Morton Fink's two-time Horse of the Year Wise Dan rolled off the trailer with a spring in his step May 21 at Charlie and Amy LoPresti's Forest Lane Farm near Lexington, Kentucky, seemingly none the worse for wear after undergoing emergency colic surgery at nearby Rood & Riddle Equine Hospital.

The six-time Eclipse Award winner was bright-eyed and on the muscle, and appears to have lost little of his conditioning despite the May 16 scare

"I'd have thought this horse—what he's been through—he'd have lost 50 pounds," Charlie LoPresti said. "They took such good care of this horse; you couldn't imagine."

Wise Dan, who weighed 1,195 pounds before his surgery for a flipped small intestine, weighs between 1,185 and 1,190 now, having lost only 5 to 10 pounds

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