Dual US Horse of the Year Wise Dan turned in his first breeze of the summer season at Saratoga on Friday as he progresses toward a return in the G2 Fourstardave Handicap on August 9.

The seven-year-old gelding was credited by clockers from the New York Racing Association with a four-furlong breeze over the Oklahoma turf training course in 49.12. It was the second breeze in his recovery from colic surgery in May, coming after he worked at Keeneland in Kentucky the previous week.

“I just wanted to build on the breeze at Keeneland," said trainer Charlie LoPresti.

"He went really good, and I was really happy with him - in hand the whole way, never asked for anything."

Earlier this year Wise Dan won the g1 Maker's 46 Mile at Keeneland and the G1 Woodford Reserve Turf Classic at Churchill Downs, both for the second year in a row, taking his record to 21 wins - 10 of them in G1 events - and two seconds from 29 starts for earnings of $6,802,920.

The six-time Eclipse Award winner will be going for his third straight victory in the Fourstardave, a race he won in 2012-13 before eventually taking the Breeders' Cup Mile each year.

"I'd like him to have two more works and I don't think that's going to be a problem," LoPresti said.

The trainer had mentioned possibly working Wise Dan on the dirt, a surface he has not raced on since he finished runner-up finish in the 2012 Stephen Foster Handicap.

He won the G1 Clark Handicap on the dirt at Churchill in 2011.

"I'm just going to take every breeze as it comes. Nothing's set in stone,” he said.

“He was really happy, he pranced all the way and he's eating up well."