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Past winner looking to become Cup-winning sire.

Fiorente will forever be a part of Melbourne Cup history but, providing Lunar Flare overcomes the leg issue that has flared on race eve, the 2013 winner has a shot at joining an even more select group this Tuesday.

The son of Monsun will become just the seventh Melbourne Cup winner to sire a winner of the great race if Lunar Flare is able to win.

Grand Flaneur, the 1880 Melbourne Cup champion, became the first winner to produce a winner when his sons Bravo and Patron won in 1889 and 1894 respectively.

Malua, the 1884 victor who produced 1891 winner Malvolio, was the other to achieve it in the 1800s, while Comedy King, Spearfelt and Marabou all did it in the first century of the Melbourne Cup.

The only horse to have done it since was 1971 winner Silver Knight, who was the sire of 1984 winner Black Knight.

Fiorente is the only Melbourne Cup-winning stallion represented in this year's race.

Based at Widden Stud in Victoria, Fiorente is one of nine entires to win the Melbourne Cup this millennium and the only one standing at stud in Australia following Americain's death earlier this year.

Shocking, the 2009 Cup winner who stands at Rich Hill Stud in New Zealand, is the only other Cup winner at Stud in the Southern Hemisphere with Dunaden (2011), Green Moon (2012), Protectionist (2014) and Rekindling (2017) all taken back north of the equator to fulfil stud duties.