“I may have yelled at the screen a bit”

IF YOU’RE dining is a nice quiet restaurant and all of a sudden someone is yelling at a nearby television, chances are it’s Michael Stanley.

Enjoying a relaxing evening with his family and friends, Stanley admits broke the tranquil atmosphere just before 9:30 last night – and for good reason.

Stanley was watching Rock N Roll Doo contest the Paleface Adios Stake at Club Menangle, with the gelding causing an upset in the Group Two.

“I interrupted our nice dinner to watch the race and may have yelled at the screen a bit,” Stanley said. “It was a super run and he showed everyone just what he is capable of.

“I knew he could do it all along, in fact, I was very confident before The Bonanza last week but we blew that one.

“It’s just good for the horse to show people what he is made of as it is easy for me to say he is elite, but until people actually see it, it’s a different story.”

With Luke McCarthy in the sulky, Rock N Roll Doo was caught four-wide from 12 before working forward to test the leader, Krug, from the ‘death seat’.

Bullocking his way to the front halfway along the home straight, the son of Rock N Roll Heaven completed a powerful three-and-a-half metre win from Krug.

Chevron Art was a metre-and-a-half away third.

By stretching his record to seven wins and five placings from 20 starts, with four-year-old’s earned a berth in next week’s Chariots Of Fire.

“Luke will stay on him for the Chariots,” Stanley said. “During the past couple of years due to Covid when couldn’t go up Luke has been driving for me and we’ve had a remarkable strike rate.

“In my opinion Luke is best driver in Australia and is clearly best driver at Menangle so it makes sense to keep him on.

“Hopefully he can draw well, but not too well like the inside where he has chase up…he is best when can take a couple hundred metres to balance up.”