Champion sprinter Lost in the Fog has an inoperable tumor in addition to the large one found this week on his spleen and may have no more than two weeks to live, trainer Greg Gilchrist said Aug. 18.

The popular colt, owned by Harry Aleo, has been at the University of California at Davis’ Large Animal Clinic since Sunday when he was sent there with what was believed to be a slight case of colic. A sonogram discovered that his spleen was covered by a mass the size of a football.

“We went in and did a little camera search looking for more cancer outside the spleen (Friday),” Gilchrist told TVG. “He has two or three more tumors in there in bad places. They’re inoperable. I’m sorry to say it’s just the bottom of the ninth for Lost in the Fog.

“There are no choices as far as him going on. His life is pretty much over. The horse is not in excruciating pain. He’s not writhing or having a terrible time. But, the best you can put it is he’s just uncomfortable. Not all of the time, but some of the time he seems to have these little bouts