''It's not ideal and he had lost weight on the trip over,'' Bary said yesterday. ''It's unfortunate that there is not another horse with him but that's the way it is and you just get on with it.''
The four-year-old, who has a mirror in his stall for ''company'', has bulked up and is within two kilograms of his weight before the trip from Australia.
Yesterday, in his last serious piece of work before the group 1 Hong Kong Mile (1600 metres) on Sunday, Jimmy Choux worked over 1400 metres, finishing off his last 200 in 11.5 seconds under race jockey Jonathan Riddell.
''I told Jonathan just to stretch his legs and he's probably gone a bit quicker than we thought,'' Bary said.
''He's done it well and pulled up fantastically. I don't know whether I'm more relieved or excited.''
■Melbourne Cup casualty Jukebox Jury is making a good recovery from a leg fracture and could leave Australia by the end of January.
He could yet get back to England in time to enter training for the Ascot Gold Cup in June. ''All is going really well,'' part-owner Colleen Bamford said yesterday.
Jukebox Jury was the second-highest-rated stayer among a record number of internationals in last month's Melbourne Cup but faltered in the last 350 metres and finished 20th.
