Melbourne, August 12 – Boom four year-old We’re Gonna Rock resumed from a spell to score a stylish victory at the metropolitan meeting at Geelong on Wednesday.
When the Mark Kavanagh trained entire first stepped out to win brilliantly at Flemington back on December 19, he was immediately hailed a rising star, but a subsequent failure sent the trainer and his horse back to the drawing board.
Sent for a good long spell, We’re Gonna Rock resurfaced in the 1000 metre Ratings 78 event and ran up to expectation, finding the line strongly to win by the best part of a length as a short priced favourite.
“That will get his rating up a little bit,” Mark Kavanagh said. “We’ll probably get him to a 1200m now.
“It was good to see him come through a field in traffic, get held up and then be able to accelerate to win.”
A $180,000 purchase for his trainer from the Yarraman Park draft at the 2008 Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale, We’re Gonna Rock is the first foal of well related mare Harrow, a half-sister by Dehere (USA) to Group One winners Bluebird the Word and Porto Roca, who has been in the news this year as the dam of a Group winning three year-old in the UK in Monterosso.
