An ambitious spring campaign is underway for exciting Mark Kavanagh-trained galloper We're Gonna Rock after he scored a confidence-boosting win at Sandown's transferred meeting at Geelong.The four-year-old is nominated for the Caulfield Cup and Cox Plate and was tenacious as he took an inside run to score his second win in three starts when resuming in Wednesday's Ammon Ra Handicap (1000m).The win put the big, robust entire's racing career back on track after his last-start shock defeat when odd

An ambitious spring campaign is underway for exciting Mark Kavanagh-trained galloper We're Gonna Rock after he scored a confidence-boosting win at Sandown's transferred meeting at Geelong.

The four-year-old is nominated for the Caulfield Cup and Cox Plate and was tenacious as he took an inside run to score his second win in three starts when resuming in Wednesday's Ammon Ra Handicap (1000m).

The win put the big, robust entire's racing career back on track after his last-start shock defeat when odds-on favourite at Moonee valley in February.

He had won his race debut at Flemington in explosive fashion beating the previously unbeaten Marconi but finished at the tail of field at the Valley, beaten more than 13 lengths.

Kavanagh needed and expected We're Gonna Rock to bounce back at Geelong and was impressed with the way the $1.80 favourite charged to the line to score a three-quarter length win over Mo' Money and Forays.

"Certainly it was good to see him come through a field, go through the traffic, be held up and then accelerate and take a run," Kavanagh said.

"That will help get his rating up and we will put him in at 1200 metres next start or something like that and see where that takes us.

"It is all about getting his rating up so we can put him in a (good) race.

"He's a four-year-old and a 72-rater who has had three runs so he is going get balloted out of every race on a Saturday at the moment."

Kavanagh has long viewed We're Gonna Rock as a spring horse but admitted the Valley failure had put the skids under his confidence.

"Certainly it was character building," Kavanagh said.

"At Moonee Valley his legs just went everywhere which really bothered us a lot.

"That put a dampener on everything after expanding our chest after his first start.

"No-one has got excited about him over the winter but he has got 2000 metres in his pedigree and he's a pretty relaxed sort of horse although there is still a long way to go."

Jockey Michael Rodd said We're Gonna Rock was only going to get better as he was still learning about what was expected of him.

"He knows nothing," Rodd said. "He is still very, very raw.

"He didn't get going until I gave him a couple of backhanders and then he just rolled past the other horse. He wasn't in any hurry."

Kavanagh finished with a double after Sea Hunter, ridden by stable apprentice Billy Egan, landed the Lucknow Handicap (2200m).

But Egan was in Kavanagh's bad books after the stable was denied the chance of a treble when the previously unbeaten Cat's Pyjamas ($1.90 fav) pigrooted soon after the start of the Wild Rose Handicap (1000m), losing up to a dozen lengths and trailing in last.

Kavanagh blamed the size of her saddle, which shifted causing the problem to the four-year-old mare who had won at Bendigo and Caulfield at her two other starts.

"He used the same saddle he used on Sea Hunter ... but it didn't suit and didn't fit Cat's Pyjamas as it did Sea Hunter," Kavanagh said.