For the seventh year in a row, there will not be a Triple Crown winner. Just days after winning the 151st Kentucky Derby, Sovereignty's trainer, Bill Mott, announced that the horse will skip the ...

"We received a call today from trainer Bill Mott that Sovereignty will not be competing in the Preakness," Mike Rogers, executive VP of 1/ST, which operates the Preakness, said in a statement.

Mott, who first won the Derby with long shot Country House under unusual circumstances via disqualification in 2019, had the best horse in the field on Saturday.

The morning after his second Kentucky Derby victory, trainer Bill Mott wasn’t ready to commit to pursuing a run at the Triple Crown with Sovereignty. “We want to do what’s best for the horse,” Mott ...

Bill Mott can say it with his chest now. Sovereignty captured the 151st running of the Kentucky Derby, marking the first time Mott has watched his horse cross the finish line first. Mott was awarded ...

It would be a nice, tidy story if Bill Mott could tell people now ... wire first is a different animal.” So is Sovereignty — and so is Mott. In a sport where the characters on the ...

Sovereignty captured the 151st running of the Kentucky Derby on Saturday, May 3, at Churchill Downs, finishing with a time of 2:02.31 in the sloppy conditions and securing a spot in racing history.

Bill Mott can say it with his chest now. Sovereignty captured the 151st running of the Kentucky Derby, marking the first time Mott has watched his horse cross the finish line first. Mott was ...

It would be a nice, tidy story if Bill Mott could tell people now that when he ... “But crossing the wire first is a different animal.” So is Sovereignty — and so is Mott. In a sport where the ...

Mott said he expects Sovereignty suffered the injury when getting ... horse is the right thing for him,” Banahan said. “Give Bill a few days with his team to assess and see how he’s doing.