Oceanport, NJ (My Sportsbook) - Probable favorite Big Brown posted a six- furlong workout at Aqueduct for next Sunday's Haskell Invitational. Big Brown was one of three Haskell invitees to workout Saturday morning around the country.

Big Brown, the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes winner, skipped over the Aqueduct strip in 1:10 4/5 for six-furlongs. The Haskell will be the colt's first race since his unexplained last place finish in the Belmont Stakes,

Training over the Monmouth Park track on Saturday was hard-luck colt Atoned. Trained by Todd Pletcher, Atoned worked a half-mile in :50 flat over the Jersey Shore strip. Madeline Sciametta, wife of Pletcher assistant trainer Anthony Sciametta, Jr., was aboard as Atoned galloped out five-furlongs in 1:01 3/5, and went six-furlongs in 1:16.

Atoned has finished second a total of seven times in 12 lifetime starts. He was the runner-up in his last two starts, the Spend A Buck and Long Branch Stakes both at Monmouth.

Pletcher will be trying for an unprecedented third straight Haskell victory with Atoned. Last year Pletcher saddled Any Given Saturday to victory and in 2006 Bluegrass Cat picked up the win.

At Churchill Downs, Nistle's Crunch, trained by Ken McPeek, covered five- furlongs in 1:00 3/5 over the main track.

The colt, bred by his owners Michael Harrison and Dr. Alan Furst, is coming off a second-place finish in the Colonial Turf Cup on June 21.

"His only bad race this year was the Florida Derby," Harrison said. "He was just too fast early that day and tired."