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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.
Not every trainer is convinced bypassing the Preakness is the prudent path to follow with a top 3-year-old colt.
See the full field, with odds and post positions, for the 150th edition of the Preakness Stakes, which will be run Saturday in Baltimore.
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.
Sovereignty will not run May 17 at Pimlico Race Course, becoming the fourth Derby winner in the past seven Triple Crown seasons to miss the Preakness.
Sovereignty, winner of the Kentucky Derby (G1), will not run in the May 17 Preakness Stakes (G1) at Pimlico Race Course. Instead, he will be pointed toward the June 7 Belmont Stakes (G1) at Saratoga Race Course.
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 ...
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.
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Paulick Report on MSNSports Talk Host 'Mad Dog' Russo Unleashes On Decision Not To Run Sovereignty In PreaknessOn 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.'