Sovereignty of the winner of Kentucky Derby to skip the prekness, dashing Triple Crown offers
The winner of Kentucky Derby, sovereign, will not appear in the Preakness Stakes, officials announced on Tuesday, which means that there will be no champion of the triple crown 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.”
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. Sunday morning, Mott had prefigured the fact of jumping the preakness 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 the Junior Jockey Alvarado in disagreement of 7-1 by passing the favorite journalism on the section.
Godolphin, based in the United Arab Emirates, owner of sovereignty. A call and a message sent by the Associated Press to the American director of Bloodstock de Godolphin, Michael Banahan, were not immediately returned.
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This is the fourth time that Justify has won the three races in 2018 that the Preakness will continue without a real blow to a triple crown. 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 is back on Tuesday on social networks on Tuesday, a proposal to move Belmont to the second row of the triple order of the Crown, four weeks after Kentucky Derby and bring the preakness more to keep the best horses involved.
“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.”
No decision was made on second -class finishing journalism or third place Baeza for the 150th series of Preakness, the last on the Pimlico race race before it was overturned and rebuilt.
