearer after the Herbert Power Handicap, in which seven horses will try to force their way into next weekend's feature event. Sea Moon, Kesampour, Moudre, Oasis Bloom, Motivado, Let's Make Adeal and Goldoni all paid the third declarations earlier in the week hoping to follow in the hoofprints of Master O'Reilly, in 2007 the last horse to complete the Herbert Power-Caulfield Cup double. Tanby and Irish-trained Simenon will also run in the Herbert Power, but appear to have safely made the cup field Bass Strait and France's Treviers will seek the exemption from the Caulfield Cup ballot on offer in Toorak Handicap. Earlier in the week, Williams had ruled out starting Green Moon in the Caulfield Cup, in which he is top weight, meaning the weights will have to be raised. However, he might reconsider after the horse missed the run in the Caulfield Stakes. He had planned for Green Moon to follow the same path to the Melbourne Cup as last year by running the import in the Cox Plate. Meanwhile, the hearing into allegations of administering a race-day treatment against South Australian trainer Paul Beshara will resume at Racing Victoria on Monday. Beshara had a marathon day in front of stewards on Friday answering charges regarding a treatment discovered during a raid by stewards at his Caulfield stable just hours before Happy Trails was due to run in the Dato Tan Chin Nam Stakes at Moonee Valley last month.