SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Trainer Kenny McPeek on Friday will be able to run horses at Saratoga for the first time in three weeks. On Saturday, McPeek will be trying to play catch-up with a couple of his stable stars who will be competing in Grade 1 stakes they were not being pointed toward. Swiss Skydiver, last year’s Preakness and Alabama winner and 3-year-old female champion, will take on males in Saturday’s Grade 1, $1 million Whitney Stakes. It will be her first start since she finished third in the Apple Blossom in April. She scratched out of the Ogden Phipps at Belmont on June 5 due to a temperature. Swiss Skydiver had been pointing to the Shuvee here on July 25, but had to miss the race due to a quarantine of McPeek’s barn because a Jorge Abreu-trained horse tested positive for the equine herpesvirus. Abreu and McPeek share the same barn. The quarantine was announced late afternoon on July 15, but was retroactive to July 11, the day the horse first showed EHV-1 symptoms. McPeek ran three horses on the July 15 opening-day program here, but had not been able to enter horses since then until Sunday, the day the quarantine was lifted. Instead of being able to run against females in the Shuvee, Swiss Skydiver will now take on a solid field of males in the Whitney that includes Grade 1 stakes winners Knicks Go, Silver State, Maxfield and the Grade 2 winner By My Standards. “Is it ideal? I’d rather have run in the Shuvee,” McPeek said. “I really wanted to kick off her second half with what I thought would be a professional win. It’s not the way it unfolded. I’m kind of locked in here. I can’t go anywhere really because of the quarantine. I got a horse that is doing really well; it is a million dollars. It’s a high-level problem. It’s really the only race I’m eligible for unless I wanted to shift her to the turf.” On Sunday, Swiss Skydiver worked five furlongs in 1:01.21 over Saratoga’s main track with Irad Ortiz Jr. aboard. Ortiz will ride Swiss Skydiver for the first time in the Whitney. “I gave him instructions to go in a minute, he went in 1:01,” McPeek said. “He said it was a little heavy down at the three-eighths pole. He loved her. He said he tapped her on the shoulder on the gallop-out and she took off again, so I think she’s plenty fit for this. It should be an exciting race. She adds some intrigue to it.” McPeek wanted to run King Fury, the Lexington Stakes winner, in last Saturday’s Grade 2 Jim Dandy. Instead, McPeek will run King Fury in Saturday’s Grade 1, $1 million Saratoga Derby Invitational, a 1 1/4-mile race on turf. McPeek is using this as a way to get King Fury to the Travers on Aug. 28. On Sunday, King Fury worked five furlongs on turf in 1:01.25, in company with turf stakes winner Fighting Seabee. Jose Ortiz was aboard for the work. “Jose said he handled the turf good,” McPeek said. “He said he lost a little ground on the turn, but he was pleased with it for the most part. Once again it’s not ideal. I think he would have been competitive in the Jim Dandy. Worst case is we learn a little something about him, he gets a nice race under his belt, and it takes us to the Travers.” The Saratoga Derby will feature Bolshoi Ballet, the impressive winner of the Belmont Derby last month. Bolshoi Ballet, trained by Aidan O’Brien, arrived here over the weekend along with fellow European-based 3-year-olds Cadillac, a multiple group stakes winner trained by Jessica Harrington, Secret Protector (Charlie Appleby) and State of Rest (Joseph O’Brien). :: Visit DRF's Saratoga shop for all your handicapping needs: Past performances, picks, Clocker Reports, Betting Strategies, and more Over the weekend, McPeek expressed frustration with New York regulators for not allowing him to enter horses for races before Friday’s card, even though the quarantine had been lifted as of Sunday. State steward Braulio Baeza Jr. said the horses could not be entered while they were in quarantine. On Sunday, McPeek’s attorney, Drew Mollica, filed a request for a hearing with the New York State Gaming Commission seeking “clarity and any just relief” regarding the policy of not allowing McPeek to enter horses for races of Sunday, Wednesday, and Thursday.