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.

Just a few days after winning the Kentucky Derby, Sovereignty was ruled out of running in the Preakness Stakes.

Mott is a Preakness victory away from taking the career Triple Crown, but the 71-year-old trainer won't have a chance to win it with Sovereignty, opting instead to hold the colt out until the Belmont Stakes.

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.

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.

This is the fourth time since Justify won all three races in 2018 that the Preakness will go on without a true shot at a Triple Crown.

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

It didn’t take long for trainer Michael McCarthy to approve the proposal to run Kentucky Derby (G1) runner-up Journalism in the 150 th Preakness. McCarthy flew back to Louisville, Ky. from his base in Southern California to take a look at Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners,