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.

See the full field, with odds and post positions, for the 150th edition of the Preakness Stakes, which will be run Saturday in Baltimore.

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.

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.

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

“Bill informed us they would point toward the Belmont Stakes.” Sovereignty chased down 7-2 favorite Journalism to win at Churchill Downs this past Saturday on a sloppy track, but Mott ...

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.'