Gold Cup winner Mr Fisk has surgery for condylar fracture

Mr Fisk, pulled up on the turn after winning Monday’s Grade 2 Hollywood Gold Cup at Santa Anita, underwent successful surgery on Tuesday to stabilize a condylar fracture, trainer Bob Baffert said on Wednesday.

Baffert said the surgery required the insertion of two stabilizing screws, and that the injury will need four months to heal.

“It went well,” Baffert said. “It was routine. He’s back at the barn. He looks bright.

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“It takes four months to heal that. We’ll reevaluate what we’ll do with him.

“He came out of it fine, and that’s the good news.”

Owned and bred by Sunny Brook Farm, Mr Fisk has won 5 of 11 starts and earned $369,700. The $201,000 Gold Cup at 1 1/4 miles was Mr Fisk’s longest start and his fourth stakes win in his last five races.

On April 20, Mr Fisk won the Grade 3 Californian Stakes at 1 1/8 miles at Santa Anita in his first start since a fifth-place finish in the Grade 2 San Pasqual Stakes in January.

Kazushi Kimura rode Mr Fisk in the Californian and Gold Cup.

In the Gold Cup, Mr Fisk closed from fifth in a field of seven to take the lead in the final furlong, winning by 2 1/4 lengths over stablemate Reincarnate. Mr Fisk was vanned to Baffert’s stable after being pulled up.

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