LOUISVILLE, Ky. � Sovereignty won the 151st edition of the Grade 1, $5 million Kentucky Derby on Saturday night in Louisville, besting a field of 19 horses beneath the Twin Spires on a sloppy track at Churchill Downs.
Trained by Bill Mott and ridden by Junior Alvarado, Sovereignty went off at 7-1 odds.
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