When the former Sir Michael Stoute-trained Fiorente failed by only a length to peg back Green Moon in the 2012 renewal of the Emirates Melbourne Cup, the plan was seemingly hatched there and then to return to the Flemington circuit for another crack at the ‘race that stops a nation’ - and go one better.

Fiorente joined the Gai Waterhouse stable on the day of the big race last year having previously proved himself a useful performer in Britain.

Under Stoute’s guidance, he won the Group 2 Princess of Wales’s Stakes at Newmarket, having been beaten just a neck by the high-class Nathaniel the previous year in the 2011 King Edward VII Stakes at Royal Ascot. The son of Monsun was also placed in other good races on a number of occasions.

The five-year-old signalled his liking for his new life in Australia with that terrific effort in last year’s Melbourne Cup and has since gone on to prove that performance no fluke, running third at racing betting odds of 5.1 in the Group 1 Yarraman Park All Aged Stakes at Randwick in April over an inadequate seven furlongs.

He then scored over a mile at Moonee Valley in September, taking the Group 2 Dato Tan Chin Nam Stakes. He was beaten just half-a-length in a four-way go for the Group 1 Turnbull Stakes at Flemington a few weeks later, before well and truly advertising his credentials at Moonee Valley on October 26, running a blinder under Blake Shinn to finish a close third to Shamus Award over the 10-furlongs of the Sportingbet Cox Plate.

With the longer trip sure to suit and every indication that he is in peak condition, Fiorente is now a general 7.0 shot with racing live betting outlets for the Melbourne Cup on November 5, and with luck-in-running seems sure to give another very good account of himself.