Orb scheduled for Florida Derby breeze

Stuart Janney III's Kentucky homebred Orb

will breeze Monday morning at Payson Park for trainer Shug McGaughey in his

next-to-last scheduled workout ahead of the Grade 1, $1 million Florida

Derby at Gulfstream Park on March 30.

"He'll work Monday and then blowout a little bit the next

Monday," McGaughey said.

The bay son of Malibu Moon ran into the Florida Derby

picture, and onto the Kentucky Derby Trail, with three consecutive victories, the last

two of which came at Gulfstream while training all winter with McGaughey's Payson Park-based

division.

Orb broke his maiden going a mile at Aqueduct on November 24

and then won a 1 1/8-mile allowance over the Gulfstream track on January 26.

Turning back in distance a sixteenth of a mile for the Grade 2 Fountain of

Youth on February 23, he rallied to score by a half-length over

heavily-favored and previously unbeaten Violence.

Later on the same day Orb was taking that Gulfstream allowance, Itsmyluckyday

and Shanghai Bobby finished one-two, respectively, in the Grade 3 Holy

Bull. The trio will all meet up in the Florida Derby as they are part of the roster

of 111 sophomores nominated to the nine-furlong contest.