Sovereignty wins 2025 Kentucky Derby

Sovereignty took location the Kentucky Derby connected Saturday successful Louisville.

There was a bumpy commencement connected the inside, with Bob Baffert's Citizen Bull successful the pb early, and Journalism, the morningline favorite, not adjacent the top.

Sovereignty had really been mode successful the back, not making a determination until adjacent the last turn.

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Sovereignty #18, ridden by jockey Junior Alvarado crosses the decorativeness enactment to triumph the 151st moving of the Kentucky Derby astatine Churchill Downs connected May 03, 2025 successful Louisville, Kentucky. (Alex Slitz/Getty Images)

Into the last stretch, Neoqueros, astatine 42-1, was adjacent the top, but Sovereignty and Journalism some came up front.

After moving neck-and-neck, Sovereignty edged retired the favorite. Journalism opened astatine 3-1 and closed astatine 7-2.

It was trainer Bill Mott's 2nd Kentucky Derby triumph - helium besides has a triumph from 2019 with Country House aft Maximum Security was disqualified for swerving into the paths of different horses.

Kentucky Derby entrant Sovereignty works retired astatine Churchill Downs Thursday, May 1, 2025, successful Louisville, Ky.  (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

It was a bedewed time astatine Churchill Downs, arsenic fans filled the stands with ponchos successful the rain.

Saturday marked the instrumentality of Baffert astatine the Run of the Roses aft missing each of the erstwhile 3 races owed to a suspension from 2021 Derby victor Medina Spirit’s failed a cause trial (the equine died that December).

According to The Courier-Journal successful Louisville, Kentucky, each the horses who ran the contention are descendants of the famed racehorse Secretariat.

Sovereignty, ridden by Junior Alvarado, crosses the decorativeness enactment to triumph the 151st moving of the Kentucky Derby equine contention astatine Churchill Downs Saturday, May 3, 2025, successful Louisville, Ky.  (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

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Secretariat sired much than 660 registered foals during the horse's life. He won the Derby with a clip of 1:59.40, a grounds that's yet to beryllium beaten.

Fox News' Jackson Thompson contributed to this report.

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