Sovereign of Kentucky Derby winner will not run in the preakness issues, officials announced on Tuesday, which means that there will be no triple crown champion for a seventh consecutive year.
“We have received a call from the coach Bill Mott today 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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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. Mott on Sunday morning had prefiguring to skip the prerequisite in the name of long -term interests.
“We want to do what is best for the horse,” he told journalists at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky. “Of course, you always think of a triple crown, and it is not something that we will not think of.”
Sovereignty has won a muddy derby with Jockey Junior Alvarado In disagreement of 7-1 by passing the favorite journalism on the section.
Bloodstock's American director of the owner Godolphin, Michael Banahan, has postponed an explanation to Mott in an SMS sent to the Associated Press, calling him as a team decision that “the two think it is the right direction for the horse in the future.” A message left for Mott was not immediately returned.
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This is the fifth time that Justify has won the three races in 2018 that the Preakness will continue without a real blow to a triple crown. High winning campaign house and maximum security, which was disqualified for interference, everyone did not participate in 2019, the races were within the reach of the order in 2020, formed by Bob Baffert The mind of the medina was dq'd For a positive screening test in 2021 and long -term Rich Strike was maintained in 2022 To rest for the five weeks previously planned.
Mage finished third in the preakness in 2023, and Mystik and was second Last year after its owner and coach were also initially reluctant To run it. 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 eminent owner Mike repole earlier Tuesday Published on social networks A proposal to move Belmont to the second row of the order of Triple Crown, four weeks after the Kentucky Derby and bring the preakness more to keep the best horses involved more.
“The preakness taking place two weeks after the Kentucky Derby, in this new day and this age in the race, shows the lack of vision and leadership necessary to develop this sport,” wrote Repole. “I expect the three best ends in this year derby to jump for the preakness and go directly to Belmont.”
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No decision was made on second -class finisher journalism, which was the derby favorite, or third place Baeza for the 150th preakness race, the last on the Pimlico Race Race before He is overturned and rebuilt. The plan is that the Preakness 2026 takes place in Laurel Park between Baltimore and Washington while Pimlico is under construction.
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