Within three weeks of moving in to his new yard, he'd saddled David Junior to win the Group 1 Dubai Duty Free and in the same year Red Rocks won the Breeders' Cup Turf.
"It took a couple of weeks to decide," said Meehan. "It was a big undertaking but at the end of the day you've always got to have a shot.
"You want better horses, more Group 1 winners and so on. Things have gone well and we hope to keep improving. It's the nature of the business we're in. It is a competition sport and if you don't keep trying to push it..."
Manton boasts arguably some of the finest grass gallops in the world but a cold winter and a bug in the yard has meant for a slow start to the season.
Meehan, who has saddled four Royal Ascot winners, hopes that at least one of his select team will triumph over the next three days when he sends his strongest runners to the meeting. With Colonel Carter, twice a winner this season, sold to Hong Kong for a tidy profit last week, the 42-year-old's best chances lie with Black Moth, Gallagher, Crowded House, Dangerous Midge and Swift Gift.
Black Moth, who runs in tomorrow's Norfolk Stakes, was a cosy winner of a Bath maiden on Oaks day and Meehan is bullish, despite his likely big odds.
He said: "He'd have a great chance. We thought about the Coventry Stakes but this looks his race."
Meehan is hopeful that Dangerous Midge will get into Friday's Listed Wolferton Stakes and said: "He had a bad scope after York when he disappointed over a mile and a half but he's back in good form now and he's a very reliable horse. He should get in, he's rated 97 and it's the perfect race for him."
The reliable and straightforward Victoria Cup hero Swift Gift will have a fair chance in the Buckingham Palace on Friday and there is growing faith that flashy chestnut Crowded House, a one-time Derby favourite, can land his first race since taking the Group 1 Racing Post Trophy for in October 2008.
"He's a possible for the Hardwicke Stakes on Saturday," said Meehan. "He's in good form. I was going to run him the other day in the Sandringham at Chantilly but he missed four days' work about three weeks ago. He's better now, though, and has been pleasing me in his work."
With 104-rated Gallagher expected to run well in Saturday's six-furlong Wokingham Handicap, Meehan has plenty of chances to keep the Champagne flowing at Manton - providing he doesn't give it all away, of course.
