Coach James Cummings says Visitors Warden is ok to characterize Godolphin in The Everest after reporting to stewards the colt had been concerned in a secure mishap.

Cummings reported to Racing NSW Stewards Visitors Warden had sustained minor abrasions to his hocks final Thursday.

“He took fright, slipped, acquired a scrape, it’s a great distance from his coronary heart,” Cummings mentioned.

“He’s completely high quality, however we’re simply being on the entrance foot to do the suitable factor given the concentrate on the race.

“The vets will come on Monday, they’ll come on Friday, and I’ve been round lengthy sufficient to know if they arrive they usually see on Monday there’s a bit of little bit of spray, they’ll say, ‘what’s this, why didn’t you inform us?

“He’s recent and has labored superbly and we’re delighted with him for subsequent week.”

Visitors Warden enters Saturday’s $20 million race a match, mature three-year-old.

He resumed his three-year-old season taking out the Group 2 Run To The Rose (1200m) at Rosehill on September 14 earlier than ending second to stablemate Broadsiding within the Group 1 Golden Rose (1400m) at Rosehill two weeks later.

That got here off a protracted two-year-old marketing campaign that began in Sydney in December forward of a win at Caulfield previous to Christmas earlier than Visitors Warden went on to compete competitively via the Sydney Autumn Carnival.

It included an unfortunate fourth within the Group 1 Golden Slipper and an in depth second within the ATC Sires’ Produce Stakes.

“I really like the truth that he hit the bottom working this prep as a three-year-old,” Cummings mentioned.

“His run within the Run To The Rose was glorious and it’s a superb race as a projection for what a three-year-old may need acquired to supply.

“The horse flesh within the enclosure for the Run To The Rose was very spectacular, and he was finest on floor, so he’ll head to the Everest a mature three-year-old dropping to 53 kilos below the weight-for-age scale.

“Weight-for-age is weight-for-age, there’s no hiding in it, and he’s going to want to butter up in opposition to some robust horses.

“There’s fairly numerous mares on this 12 months’s Everest, greater than beforehand and an amalgamation of promising three-year-olds, of which he’s certainly one of 4, offered Storm Boy runs.

“I feel he (Visitors Warden) goes to be a hazard.”

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