With Orb, It's Still Wait and See Shug McGaughey has been guided by the condition of his horse throughout his Hall of Fame career. He is not about to change now as he debates whether Orb, his first Kentucky Derby champion who finished a disappointing fourth in the Preakness, should compete in the Belmont Stakes on June 8. "We're going to give him every opportunity to run, but we don't have to," McGaughey said on Saturday morning at Belmont Park. There are some pretty good races down the line. The Preakness represented the fifth start of the season for Orb, who made four starts as a 2-year-old. McGaughey likes what he is seeing in the horse's condition since he returned to his home base after competing in the mile and three-sixteenths middle leg of the Triple Crown on May 18 at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore. "He came out of the race fine," McGaughey said. He got back up here in good shape. He looks good. His energy level has been good. McGaughey noted, though, that recent heavy rain limited Orb to light training over muddy surfaces. With the weather forecast to improve, he believes he will be able to get a better read on Orb, a son of Malibu Moon, in the coming week. If all goes well, he plans to give the colt a formal workout next Sunday at Belmont as the final gauge of his readiness for the mile-and-a-half Belmont.