For the second straight morning in Saratoga, more than 300 horses put in timed workouts over the three different tracks in Saratoga.

Among the bigger names to breeze were Mitole and Midnight Bisou, a duo that has combined to win their last 11 starts for trainer Steve Asmussen.

Mitole, the Grade 1 Metropolitan Handicap winner, worked five furlongs in 1:01.09 over the Oklahoma training track in preparation for a start in the Grade 1, $350,000 Alfred G. Vanderbilt on July 27.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. –  On to Chicago.

After winning his fourth straight Grade 1 Diana Stakes on Saturday with Sistercharlie, trainer Chad Brown will now set his sights on winning a fifth straight Beverly D. with the likes of Sistercharlie and Homerique headed to the Grade 1, $600,000 race at Arlington Park on Aug. 10.

Sistercharlie came off a 252-day layoff to win Saturday’s Grade 1, $500,000 Diana for a second consecutive year. Sistercharlie beat Rushing Fall by 1 3/4 lengths, ran 1 1/8-miles in 1:47.34, and earned a career-best Beyer Speed Figure of 105.

Cesar DeAlba, the retired Quarter Horse jockey turned Thoroughbred trainer, saddled his first winner with his fifth starter when Seven Oxen ($5.80) prevailed by two lengths in a $20,000 claimer for maidens at six furlongs at Los Alamitos on Saturday.

DeAlba retired from riding last December at Los Alamitos and had his first runner at Santa Anita in February. 

“It seems like it’s been a long six months,” De Alba said, reflecting on his career change.

United, a promising 4-year-old gelding trained by Richard Mandella, will have his first start of the Del Mar summer meeting in an allowance race with a $62,500 claiming option at 1 1/8 miles on turf in Wednesday’s second race.

United’s intended second start of the Del Mar summer meeting will be significantly more important. The optional claimer is designed as a prep race for the Grade 2 Del Mar Handicap at 1 3/8 miles on turf on Aug. 17, a $250,000 race Mandella described on Sunday as “very possible.”

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Point of Honor completed final preparations for next week’s Grade 1 Coaching Club American Oaks by breezing an easy half-mile in 49.03 seconds over the Oklahoma training track on Saturday.

Point of Honor has not run since rallying to a half-length victory in the Grade 2 Black-Eyed Susan on May 17 at Pimlico. She has had five works, all over the training track, since her last start.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Trainer Mark Casse wants to run Preakness winner War of Will in the Jim Dandy. But he only wants to run him if War of Will concurs.

Early Saturday morning, War of Will gave his stamp of approval on Casse’s plan with a strong five-furlong workout in 1:00.43 under jockey Tyler Gaffalione over Saratoga main’s track. Afterward, Casse said War of Will’s next start will be the Grade 2, $600,000 Jim Dandy Stakes here on July 27, the local steppingstone to the Grade 1, $1.25 million Travers on Aug. 24.

Beginning next Saturday on the Haskell Invitational card, Monmouth Park will increase purses 5 percent.

Thanks to a $10 million purse subsidy from the state this year, purses at Monmouth were already forecast to average $500,000 per race day this meet.

Dennis Drazin, chairman and CEO of Darby Development, which operates Monmouth on behalf of the New Jersey Thoroughbred Horsemen’s Association, said the purse increase was the result of strong business at the meet.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Trainer Ian Wilkes was a man on the move Friday.

Wilkes had just driven to Saratoga from Kentucky and then was headed to the Albany airport to fly back to the Midwest where he was to saddle With Dignity in Saturday’s Indiana Oaks. Following that race, Wilkes was headed back to Saratoga where on Sunday he was to start two horses on the card, including Bohemian Bourbon in the $100,000 Coronation Cup, a turf stakes for 3-year-old fillies.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Mia Mischief, among the leaders of the older female dirt sprinters in the country, worked five furlongs in 1:00.15 Friday morning over the Oklahoma training track. She is pointing to the Grade 2, $200,000 Honorable Miss Handicap here on July 24.

“She’s training so good,” trainer Steve Asmussen said.

Mia Mischief has won three of four starts this year, including the Grade 1 Humana Distaff and the listed Roxelena Stakes, both at Churchill Downs.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Listing and Comical, the two Southern California invaders who won opening-day stakes at Saratoga, are scheduled to ship back to California on Wednesday and could make their next start at Del Mar.

Listing, who won the Grade 3 Quick Call Stakes by a half-length over Elektronic, could run next in the Grade 3, $100,000 Green Flash at Del Mar on Aug. 17, said owner Paul Reddam.

“He’s definitely coming back,” Reddam said. “As far as his schedule goes, everybody dreams about the Breeders’ Cup so we’ll dream about it.”