LEXINGTON, Ky. – Louisiana Derby winner Girvin, who missed a work last weekend while recovering from a quarter crack in his right front hoof, breezed five furlongs in company in 59.60 seconds Saturday at Keeneland in his final work before the Kentucky Derby. Girvin won the Louisiana Derby on April 1 and returned to the work tab April 15 at his Trackside training center base in Louisville, working a bullet four furlongs. However, he missed a planned work last weekend, a few days after vanning to Keeneland from Trackside. Saturday’s breeze marked his first trip to the racetrack in five days, after he had already been limited to jogging for consecutive days. “As long as he stays like he is now, he's definitely on track to run in the Derby,” trainer Joe Sharp said after the work. “He showed today he didn't lose any fitness.” Sharp left nothing to chance, riding out Girvin’s workmate, Hotfoot, most recently eighth in the Louisiana Derby. Former jockey Rosie Napravnik, Sharp’s wife, piloted Girvin.   “That way, I was able to jog the wrong way with him and evaluate his soundness all the way around to make sure we felt good about turning around [to breeze],” Sharp said. “And next to him, you can see a lot more when you’re looking them in the eye.” Girvin, working inside of Hotfoot, reeled off early splits of 12 seconds, 24, 36, and 48. Girvin powered away from Hotfoot in the lane – although Sharp was standing slightly in his irons coming to the wire – and continued on past his official clocking to gallop out around the turn and into the backstretch in 1:13.60 and 1:28.60 for seven furlongs. “It was an exceptional work, one of the best works I've ever seen him have, and Rosie said the same thing,” Sharp said. “There was a point in the turn where I told Rosie to slow down a little bit, and she said, ‘I don’t think we’re going that fast.’ He was doing it so effortlessly, galloped out beyond good, and he seems to be cooling out well.” Girvin had not trained on the track since jogging with a stable pony last Monday – the day his previously scheduled breeze had already been postponed to. He had also jogged on Sunday. On Tuesday, Girvin was shipped to Rood and Riddle Equine Hospital in Lexington to be seen by noted equine podiatrist Raul Bras, who replaced a Z-bar shoe on the colt's right front foot with a bar shoe designed specifically to suit his foot. Although the quarter crack currently being treated is in the right front, Sharp confirmed that Girvin is wearing bar shoes on both front feet. “He had an old quarter crack in the left front,” Sharp said. “It’s been no issue, it’s completely grown out, but Raul felt that making them both even and stabilizing them [was best].” Sharp said the main concern with the quarter crack is keeping it clean – to that end, Girvin’s foot was wrapped after returning to the barn – and that Girvin would wear the bar shoes until Derby Day. Sharp then will speak with Bras about which shoes Girvin should have for the Derby. “I'll leave that up to Raul,” Sharp said. “He's got a lot more experience and seen a lot more of those than anyone I've been around, and he's not in the Hall of Fame for nothing.” Girvin has paid multiple visits to the hyperbaric chamber at the KESMARC rehabilitation facility in nearby Versailles to aid in the healing of his foot. He swam in KESMARC’s equine pool on Thursday and Friday, and Sharp did not rule out a return to the facility during Derby week, prior to arriving at Churchill Downs at the Wednesday deadline. “We’re going to take advantage of KESMARC’s facility while we’re here,” he said. As the Kentucky Derby qualifying points leader through prep season, Girvin’s status has been closely monitored this week by the connections of other horses looking to get into the field. Lookin At Lee is 21st on the points list, just outside the main body of the field, but he is expected to get into the Derby if Malagacy officially defects, as expected. After Lookin At Lee, next on the points list are Sonneteer and Royal Mo, both of whom are intended runners for the race if they can get in.