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For the seventh consecutive year, there will be no winner of the triple crown.
Only a few days after winning 151st Kentucky Derby, the sovereign coach Bill Mott, announced that the horse would jump the preakness next Saturday to focus on the Belmont Stakes.
“We have received a call today from coach Bill Mott that sovereignty will not participate in the Preakness,” said Mike Rogers, executive vice-president of 1 / St Racing, who operates the Preakness. “We produce our congratulations to the ties of sovereignty and respect their decision.”
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Sovereignty, mounted by the Junior Alvarado, crosses the finish line to win the Kentucky Derby 151st race in Churchill Downs, Saturday May 3, 2025, in Louisville. (Photo / jeff dresserson)
Mott told Preakness officials that the plan will be to enter sovereignty in the Belmont Stakes, the third gem of the Triple Crown, on June 7 at the Saratoga race race in the northern New York State. Sunday morning, Mott had prefigured the fact of jumping the preakness in the name of long -term interests.
“We want to do what is best for the horse,” Mott told journalists at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky. “Of course, you always think of a triple crown, and it is not something we will not think of.”
The two -week reversal of Kentucky Derby at Preakness and changes in modern races have sparked a debate on sport on the spacing of the races. The derby generally takes place on the first Saturday in May, with the Preakness two weeks later, then the Belmont three weeks after that.
Sovereignty crossed 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 eminent owner Mike is back on Tuesday on social networks on Tuesday, a proposal to move Belmont to the second row of the triple order of the Crown, four weeks after Kentucky Derby and bring the preakness more to keep the best horses involved.
This is the third time that Justify has won the triple crown in 2018 that the winner of Kentucky Derby did not run in Pimlico, joining Rich Strike in 2022 and Country House (also formed by Mott) in 2019. In 2020, the hopes of a triple crown were destroyed before the Preakness. Due to planning changes caused by the pandemic, it was actually the last stage of the triple crown.
Junior Jockey Alvarado famous after led sovereignty to victory during the 151st Kentucky Derby race on Saturday May 3, 2025. (Photo / abbie parr)
Sovereignty has crossed the finish line at Churchill Downs at 2: 02.31. It was the second victory for Mott derby in his career.
