Sovereignty Wins, Journalism Places, Baeza Shows
The post Sovereignty Wins, Journalism Places, Baeza Shows appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Plowing Through The Mud, Baby: Sovereignty flies across the line to win the 151st running of the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs on Saturday, May 3, 2025, in Louisville. (Ryan C. Hermens/Lexington Herald-Leader/Tribune News Service via Getty Images) TNS Up to his canon bones in the Churchill mud, Sovereignty delivered a stretch run of grand intensity to run down the favorite Journalism, snatching a commanding one-and-a-quarter length victory in the $5-million Kentucky Derby on Saturday in Louisville. His time was a, for this slop, fast 2:02.31 for the mile-a-and-quarter. Going off at 7-1, Sovereignty had not been especially loved by the money and thus delighted the players that had him, paying $17.96 on a $2 bet. After being resoundingly passed by Sovereignty but before he got to the wire, Journalism found that he wasn’t quite done with his Kentucky Derby — there was one more battle to fight. Baeza had steamed away strongly from the sixteen runners swimming in the mud behind him and was blazing up outside, in the process of running Journalism down. Journalism was saved by the wire, with Baeza in show by a nose. If the race had been three strides longer, Baeza would have put the Derby favorite in show. On the gallop out past the finish, it was as if Baeza was looking to take on Sovereignty, just a length-and-a-half in front of him. He had nothing — not the distance, not the mud — bothering him. As an audition for the the Belmont Stakes, no run in the 151st Kentucky Derby brought the buzz of that late-running strength any better. Baeza’s amazingly tough performance, remarkably resembling his early-April stretch duel with Journalism at Santa Anita, came as a sweet irony for trainer John Shirreffs, who had patiently brought his colt as required by…
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Plowing Through The Mud, Baby: Sovereignty flies across the line to win the 151st running of the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs on Saturday, May 3, 2025, in Louisville. (Ryan C. Hermens/Lexington Herald-Leader/Tribune News Service via Getty Images) TNS Up to his canon bones in the Churchill mud, Sovereignty delivered a stretch run of grand intensity to run down the favorite Journalism, snatching a commanding one-and-a-quarter length victory in the $5-million Kentucky Derby on Saturday in Louisville. His time was a, for this slop, fast 2:02.31 for the mile-a-and-quarter. Going off at 7-1, Sovereignty had not been especially loved by the money and thus delighted the players that had him, paying $17.96 on a $2 bet. After being resoundingly passed by Sovereignty but before he got to the wire, Journalism found that he wasn’t quite done with his Kentucky Derby — there was one more battle to fight. Baeza had steamed away strongly from the sixteen runners swimming in the mud behind him and was blazing up outside, in the process of running Journalism down. Journalism was saved by the wire, with Baeza in show by a nose. If the race had been three strides longer, Baeza would have put the Derby favorite in show. On the gallop out past the finish, it was as if Baeza was looking to take on Sovereignty, just a length-and-a-half in front of him. He had nothing — not the distance, not the mud — bothering him. As an audition for the the Belmont Stakes, no run in the 151st Kentucky Derby brought the buzz of that late-running strength any better. Baeza’s amazingly tough performance, remarkably resembling his early-April stretch duel with Journalism at Santa Anita, came as a sweet irony for trainer John Shirreffs, who had patiently brought his colt as required by…
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