With all the preps for the Kentucky Derby complete, I sat down with the past performances of the Derby’s probable starters on Thursday to try to get a feel for the major pace players and how the race might unfold. What follows are some of my conclusions.

◗ There appears to be only two true speedballs in the expected field – San Felipe Stakes winner Danzing Candy and Wood Memorial winner Outwork. Outwork has only won on the lead, and Danzing Candy has done his best running either on the lead or pushing the early leader.

Use him for a windbreak, a coat rack, a barn doorstop. It doesn’t matter to California Chrome as long as you set him free in his paddock for most of the day and have a bag of Mrs. Pastures horse cookies handy on demand.

In fact, the 2014 Horse of the Year and freshly minted Dubai World Cup winner has become one of the main attractions of the suddenly booming Kentucky horse-farm-tour business, which means Taylor Made Farm in Nicholasville is a hot spot on the itinerary of any tour bus worth its biofuel.

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