Moonee Valley specialist Hey Doc blew the cobwebs out with a potential first up winning gallop at The Valley on Monday morning.

Hey Doc is the winner of his only three appearances at The Valley and trainer Tony McEvoy is confident that his stable star will be very hard to beat there again in the Listed $120,000 SAJ Fruit Supply Carlyon Stakes (1000m) on Saturday.

McEvoy took Hey Doc to The Valley on Monday morning to let the five year old have a good blow out and he was happy with what he saw as compared to his previous gallop at Sandown.

“Hey Doc cruised around really strongly and I was much happier with his work today, he pulled up clean and is ready to go,” McEvoy told Racing.com.

“At Sandown the other day when I galloped him in between races he was very naughty, he wanted to over-do it and was a bit fresh … he pulled up stuffy because he didn’t breathe well and he did it all wrong.

“I said to Luke Currie ‘Let the cobwebs get out of him today’.

“It’s nice to have him back, he’s probably my pin-up horse for the stable having won two Group 1s for us.

The Group 1 $1m Ladbrokes Manikato Stakes (1200m) at The Valley during the 2017 Melbourne Spring Carnival was one of two Group 1 wins for the Hey Doc and McEvoy is aiming the five year towards that race again this Spring.

“This spring his aim is the Manikato Stakes again,” McEvoy said.

Hey Doc’s other Group 1 win came during his three year old season when he took out the 2017 $750,000 Australian Guineas (1600m) at Flemington during the Autumn Carnival.

Hey Doc missed most of the 2017 Autumn Carnival because of injury and will be facing the starter for the first time since finishing seventh to Redkirk Warrior in the Group 1 $750,000 Black Caviar Lightning (1000m) at Flemington on February 17.

McEvoy is certain that Hey Doc will benefit greatly from his first up run in the Carlyon Stakes but still expects him to figure in the finish.

“He had a long time off with these pectoral muscles (injury) and he’s 570kg now but I’ve really been struggling to get the weight off the big boy, he’s a big, heavy horse,” McEvoy explained.

“He’ll show improvement out of Saturday’s run but he has done plenty and he’s pulled up well enough this morning to win a 1000-metre race.”

Hey Doc is one of twenty-two horses nominated for the Carlyon Stakes and has been allocated the top weight of 60kg under the set weights plus penalties conditions for the race.

Nominations for the 2018 Carlyon Stakes (1000m)

#	Last 10	Horse	Sex	Age	Trainer	Ballot	Weight	Hcp Rating
1	96x1401x7x	HEY DOC	G	5	Tony McEvoy	1	60kg	112
2	47x281119x	QUILISTA	M	5	Darren Weir	2	57kg	105
3	6x9272123x	DOTHRAKI	G	8	Peter & Paul Snowden	3	58kg	106
4	1x38361x8x	JORDA	M	4	James Cummings	4	56kg	85
5	11111x224x	I’M WESLEY	G	6	Glenn Stevenson	5	57kg	98
6	1140x5620x	BONS AWAY	G	5	Ciaron Maher & David Eustace	6	57kg	99
7	0x632x128x	FAATINAH	G	6	David & B Hayes & T Dabernig	7	56kg	105
8	79x821158x	DEMONSTRATE	G	6	Allan & Jason Williams	8	56kg	95
9	63237×6351	CASHED	G	7	Ryan Balfour	9	56kg	89
10	x7231x6577	SUNDAY ESCAPE	G	8	Andrew Murray	10	56kg	89
11	220x28693x	MR SNEAKY	G	5	Anthony Freedman	11	56kg	100
12	x5112x933x	SUPER TOO	M	5	Marc Conners	12	54kg	99
13	21212×6311	BANDIPUR	H	4	James Cummings	13	56kg	89
14	156x5x6113	INVINCIBLE AL	G	5	Patrick Payne	14	56kg	87
15	31322×1152	SHOWPERO	M	5	Wayne Francis & Glen Kent	15	54kg	85
16	1134x1146x	DEMERARA	M	4	James Cummings	16	54kg	84
17	1911218x1x	MILE HIGH	G	5	John Macmillan	17	56kg	82
18	6039×69387	KHALAMA	M	6	Shane Nichols	18	54kg	80
19	L27327x16x	BALANCING ACT	M	5	Brent Stanley	19	54kg	77
20	x6111x4x5x	UNIQUE LOVELY	M	5	Frankie Stockdale	20	54kg	74
21	12154×9211	ALL ABOUT NICCI	M	6	Kym Hann	21	54kg	78
22	46x13318x4	HUGE ACTION	G	4	Andrew Sawden	22	56kg	68