IF they aren't fit now they are never going to be in time for tomorrow's marathon 10-race card at Sha Tin.
Yesterday's Sha Tin track session was all about trying to glean from their work which horses were still improving and which may have gone over the top.
Geoff Lane has had a fantastic season and will be extra keen for a winner tomorrow to take him to a new personal best tally of 27. His Heavily Armed could be just the job.
The strapping Irish import has been one of the most impressive of this season's crop of private purchases in his trackwork - it may even turn out that he's the best of the lot.
He was going along really smoothly and clocking fast times without seeming to come under undue pressure before making a winning debut where he was drawn 11 of 11, missed the start, hung out and yet still managed to win going away from the highly progressive Manor Lord over Sha Tin's 1,200-metre trip in the style of a Class One performer in the making.
Last Saturday he was noted working really powerfully under Declan Murphy, notching a very fast middle section and then forging strongly to the line without being asked a serious question.
