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.

Just a few days after winning the Kentucky Derby, Sovereignty was ruled out of running in the Preakness Stakes.

On the first Saturday in May, Sovereignty won the Kentucky Derby in front of 147,406 people at Churchill Downs.

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.

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

Journalism and Baeza, who placed second and third at the Kentucky Derby, respectively, are not yet confirmed to be racing in the Preakness and Belmont Stakes. Sovereignty was initially an 8-5 ...

The jockey of the Kentucky Derby-winning horse Sovereignty has been fined $62,000 for using his riding crop too many times.

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.

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.

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.'