The Melbourne Cup winner in 2013, Fiorente (IRE) made his presence felt at the Cup Carnival this year when siring Power Scheme to win the Benchmark 90 event over 1600m on Saturday at Flemington.
Trained by the Lindsay Park team, Power Scheme was a last start winner at Caulfield and kept up the good work to make it back to back wins when scoring by a short neck in a driving finish for Melbourne Cup winning jockey Jye McNeil.
Bred and retained to race by Sun Bloodstock, Power Scheme was a Listed winner at two and has the overall record of four wins, two seconds and three thirds from 18 starts with earnings in excess of $450,000.
A brother to the top-class Hawkshot, the winner of the Group II MRC Autumn Stakes and runner up in the Group 1 Australian Guineas, Power Scheme is the third winner from as many to race from the Encosta de Lago mare Rosa Perlato, a daughter of stakes-placed Fiammarosa from the family of Group I winners Shindig and Shinzig.
Purchased for $41,000 from a Patinack Farm reduction in 2012, Rosa Perlato has a yearling colt by Thronum and foaled a full-sister to Power Scheme and Hawkshot on August 26 and has since been covered by Snitzel.
The Group 1 Melbourne Cup and Australian Cup hero Fiorente stands at Sun Stud for a fee of $17,600.
