Let's just hope that he gets to the gate in one piece and that, on the eve of the race, he's not abducted and extensively probed by Extraterrestrials...or that a South American Pigmy stowaway with mischief on his mind doesn't emerge from a carelessly left unlocked shipping container armed with a blow pipe and fire a posioned dart into his backside...or that the horse doesn't suffer some sort of a Demonic Possession episode or similar.