Monday morning's missed work had to be made up for yesterday with a number galloping in readiness for this evening's Happy Valley meeting headed by the Ivan Allan-trained No Excuses.
Allan has generally upped the work tempo for this three-year-old New Zealand-bred son of Justice Prevails who has quickly fallen to a rating of 30 in the middle of Class Five.
Yet he's always shown something in his work and his races - a bit of speed here and a bit of speed there - to suggest that he can be placed to advantage by his astute mentor.
The increase in the intensity of his work indicates he might just pop up at a big price this evening. After all he is blinkered for the first time, up to a mile for the first time and has Basil Marcus on top.
Yesterday he came through his half-mile hitout in 49.0 seconds and should be able to put up a much more forward showing.
Tony Millard put a gentle canter into his Only The Brave who contests the same Classes 4 & 5 event as No Excuses. It's going to be tough for Only The Brave from barrier 14 but Millard does have him working as well as ever.
Prodigy, who now gets a run in the sixth following the late scratching of Bon La Vie, clocked a nice 800 metres under Wendyll Woods and in company with Inventor and Rangeela in 49.4.