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Kentucky Derby winner, Sovereignty, will not participate in the Preakness Stakes, the second leg of the Triple Crown.
Saturday's Preakness Stakes, second jewel of the Triple Crown, drew only three of the 19 Kentucky Derby starters, but the race nonetheless has plenty of interesting facets.
The Kentucky Derby betting favorite on May 3 is the morning-line favorite for the Preakness Stakes on Saturday. But the colt that won the Kentucky Derby isn’t at the Preakness Stakes.
Sovereignty, the winner of the 2025 Kentucky Derby, will not race in the Preakness Stakes in Baltimore next week, meaning there will not be a Triple Crown winner for the seventh year in a row.
Beaten by Sovereignty in the Kentucky Derby, Journalism is favored to get the job done in the 150th running of the Preakness Stakes.
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