Melbourne Cup hero Fiorente has finally, a bit poetically and a bit sadly, sired a two-mile Cup winner and you can buy the half-brother at Inglis Easter by a Golden Slipper winner.

The Golden Slipper picture is cloudier than ever after last weekend’s key races with five horses now exempt from ballot and boom colt Wodeton is just into the field, but vulnerable to possible latecomers from the Group III ATC Pago Pago Stakes and Magic Night Stakes to be run this Saturday.