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For the seventh consecutive year, there will not be a triple crown winner.
A few days after winning the 151st Kentucky derby, the sovereignty coach Bill Mott announced that the horse will jump the preakness next Saturday to focus on Belmont’s bets.
“We received a call today from coach Bill Mott that sovereignty will not compete in the preakness,” said Mike Rogers, executive vice president of 1/ST Racing, which operates the preakness. “We extend our congratulations to the connections of sovereignty and respect your decision.”
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The sovereignty, mounted by Junior Alvarado, crosses the finish line to win the Kentucky derby race in Churchill Downs, on Saturday, May 3, 2025, in Louisville. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
Mott told Preakness officials that the plan will be to enter sovereignty in Belmont Stakes, the third Joya of the Triple Corona, on June 7 in Saratoga Race Course in the state of New York. Mott on Sunday morning he had foreshadowed the preakness on behalf of the long -term interests.
“We want to do our best for the horse,” Mott told Churchill Downs journalists in Louisville, Kentucky. “Of course, you always think of a triple crown, and that is not something we are not going to think about.”
The change of two weeks from the Kentucky derby to the preakness and the changes in modern races have caused a debate about sport on spaceing the races. The Derby generally takes place on the first Saturday of May, with the preakness two weeks later, and then the Belmont three weeks after that.
The sovereignty crosses the finish line to win the 151st Kentucky Derby race in Churchill Downs on May 3, 2025. (Alex Slitz/Getty Images)
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The outstanding owner Mike Replace published a proposal to transfer Belmont to the second place in the order of the triple crown on the order of Kentucky and sliding the preakness backward with the aim of maintaining more of the best horses involved.
This is the third time since Justify won the Triple Crown in 2018 that Kentucky’s Derby winner did not run in Pimlico, joining Rich Strike in 2022 and Country House (also trained by Mott) in 2019. In 2020, the hopes of a triple crown faded before the bad. Due to the programming changes caused by the pandemic, it was actually the last stage of the triple crown.
Junior Jockey Alvarado celebrates after setting up the sovereignty to victory in the 151st Kentucky derby race, on Saturday, May 3, 2025. (Photo AP/ABBIE Parr)
Sovereignty crossed the finish line in Churchill Downs at 2: 02.31. It was Mott Derby’s second victory of his career.
