MIAMI - Florida Derby runner-up Majesto will bid south Florida adieu and head on to Churchill Downs after breezing a mile in 1:44.41 on a warm and muggy Thursday morning at Gulfstream Park West.

With regular exercise rider J.J. Delgado aboard, Majesto broke off at the six-furlong pole, posted splits of 26.07, 50.62 and 1:15.98 to the wire, then continued around the clubhouse turn in what looked more like a gallop-out to complete the mile where he began at the top of the backstretch. He was under just light urging from the eighth pole to the finish line.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Mohaymen, the forgotten horse on the trail to the 142nd Kentucky Derby, gave a reminder that he’s still in the running for the May 7 race when he breezed a half-mile Wednesday at Churchill Downs in a snappy 46.80 seconds.

Trainer Kiaran McLaughlin, who was on hand for the work, told Churchill publicity that Mohaymen accomplished just what was needed in his first breeze since a disappointing fourth-place finish in the April 2 Florida Derby. Mohaymen arrived Sunday from his winter base in Florida.

In the 141 runnings of the Kentucky Derby, no jockey has ever won the race in three consecutive years, but Victor Espinoza will get a chance to be the first on May 7 when he pilots Whitmore, a mount he secured on Wednesday as the dominoes fell for riders on four Derby runners.

WHO’S HOT

Brody’s Cause

Giant’s Causeway – Sweet Breanna, by Sahm

($350,000 purchase by Albaugh Family Stables at 2014 Keeneland September yearling sale)

Trainer Dale Romans calls Blue Grass Stakes winner Brody’s Cause a “prototype” Kentucky Derby horse – and the Giant’s Causeway colt certainly has the class in his pedigree to back it up.

Victor Espinoza will ride Whitmore in the May 7 Kentucky Derby, Shagaf will have the comebacking Joel Rosario aboard, and Irad Ortiz Jr. moves to My Man Sam, the trainers of those runners said Wednesday.

Ortiz had ridden Whitmore to a third-place finish in the Arkansas Derby last Saturday. His main client is trainer Chad Brown, so he is sticking with that camp. Ron Moquett, the trainer and co-owner of Whitmore, said Espinoza had the mount.

Espinoza has won five of the last six Triple Crown races aboard California Chrome and American Pharoah.

Grade 3, $150,000 Lexington Stakes; 1 1/16 miles; Keeneland; April 16, 2016
(10 Derby qualifying points for a win, 4 for second, 2 for third, 1 for fourth)

Winner: Collected, by City Zip
Trainer: Bob Baffert
Jockey: Javier Castellano
Owner: Speedway Stable LLC
Beyer Speed Figure: 90

Grade 1, $1 million Arkansas Derby; 1 1/8 miles; Oaklawn; April 16, 2016
(100 Derby qualifying points for a win, 40 for second, 20 for third, 10 for fourth)

Winner: Creator, by Tapit
Trainer: Steve Asmussen
Jockey: Ricardo Santana Jr.
Owner: WinStar Farm LLC
Beyer Speed Figure: 96

The scoreboard watching as to who’s in and who’s out for the Kentucky Derby on May 7 at Churchill Downs began in earnest on Monday and produced the first significant development when Cupid, who finished 10th as the favorite in the Arkansas Derby, was ruled out of the race by trainer Bob Baffert.

Baffert said Cupid emerged from the Arkansas Derby with an entrapped epiglottis and was to have surgery Monday at Rood and Riddle Equine Hospital in Lexington, Ky.

Cupid, who finished 10th as the favorite in the Arkansas Derby on Saturday, is out of consideration for the Kentucky Derby after being found to have an entrapped epiglottis, for which he was to have surgery Monday at Rood and Riddle Equine Hospital in Lexington, Ky., trainer Bob Baffert said Monday.

Baffert said Cupid would go to Churchill Downs after the surgery and, assuming he recovers quickly, would be pointed to the Preakness on May 21 at Pimlico.

His defection moves Mo Tom into the top 20 on qualifying points. Fellowship becomes the bubble horse.