Uncle Mo, the champion 2-year-old male of 2010, continues to exhibit positive signs of improving health and is on target to resume light training in about 10 days, WinStar Farm president and racing manager Elliott Walden said June 7.

Owned by Mike Repole and trained by Todd Pletcher, Uncle Mo has been at WinStar Farm near Versailles, Ky., since May 9 when he was shipped from Churchill Downs after being scratched from the Kentucky Derby. The week of May 29, after undergoing a biopsy, he was diagnosed with cholangiohepatitis, which is a disease that affects the liver.

Since his time at WinStar, Uncle Mo’s appetite has improved considerably and his weight has increased steadily. When he arrived, the bay colt was 1,083 pounds, and as of June 7 he weighed in at 1,162 pounds.

His energy level also has improved gradually, and the morning of June 7 he was playfully running around his one-acre paddock, where he spends most of the morning grazing. Uncle Mo’s coat, lackluster and dull when at Churchill, now has much better color and for the first time since he has arrived at WinStar is showing signs of dapples