Aidan Butler went to battle, fighting to rework the Triple Crown’s coordinated calendar. The president of 1/ST racing, which owns and operates Pimlico Race Course, wanted to give Kentucky Derby participants ample time to recover rather than forgo the Preakness for the Belmont Stakes.

Kentucky Derby is in the books with Sovereignty holding off front-runner Journalism. Here's how it all went down.

The Kentucky Derby dates back to 1875. The annual event at Churchill Downs has produced a long list of photo finishes and special moments.

On one side are those who want the high-profile Triple Crown races spaced further apart to give horses time to recover. The second leg of the Triple Crown, the Preakness, is run two weeks after the first leg, the Kentucky Derby. The third leg of the Triple Crown, the Belmont Stakes, comes three weeks after the Preakness.

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?

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.