Montauk, the impressive debut winning 2-year-old, has been shipped to south Florida and will focus on a 3-year-old campaign, trainer Todd Pletcher said Friday.

Montauk, a son of Medaglia d’Oro, won his debut at Belmont on Oct. 7 by 11 1-4 lengths, running seven furlongs in 1:22.97 and earning a Beyer Speed Figure of 87. After briefly being considered for the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile, the ownership group _ which includes Robert LaPenta, Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners and Twin Creeks Racing _ decided to skip that race and focus on trying to get the horse to the Florida Derby on March 31 and then, hopefully, the Kentucky Derby.

Montauk was nominated to the Grade 2, $200,000 Nashua Stakes, a one-turn mile race at Aqueduct, on Nov. 5.

“We felt like in recent years the Nashua [and] Remsen haven’t proven to be key prep races for the objectives we hopefully have for him,” Pletcher said. “We felt like we wanted to keep him fresh and kind of work our way back from the May target and felt like the best way to do that was to focus down there.”

Always Dreaming, this year’s Kentucky Derby winner, came to Pletcher after he got beat in a maiden race at Saratoga in August of 2016. Always Dreaming began his 3-year-old campaign in January with a maiden win at Tampa Bay Downs before winning an allowance race and the Florida Derby at Gulfstream.

The 2018 $1 million Florida Derby is run on March 31 at Gulfstream Park. The series of stakes races for 3-year-old at Gulfstream begins on Jan. 6 with the $100,000 Mucho Macho Man, and continues with the Grade 2, $350,000 Holy Bull on Feb. 3 and the Grade 2, $400,000 Fountain of Youth on March 3.