diff --git a/lib/Doctrine/Query.php b/lib/Doctrine/Query.php
index 382e9b946..b9042fa61 100644
--- a/lib/Doctrine/Query.php
+++ b/lib/Doctrine/Query.php
@@ -855,6 +855,9 @@ class Doctrine_Query extends Doctrine_Query_Abstract implements Countable
 
         foreach ($this->parts['orderby'] as $part) {
             $part = trim($part);
+            $e = Doctrine_Tokenizer::bracketExplode($part, ' ');
+            $part = trim($e[0]);
+
             $aggregate = false;
 
             foreach ($this->parts['select'] as $select) {
diff --git a/tests/Query/MysqlSubqueryTestCase.php b/tests/Query/MysqlSubqueryTestCase.php
index 0e94c3fd0..144642de8 100644
--- a/tests/Query/MysqlSubqueryTestCase.php
+++ b/tests/Query/MysqlSubqueryTestCase.php
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ class Doctrine_Query_MysqlSubquery_TestCase extends Doctrine_UnitTestCase
         $this->conn = Doctrine_Manager::getInstance()->openConnection($this->dbh);
     }
 
-    public function testGetLimitSubqueryWithOrderByOnAggregateValues()
+    public function testGetLimitSubquerSupportsOrderByWithAggregateValues()
     {
         $q = new Doctrine_Query();
         $q->select('u.name, COUNT(DISTINCT a.id) num_albums');
@@ -53,8 +53,22 @@ class Doctrine_Query_MysqlSubquery_TestCase extends Doctrine_UnitTestCase
 
         $this->assertEqual($this->dbh->pop(), 'SELECT DISTINCT e2.id, COUNT(DISTINCT a2.id) AS a2__0 FROM entity e2 LEFT JOIN album a2 ON e2.id = a2.user_id WHERE (e2.type = 0) GROUP BY e2.id ORDER BY a2__0 LIMIT 5');
     }
+    public function testGetLimitSubquerySupportsOrderByWithAggregateValuesAndDescKeyword()
+    {
+        $q = new Doctrine_Query();
+        $q->select('u.name, COUNT(DISTINCT a.id) num_albums');
+        $q->from('User u, u.Album a');
+        $q->orderby('num_albums DESC, u.name');
+        $q->groupby('u.id');
+        $q->limit(5);
 
-    public function testGetLimitSubqueryWithOrderByOnAggregateValuesAndColumns()
+        $q->execute();
+
+        $this->dbh->pop();
+
+        $this->assertEqual($this->dbh->pop(), 'SELECT DISTINCT e2.id, COUNT(DISTINCT a2.id) AS a2__0 FROM entity e2 LEFT JOIN album a2 ON e2.id = a2.user_id WHERE (e2.type = 0) GROUP BY e2.id ORDER BY a2__0 DESC, e2.name LIMIT 5');
+    }
+    public function testGetLimitSubquerySupportsOrderByWithAggregateValuesAndColumns()
     {
         $q = new Doctrine_Query();
         $q->select('u.name, COUNT(DISTINCT a.id) num_albums');