WEIGHT can stop a train, or so the saying goes. Conversely there is a race for each and every horse in Hong Kong provided he falls far enough down the handicap scale.
Super Tension had been one of the standard bearers for Gary Ng Ting-keung during his formative first two seasons with a trainer's licence, winning five times and placing once.
But the chestnut flopped last campaign when those past successes caught up with him and he was at the wrong end of the weights.
This season Super Tension starts from a handy mark of 57 and his trackwork during these opening salvos at Sha Tin suggests that he has now dropped far enough in the ratings to be worth paying close attention to from a betting point of view.
In contrast to his current rating, he opened last season from a 77 yet yesterday he worked with all his old fluency, hitting the line in a very easy 25.6 seconds for his final 400 metres under Ng's stable apprentice.
The Lawrie Fownes-trained veteran handicapper, Money No Problem, is another who has plummeted down the ratings.