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No 2025 Triple Crown: Sovereignty Skips Preakness for Belmont
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5/8/2025
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Horse racing, we understand this. Triple crowns are hard to win. That is the Kentucky Derby,
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that's the Preakness, followed by the Belmont. The one thing that we usually have the luxury
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of Joe Waniere is we all get excited because the bigness of the Kentucky Derby, the fashion,
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the horses we hear about for a couple weeks, we watch it play out in front of us. And there is a
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champion of the Kentucky Derby, which was Sovereignty. So immediately we go, all right,
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Preakness is on in a couple weeks. Can we have a triple crown contender that can at least
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make it to the Belmont? And yesterday news came down that Sovereignty will skip the Preakness
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and now target the Belmont. So my question to you is this, as we start here,
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if Sovereignty's goal is, hey, I want to win the Kentucky Derby, which is great. And for the owners,
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the trainers, you get it. And I just want to go off into the sunset and make money with studies.
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That's great. You shouldn't be, in my term, you should not be able to skip the Preakness
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and then parachute back into the Belmont and say, well, I want two of the legs at that
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point and make even more stud fees. If you are in it all the way through, like you can't even,
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Joe, for me, and I don't even know if this is a rule or not, can you say, I'm not going to run
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in the Kentucky Derby, but I'm going to run in the Preakness? Can you actually do that?
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Yeah. And yes, absolutely. You know, you have to qualify for certain rays. And listen,
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the problem with Donnie is that, you know, go back a couple of decades with the Alidars and the
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Secretariats and the way horse racing used to be is that these horses, when they got to the Kentucky
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Derby and already raced six times in that year as a three-year-old, it wasn't their second or third
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or just fourth race. These horses these days are not bred and they are not raced to be able to go
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through a race every two weeks, which is basically what you have to do. That's not what these horses
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have been bred to do anymore. It's basically either one and done or I'll try two of the three legs and
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we'll see how that goes. And listen, it could be a million reasons why money, of course, being,
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I'm sure, at the top of the reason list, but there could be a million reasons why they don't want to go
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to the Preakness. It could be, maybe it's too much on the horse. Again, a horse that's run what,
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four times, five times in his life all of a sudden now is going to run three races in five weeks. I
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mean, you're asking them, you're asking a horse to do something and it's much more risky these days
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to have a horse do that gauntlet there and expect them to be okay on the outside. Plus the money's
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turning bank. You won the Kentucky Derby. So if you're a horse that's bred for longer distances,
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which they must feel sovereignty is, then hey, two out of three legs, still a pretty good payday
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when it's all said and done. But you can't risk a horse if you don't think it's in its best interest
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in order to be able to race because the triple crown is alive and well.
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Well,
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