Dual Horse of the Year Wise Dan is recovering well from emergency colic surgery with his trainer Charlie LoPresti confident it is not the end of the seven-year-old’s career.

However LoPresti says the setback will keep the winner of ten G1 races sidelined for six to eight weeks.

Wise Dan was taken to a Lexington equine hospital on Friday after he began to exhibit signs of discomfort following a routine gallop.

He underwent surgery to correct a flip in a portion of the small intestine and came out of the operation without complications.

"He's been absolutely great. He's been pounding his hay net and he's really great, he's back to his old self,” Lopresti said.

"I can tell you when I saw him I didn't know he'd had colic surgery, I would have never known it.

”The thing is now if he doesn't have a recurrence, he'll be all right.

”If everything went right he should be back to me in four to five days."

LoPresti is still deciding where he will take Wise Dan to recover. He could go to the trainer's stables at Keeneland or to his Forest Lane Farm.

"Where I'll take him, I'm still deciding," LoPresti said. "I have to let them tell me if he can hand graze or not."