Junior Alvarado was given a $62,000 fine and suspended for two upcoming racing days for striking Sovereignty eight times with his riding crop during the Kentucky Derby.

Kentucky Derby winner, Sovereignty, will not participate in the Preakness Stakes, the second leg of the Triple Crown.

Not every trainer is convinced bypassing the Preakness is the prudent path to follow with a top 3-year-old colt.

Sovereignty won the Kentucky Derby by 1 ... and you want the career to last more than five weeks.” Mott said the Belmont Stakes — the final leg of the Triple Crown on June 7 — is an ...

Sovereignty will skip the second leg of the Triple Crown. He's the first Kentucky Derby winner to skip the Preakness Stakes since Rich Strike in 2022.

The Kentucky Derby betting favorite on May 3 is the morning-line favorite for the Preakness Stakes on Saturday. But the colt that won the Kentucky Derby isn’t at the Preakness Stakes.

Sovereignty won’t attempt to reign over the Triple Crown. In what is a sign of the times and a new, modern approach to horse racing, the 2025 Kentucky Derby winner is skipping the Preakness Stakes, instead focusing on the Belmont Stakes at Saratoga next month.

There will be no Triple Crown winner this year after Soverignty's trainer, Bill Mott, told Preakness Stakes officials he will not run at Pimlico Race Course.

There will be no Triple Crown winner in horse racing this year. Sovereignty, the three-year-old thoroughbred who won the Kentucky Derby on Saturday, will not race in the Preakness Stakes – the second leg of the three races that make up the Triple Crown.

On Sirius XM show, Russo calls racing a "sport dying for some juice! It's got three days a year where it has a little energy.'