SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. − Trainer Albert Stall was planning to return Whitney Handicap winner Blame to the worktab Saturday. Blame had other ideas.

Believing Blame was a bit too full of himself, Stall called an audible and worked Blame an easy half-mile in 50.50 seconds Thursday morning over the Oklahoma training track. Under exercise rider Randi Melton, Blame went his first quarter in 25.51 seconds and his second quarter in 24.99. He galloped out five furlongs in 1:04.57.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - A rematch between Blame and Quality Road will have to wait until the Breeders’ Cup Classic at Churchill Downs on Nov. 6. The top two finishers from Saturday’s thrilling Grade 1 Whitney Handicap at Saratoga are headed their separate ways for their next starts.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Quality Road and Blame, the two main protagonists for next Saturday’s Grade 1 Whitney Handicap at Saratoga, put in workouts just minutes apart Sunday over the main track.

As has become his custom, Quality Road worked effortlessly fast, going five furlongs in 59.93 seconds under exercise rider Patti Barry. Meanwhile, Blame, working in company with stablemate Heritage Hall, worked four furlongs in a relatively easy 48.83 seconds under jockey Garrett Gomez.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Believing that Mine That Bird got nothing out of his race in the Firecracker Handicap on July 4, trainer D. Wayne Lukas on Wednesday put a stiff mile workout into the 2009 Kentucky Derby winner in preparation for a start in the Grade 1 Whitney Handicap at Saratoga on Aug. 7.

With his regular rider Calvin Borel in the irons, Mine That Bird worked a mile – one full lap around the Oklahoma training track – in 1:40.14, picking up scheduled company for the final half-mile of the breeze.