No 2025 Triple Crown: Sovereignty Skips Preakness for Belmont

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00:00Horse racing, we understand this. Triple crowns are hard to win. That is the Kentucky Derby,

00:04that's the Preakness, followed by the Belmont. The one thing that we usually have the luxury

00:08of Joe Waniere is we all get excited because the bigness of the Kentucky Derby, the fashion,

00:12the horses we hear about for a couple weeks, we watch it play out in front of us. And there is a

00:16champion of the Kentucky Derby, which was Sovereignty. So immediately we go, all right,

00:21Preakness is on in a couple weeks. Can we have a triple crown contender that can at least

00:25make it to the Belmont? And yesterday news came down that Sovereignty will skip the Preakness

00:30and now target the Belmont. So my question to you is this, as we start here,

00:36if Sovereignty's goal is, hey, I want to win the Kentucky Derby, which is great. And for the owners,

00:41the trainers, you get it. And I just want to go off into the sunset and make money with studies.

00:46That's great. You shouldn't be, in my term, you should not be able to skip the Preakness

00:51and then parachute back into the Belmont and say, well, I want two of the legs at that

00:55point and make even more stud fees. If you are in it all the way through, like you can't even,

01:00Joe, for me, and I don't even know if this is a rule or not, can you say, I'm not going to run

01:04in the Kentucky Derby, but I'm going to run in the Preakness? Can you actually do that?

01:09Yeah. And yes, absolutely. You know, you have to qualify for certain rays. And listen,

01:15the problem with Donnie is that, you know, go back a couple of decades with the Alidars and the

01:23Secretariats and the way horse racing used to be is that these horses, when they got to the Kentucky

01:30Derby and already raced six times in that year as a three-year-old, it wasn't their second or third

01:39or just fourth race. These horses these days are not bred and they are not raced to be able to go

01:47through a race every two weeks, which is basically what you have to do. That's not what these horses

01:54have been bred to do anymore. It's basically either one and done or I'll try two of the three legs and

02:02we'll see how that goes. And listen, it could be a million reasons why money, of course, being,

02:08I'm sure, at the top of the reason list, but there could be a million reasons why they don't want to go

02:13to the Preakness. It could be, maybe it's too much on the horse. Again, a horse that's run what,

02:19four times, five times in his life all of a sudden now is going to run three races in five weeks. I

02:25mean, you're asking them, you're asking a horse to do something and it's much more risky these days

02:31to have a horse do that gauntlet there and expect them to be okay on the outside. Plus the money's

02:39turning bank. You won the Kentucky Derby. So if you're a horse that's bred for longer distances,

02:44which they must feel sovereignty is, then hey, two out of three legs, still a pretty good payday

02:50when it's all said and done. But you can't risk a horse if you don't think it's in its best interest

02:56in order to be able to race because the triple crown is alive and well.

02:59Well,

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