There will be no Triple Crown winner this year. He became official on Tuesday when the sovereignty coach Bill Mott told the officials of Preakness Stakes that the Kentucky derby winner will not run in the second stage of the triple crown and will rather point to the Belmont Stakes.
“We have received a call from coach Bill Mott that sovereignty will not participate in the Preakness,” said Mike Rogers, executive vice-president of the Stronach group, in a press release. “Bill informed us that they would point to the challenges of Belmont. We produce our congratulations to the ties of sovereignty and respect their decision. ”
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He opens the door to Rodriguez, the BOB BAFFET-Caréfi that scraped the derby because of a tender shoe. The winner of the Wood Memorial will probably be the favorite unless Journalism Run in the second stage of the triple crown. Journalism coach Michael McCarthy has still not announced the next race for the winner and finalist of the Santa Anita Derby in Kentucky Derby.
Buffete has won the preakness eight times. He said on Sunday that the horse's hoof was fine and that the 3 -year -old foal was ready for Baltimore.
“We are going to break this weekend (in Churchill Downs), then ship to Pimlico,” said slack.
Generally, the winner of Kentucky Derby takes place in Preakness even if it was not until two weeks later. Horses tend to run once a month, although the race again in two weeks was common in the past, but training and racing methods have changed in recent years, because the business model has passed more from the breeding race.
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Michael Banahan, director of Bloodstock for Godolphin, owner and breeder of sovereignty, appeared in the radio program “At the Racs” with Steve Byk on Monday.
“We fully respect what the triple crown for industry means for the race in America,” said Banahan. “More importantly, the decision will be made to do what is best for the horse.
The last winner of Kentucky Derby to jump the Preakness Stakes was a strike rich in 2022. Before Country House in 2019, the derby winner, when the maximum security was disqualified, jumped the preakness because of a cough. He has never run again. His coach: Mott.
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It was more than two decades before Country House when a horse did not go to Preakness. Grundone jumped the 1996 race because of a knee bone chip.
This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times.
