Anthony Cummings has declared four-year-old Road To Rock is now ready for next week's Sandown Classic after he returned to winning form in Saturday's Chris Isaak Handicap at Flemington.Cummings said it had taken longer than usual to get the Encosta De Lago entire to his peak and he believes that he is not there yet despite his three-quarter length win over Ballack with Banana Man a head away third in Saturday's 2000m race."He is a fairly robust horse and has taken a bit of racing and work to get

Anthony Cummings has declared four-year-old Road To Rock is now ready for next week's Sandown Classic after he returned to winning form in Saturday's Chris Isaak Handicap at Flemington.

Cummings said it had taken longer than usual to get the Encosta De Lago entire to his peak and he believes that he is not there yet despite his three-quarter length win over Ballack with Banana Man a head away third in Saturday's 2000m race.

"He is a fairly robust horse and has taken a bit of racing and work to get to his peak this time in," Cummings said.

"Actually I'm not sure he is there yet."

Road To Rock was having his seventh run this campaign which kicked off at the end of August.

Mark Zahra rode him for luck from back in the field and the breaks came for him at the right time unlike a year ago when the jockey was nursing breaks of a different kind.

Zahra was then in hospital with a broken left wrist and two broken bones in his lower right leg after Bay Story broke a hind leg in a race on Melbourne Cup day.

Zahra said that Road To Rock was an improving horse and predicted better wins ahead of him after Saturday's gallant effort.

"When a few horses rolled up outside us early it made it hard to come out so I just had to take inside runs and he sprinted through the gaps well," Zahra said.

Saturday's win was only Road Top Rock's second in 16 starts after he landed the Listed Carbine Club Stakes in Sydney in April.

"I don't think his spring is finished yet," Cummings said.

"He's got a pedigree that says he will get over ground and there is a chance he will go to Sandown next week for the Classic (2400m).

"He has only got one stakes race to his credit so far and we would like to improve on that."