The "Riders Up" call has been given. “My Old Kentucky Home” has been sung and the 151st Kentucky Derby is in the books. Watch the finish.

Sovereignty reigns at the 2025 Kentucky Derby. Sovereignty, with jockey Junior Alvarado aboard, emerged victorious in 2:02.31 during the first leg of horse racing's 2025 Triple Crown over the 19-horse field, which galloped through thick mud at Churchill ...

With Sovereignty in the books as the 151st Kentucky Derby winner, the question shifts to: Will he forge on to try to win the Triple Crown? And who might he face in the Preakness Stakes?

Saturday's 151st running of the Kentucky Derby also serves as the start to the Triple Crown watch season, one of the hardest feats to achieve in horse racing for 19 different 3-year-old horses and ...

Sovereignty will not run May 17 at Pimlico Race Course, becoming the fourth Derby winner in the past seven Triple Crown seasons to miss the Preakness.

Several of the horses in the 2025 Kentucky Derby field have famous sires. Among the contenders are the sons of two Triple Crown winners, one other Derby victor and the most prolific sire of the last decade. Stellar bloodlines alone are not a guarantee of ...

Junior Alvarado, who rode Sovereignty to victory at the Kentucky Derby earlier this month, has been fined and suspended for the overuse of his whip during the race.

A week ago today, May 3, 2025, jockey Junior Alvarado led Sovereignty to victory in the 151st running of the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs. Just a few days later, trainer Bill Mott revealed Sovereignty wouldn't be running in the 150th Preakness Stakes,