Fiorente will shorten dramatically for the Melbourne Cup after his eye catching performance in winning the Dato’Tan Chin Nam Stakes, at Moonee Valley.

He had to circle the entire field to get a crack at the leaders; he wasn’t even in the picture with 20 metres left to run.

The quality of the race was not your average weight for age field, particularly after the on course scratching of Happy Trails, never the less nothing could be taken from the winner.

Fiorente finished second in the Melbourne Cup last year, to Green Moon; at his first start here he will be a different horse now that he is fully acclimatised.

Gai Waterhouse has nursed this horse along with just one thought in mind, the first Tuesday in November.

She has only given him the one run in Sydney, when he finished well running third in the All Aged Stakes to, All Too Hard at Randwick.

Super Cool would have lost no admirers after running fourth to Fiorente from a Caulfield Cup point of view, he was hemmed in on the fence all the way up the straight with nowhere to go, under the circumstances is was a good run.

He has won at weight for age in the Australian Cup, and was only beaten by the narrowest of margins in the V R C Derby.

Fiorente - Mows them down