DON'T go asking Geoff Lane's new jockey Dean McKeown about things that go bump in the night.
He had the fright of his life after returning home to his wife and three young girls after racing at Happy Valley on Wednesday.
They had just downed the hot chocolate, read the bedtime stories and were drifting off to sleep well past midnight when, all of a sudden, there was a spine-chilling hammering on the front door.
''These three guys were making a right noise,'' said McKeown. ''I don't mind admitting that it was more than a bit worrying.
''I went downstairs to investigate and couldn't make out what they were saying.
''I reckon I could have taken one of them but three was asking a bit much. The wife and kids would have had to run out the back door.'' They would have done, had it not been the police making the racket.